---
title: Coolify
slug: coolify
url: "https://toolweight.com/options/coolify"
homepage: "https://coolify.io"
categories: vercel-alternatives
last_verified: 2026-06-15
license: CC-BY-4.0
---

# Coolify

> Open-source self-hosted PaaS: git push to your own server, with previews and cron.

Coolify turns a plain Linux box into something that behaves like Heroku: git-connected builds, automatic TLS through Traefik, preview deployments per pull request, scheduled tasks and one-click databases. You supply the server and the on-call rotation, and pay nothing for the software. A hosted control plane exists for a few dollars a month, but the servers are still yours and so is the pager.

## Identity

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Name | Coolify |
| Company | coolLabs |
| One-liner | Open-source self-hosted PaaS: git push to your own server, with previews and cron. |
| Site | https://coolify.io |
| Docs | https://coolify.io/docs |
| Repo | https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify |
| Founded | 2021 |
| Funding | Sponsorship-funded open source |
| Open source | Yes |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Brand | https://toolweight.com/vendors/Coolify |
| Compared in | 1 |

## Where it is compared

### [Vercel alternatives](https://toolweight.com/compare/vercel-alternatives)
Ranked **#1 of 13** on default weights.
| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified | Source | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frameworks | nextjs, nuxt, sveltekit, astro, dockerfile | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Next.js parity | self-managed | Inferred | - | - | You run the framework's own server, so nothing is missing except a CDN and a shared ISR cache. |
| Runtime model | container | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Fn timeout | - | Inferred | - | - | Whatever you configure in Traefik. |
| Cold start | 0 ms | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Cron jobs | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-06-15 | https://coolify.io/docs | Scheduled tasks are built in. |
| Preview deploys | ● | Inferred | - | - | Per-PR preview deployments with automatic subdomains, genuinely surprising for free software. |
| WAF & DDoS | ○ | Inferred | - | - | Nothing sits in front of your box unless you put Cloudflare there yourself, which most people do. |
| Observability | included-basic | Inferred | - | - | Container logs and host metrics, with no retention and no tracing. |
| Sydney region | ● | Inferred | - | - | Trivially, you choose the server, so you choose the country. |
| Monorepo support | ● | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Rollback | redeploy | Inferred | - | - | Redeploy a previous commit; images are not always retained. |
| Overage behaviour | throttle | Inferred | - | - | There is no meter to exceed. A traffic spike saturates the box and requests get slow or fail, you never receive an invoice for it. |
| Bandwidth price | - | Inferred | - | - | Entirely a function of the host you run it on; see the Hetzner + Coolify baseline row for a concrete figure. |
| Price @ 1 TB | - | Inferred | - | - | Depends on your server. The baseline row prices the common case. |
| Build minutes incl. | - | Inferred | - | - | Builds run on your own hardware, which is also the constraint: a 4 GB box will OOM building a large Next.js app. |
| Image opt billing | byo | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Analytics cost | - | Inferred | - | - | Deploy Plausible or Umami as another Coolify service. |
| Free tier | 5 | Inferred | - | - | The software is free forever; the hosted control plane is optional and cheap. |
| Self-hostable | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-06-15 | https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify | Apache-2.0. That is the entire point. |
| Exit friction | 1 | Inferred | - | - | Docker Compose underneath. Moving means pointing DNS somewhere else. |
| CLI quality | 2 | Inferred | - | - | There is a REST API and webhook deploys, but the dashboard is the product. |
| Agent/CI deploy | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | API and deploy webhooks work headlessly; initial server setup expects a human. |
| GA year | 2021 | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Funding | oss-community | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Pricing clarity | 5 | Inferred | - | - | Your invoice is a VPS invoice. It does not move. |

**Verdict.** Astonishingly complete for free software, previews, cron, TLS and databases all work, and one of only two rows where a traffic spike degrades instead of billing. What you take on is the pager, the disk-space alerts and the fact that nobody is coming to help at 3am.

## Alternatives

- [AWS Amplify Hosting](https://toolweight.com/options/aws-amplify), Managed Next.js and static hosting inside AWS, billed per GB with no spend cap.
- [Cloudflare Workers & Pages](https://toolweight.com/options/cloudflare-workers), V8 isolates on 300+ PoPs, with zero egress charges and near-zero cold starts.
- [Deno Deploy](https://toolweight.com/options/deno-deploy), Web-standard JavaScript at the edge, with built-in OpenTelemetry and a global KV.
- [Dokploy](https://toolweight.com/options/dokploy), Open-source self-hosted PaaS on Docker Swarm, with multi-node clustering built in.
- [Fly.io](https://toolweight.com/options/fly-io), Firecracker microVMs in 35+ regions including Sydney, driven from the CLI.
- [Hetzner + Coolify](https://toolweight.com/options/hetzner-coolify), The DIY baseline: a €4 CX22 running Coolify, with 20 TB of traffic included.
- [Netlify](https://toolweight.com/options/netlify), The original Jamstack host: strong build pipeline, punishing bandwidth overage.
- [Northflank](https://toolweight.com/options/northflank), Container platform with bring-your-own-cloud, GPUs and a sandbox-shaped API.
- [Railway](https://toolweight.com/options/railway), Container PaaS with the best developer experience in the category and usage billing.
- [Render](https://toolweight.com/options/render), Heroku-shaped container host with blueprints, managed Postgres and calm billing.
- [Sevalla](https://toolweight.com/options/sevalla), Kinsta's developer platform: apps, static sites, databases and object storage on GCP.
- [Vercel](https://toolweight.com/options/vercel), The frontend cloud that ships Next.js: best-in-class DX, metered everything.

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