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Coolify

Deploy apps, databases, and services to your own servers from one dashboard

  • Self-hosted alternatives
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What it is

Coolify is a self-hosted platform for deploying apps from Git, Docker images, or one-click templates. It is for developers who want the push-to-deploy feel of a hosted platform on servers they rent themselves. It handles SSL certificates, backups, and previews for pull requests.

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Stars
63,281 GitHub stars.
63,281

Forks
5,694
Commits
17,923
Contributors
500+
Language
PHP
License
Apache-2.0
Last commit
Oct 20, 2026
On GitHub since
January 2021
First release
March 2021
Platforms
web, Linux, self-hosted
Self-hostable
Yes
Alternative to
Heroku, Vercel, Netlify
Tags
  • containers
  • backup
  • deployment
  • ci-cd
  • monitoring
  • database

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What people are saying

Updated Oct 21, 2026
  • Hacker NewsCoolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternativeApr 2, 2025 · 382 points · 180 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsShow HN: Coolify v2 – Open-source and self-hostable Heroku/Netlify alternativeMar 30, 2022 · 158 points · 54 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsCoolify – Self-Hosting with SuperpowersOct 16, 2023 · 71 points · 17 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Coolify is an open source platform that helps you manage your entire web infrastructure on your own hardware. It's a self hostable alternative to services…”Sep 30, 2025 · 55 likes · 2 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsCoolify: Open-Source, Self-Hostable Alternative to Heroku/Netlify/VercelSep 30, 2024 · 35 points · 3 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“insane numbers - @coolify.io is approaching half a million self-hosted instances 🤯 coolify.io”Aug 4, 2026 · 24 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Open-source and free tools for coders. - Workspace for AI agents sevalla.com - Deploy apps without managing infrastructure directoryfinder.com - Directory of…”Aug 10, 2026 · 5 likes · 3 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Do you know Coolify? An open source alternative to Vercel”Dec 8, 2024 · 6 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsCoolify: Open-source, self-hostable Heroku/Netlify/Vercel alternativeJun 9, 2024 · 6 points · 1 comment (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Thank you sweep.dev for sponsoring coolify.io! 💜 They are doing an AI code assistant for Jetbrains IDE. Nice to see that it is not another VSCode AI assistant…”Nov 25, 2025 · 6 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“i believe there are PDS templates for both coolify.io and railway.app”Sep 19, 2025 · 6 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsCoolify 4.3.0Aug 12, 2026 · 4 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable alternative to platforms like Heroku, Netlify, and Vercel. Deploy and manage your apps with full control. #opensource”Mar 15, 2026 · 3 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“I am migrating slowly but surely away from Github to something less Microsoft-y and all those big techs. It means I need to find alternatives, and preferably…”Dec 23, 2025 · 1 like · 3 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“I just migrated a handful of websites to a self-hosted [Coolify]( instance, and wow, this is fantastic! I struggled a bit with figuring out the DNS stuff, but…”Nov 18, 2024 · 4 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsCoolifyJul 23, 2026 · 3 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Hacker News$1000 bounty to add a feature to coolifyNov 30, 2025 · 3 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsCoolify v5.x AnnouncementApr 24, 2025 · 3 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“GitHub - coollabsio/coolify: An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.”Apr 7, 2025 · 3 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“#shipit! 🚀 Coolify Self-hosted Heroku-Alternative: Deploy per Git-Push, Datenbanken, SSL & Monitoring — alles open source. Link: Self-hosted PaaS oder Cloud…”Aug 28, 2026 · 2 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)