Coolify
Open-source, self-hosted PaaS for deploying apps, databases and one-click services on your own servers.
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About Coolify
Coolify turns your own servers into a Heroku- or Netlify-style platform. You install it on a VPS or bare-metal machine, connect more servers over SSH, and then deploy applications from Git repositories, Dockerfiles or Docker Compose files, with automatic HTTPS, preview deployments for pull requests, webhooks and rollbacks. It can also provision databases such as Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB and Redis with scheduled backups to S3, and offers hundreds of one-click services like Plausible, n8n and Supabase. The software is open source under Apache 2.0 and free to self-host with no feature limits; Coolify Cloud is a paid hosted control panel that manages your servers for a small monthly fee per server. Coolify is popular with indie developers who want predictable costs on providers like Hetzner. The trade-off is that you are responsible for the servers, their security and uptime, and the project is maintained by a small team.
Best for: Indie developers who want a Vercel or Heroku workflow on cheap servers they control.
Pros and cons
What works
- Free and open source with no feature limits
- Preview deployments and automatic HTTPS
- Hundreds of one-click self-hosted services
Why people leave
- You manage server security, updates and uptime
- Small core team
- Multi-server setups take more care than a managed PaaS
Top Coolify alternatives
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Dokploy66.5Similar self-hosted PaaS with Docker Swarm support for multiple servers.
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CapRover62.6Long-running free self-hosted PaaS with one-click apps.
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Dokku59.6Minimal Heroku-compatible PaaS on a single server.
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Vercel57.2Fully managed hosting when you no longer want to run servers.
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Railway55.3Managed platform with a similar one-click database experience.
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Coolify: common questions
Is Coolify free?
Yes. Coolify is free, open-source software that you can host yourself.
Is Coolify open source?
Yes. The source code is on GitHub at coollabsio/coolify. You can also run it on your own server.
What platforms does Coolify run on?
Coolify is available for Self-hosted and Web.
What are the best alternatives to Coolify?
The highest-ranked Coolify alternatives right now are Dokploy, CapRover and Dokku. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.