What is Coolify?
An open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Heroku, Netlify, and Railway for deploying websites, databases, web applications, and 280+ one-click services to your own servers.
Coolify pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free self-hosted forever, or Cloud from $5/month
Self-hosted
FreeDeploy Coolify on your infrastructure without restrictions
- Full access to all features
- No limitations or restrictions
- Unlimited connected servers
- Unlimited team members
- Unlimited deployments per server
- Community support (21k+ members)
- Automated or self-managed updates
- All upcoming features free forever
- Database deployments
- Service/one-click deployments
- API access
- Custom domain support
Cloud
Managed Coolify infrastructure; connect your own servers from any cloud provider
- connected_servers_base
- 2
- Connect unlimited servers
- Unlimited deployments per server
- Managed Coolify infrastructure
- Managed backups
- Managed updates
- Email alerts
- Founder-tested updates
- Database deployments
- Service/one-click deployments
- API access
- Custom domain support
- Unlimited team members
What Coolify does
The capabilities that matter for paas & hosting, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Git-push auto-deploy
- ✓
- Deploy arbitrary container image
- ✓
- Per-PR preview environments
- ✓
- Build system
- Dockerfile
- Runtime / language breadth
- Any language and framework
- Autoscaling
- -
- Geographic reach
- Multi-region
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Bundled managed data services
- ✓
- Built-in global CDN / edge
- -
- Custom domains + automatic TLS
- ✓
- Env vars & secrets management
- -
- Instant rollbacks
- -
- CLI + deploy API
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Integrations (10)
Independently observed- GitHub
- GitLab
- Bitbucket
- Gitea
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Bitbucket Pipelines
- Discord
- Telegram
- S3
Coolify alternatives
Other paas & hosting we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- VercelAgentic Infrastructure to ship apps and agentslow · 49%
- NetlifyPush your ideas to the webmedium · 64%
- KoyebHigh-performance Infrastructure for APIs, Inference, and Databasesmedium · 60%
- RailwayThe all-in-one intelligent cloud providermedium · 62%
- DokkuThe smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seenlow · 21%
- Platform.shThe cloud application platform humans and AI agents lovemedium · 59%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Coolify, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 63 | 18.00 | 1135.8 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 12.00 | 973.8 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 96 | 10.00 | 955.6 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 30 | 16.00 | 479.2 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 90 | 5.00 | 450.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 30.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 22.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 26.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 59,957 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","regions":"multi","runtimes":"Any language and framework","cli_and_api":true,"build_system":"dockerfile","git_push_deploy":true,"preview_deploys":true,"container_deploy":true,"managed_databases":true,"custom_domains_tls":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 10 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | PHP | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 8 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |