Cloudflare Workers
Serverless functions that run on Cloudflare's global network, billed by CPU time.
Pricing FreemiumPaid from $5 a month minimum per accountOpen source noStars 9.1knpm a week 30M
Coolify alternatives
11 tools you can use instead of Coolify, ranked by live GitHub stars and npm downloads. Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare Pages and Vercel are the most used. Stats updated 5 hours ago.
Coolify is the self-hosted option, so the alternatives are managed platforms. Railway and Render deploy apps and databases from a Git repo, Fly.io runs apps close to users, and Vercel and Netlify suit web apps and sites.
When Coolify is not a good fit
Coolify is an open source, self-hostable platform for deploying websites, databases and applications to your own server, positioned as an alternative to managed platforms like Vercel, Heroku, Netlify and Railway. Self-hosting is completely free with full access to all features; Coolify also offers a paid Cloud version starting at $5 a month for those who don't want to manage the underlying server themselves.
It is a weaker choice for:
- Teams that don't want to manage or provision any servers at all, even with Coolify Cloud, which still requires connecting your own servers
- Projects that want a fully managed platform with no self-hosting component whatsoever
- Teams without the operational capacity to keep a self-hosted deployment platform patched and running
The alternatives
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Cloudflare Pages
JAMstack hosting platform with Git integration and unlimited bandwidth, deployed on Cloudflare's edge network.
Pricing FreemiumPaid from $20-$25 a month (Pro plan)Open source noStars 4.7knpm a week 30M
Vercel
Cloud platform for deploying web apps and frameworks like Next.js, with preview URLs and serverless functions.
Pricing FreemiumPaid from $20 a month for Pro, including one deploying seat and $20 of usage creditOpen source noStars 16.4knpm a week 5.3M
Dokploy
Open source, self-hostable platform as a service for deploying apps and databases with Docker.
Pricing Open sourcePaid from $4.50 a month per server for Dokploy Cloud HobbyOpen source yesStars 38k
AWS Amplify
AWS's platform for building and hosting full-stack web and mobile apps, priced pay-as-you-go.
Pricing Pay as you goPaid from $0.01 per build minute (Standard instance) beyond the free tierOpen source noStars 9.6knpm a week 2.2M
Netlify
Web platform for deploying sites and apps from Git, the CLI or AI agents, with functions, storage and Postgres.
Pricing FreemiumPaid from $9 a month for Personal (1,000 credits)Open source noStars 1.9knpm a week 476k
Railway
Usage-billed cloud platform for deploying apps, databases and cron jobs from GitHub or Docker images.
Pricing Pay as you goPaid from $5 a month for Hobby, including $5 of usageOpen source noStars 626npm a week 415k
Fly.io
Platform for running apps and databases close to users globally, billed by the second for compute used.
Pricing Pay as you goPaid from About $1.94 a month (shared-cpu-1x, 256MB, running continuously)Open source noStars 1.7k
Heroku
Platform-as-a-service for deploying apps as dynos, spanning classic Cedar dynos and newer Fir dynos.
Pricing PaidPaid from $5 a month (Eco dyno, Cedar)Open source noStars 886npm a week 16.3k
DigitalOcean App Platform
Platform-as-a-service for deploying apps from Git or a container registry, from a free static-site tier.
Pricing FreemiumPaid from $5 a month (Shared Fixed instance, 512 MiB)Open source no
Render
Cloud platform for deploying web apps, APIs, databases and background jobs from a Git repo.
Pricing FreemiumPaid from $25 a month for the Pro workspace plan, plus usage-based compute, bandwidth and storageOpen source no
Coolify and its alternatives, side by side
| Tool | Pricing | Free plan | Paid from | Open source | GitHub stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolify | Freemium | Yes: self-hosting Coolify on your own infrastructure is free forever with full access to all features | $5 a month for Coolify Cloud, connecting up to 2 servers | Yes, Apache-2.0 | 64.5k |
| Cloudflare Workers | Freemium | Yes: 100,000 requests a day and 10 ms of CPU time per invocation | $5 a month minimum per account | No | 9.1k |
| Cloudflare Pages | Freemium | Yes: 500 builds a month, 1 concurrent build, 100 custom domains per project, unlimited sites and bandwidth | $20-$25 a month (Pro plan) | No | 4.7k |
| Vercel | Freemium | Yes: Hobby, for personal and non-commercial use, with 100 GB of fast data transfer and 1 million function invocations a month | $20 a month for Pro, including one deploying seat and $20 of usage credit | No | 16.4k |
| Dokploy | Open source | Yes. Self-hosting is free. Dokploy Cloud is paid. | $4.50 a month per server for Dokploy Cloud Hobby | Yes, Apache-2.0, with a proprietary license for the /proprietary directories | 38k |
| AWS Amplify | Pay as you go | Yes: AWS Free Tier includes 1,000 build minutes, 5 GB storage and 15 GB data transfer a month for 12 months | $0.01 per build minute (Standard instance) beyond the free tier | No | 9.6k |
| Netlify | Freemium | Yes: 300 credits a month, with a hard limit and no option to buy more | $9 a month for Personal (1,000 credits) | No | 1.9k |
| Railway | Pay as you go | Yes: a 30-day trial with a one-time $5 credit, then a free plan with $1 of credit a month (0.5 GB RAM and 1 vCPU per service) | $5 a month for Hobby, including $5 of usage | No | 626 |
| Fly.io | Pay as you go | Limited free usage may be available for small workloads; primarily pay-as-you-go | About $1.94 a month (shared-cpu-1x, 256MB, running continuously) | No | 1.7k |
| Heroku | Paid | No free dyno tier; the lowest-cost Eco dyno starts at $5 a month | $5 a month (Eco dyno, Cedar) | No | 886 |
| DigitalOcean App Platform | Freemium | Yes: up to 3 apps with static sites and 1 GiB data transfer per app | $5 a month (Shared Fixed instance, 512 MiB) | No | None |
| Render | Freemium | Yes: the Hobby workspace plan, free services with 512 MB RAM and 5 GB bandwidth a month included | $25 a month for the Pro workspace plan, plus usage-based compute, bandwidth and storage | No | None |
Pricing facts come from each tool's official pricing page, with the checked date on the tool's own page.
Questions
What is the most popular alternative to Coolify?
By GitHub stars, Cloudflare Workers is the most used alternative to Coolify listed on ScratchDB, with 9.1k stars.
Which Coolify alternatives are open source?
Dokploy is open source.
Which Coolify alternatives have a free plan?
Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, Dokploy, AWS Amplify, Netlify, Railway, DigitalOcean App Platform and Render have a free plan. The table on this page shows what each one includes.