Is Coolify or Koyeb better?

Neither clearly leads. Coolify starts at Free and Koyeb at $29/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Coolify or Koyeb?

Coolify has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Coolify and $29/month for Koyeb.

Does Coolify or Koyeb run on more platforms?

Coolify runs on Web, Linux, Docker, Self-hosted. Koyeb runs on Web, CLI, API.

Can I use Coolify for free?

Yes. Coolify has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Koyeb starts at $29/month.

What is Coolify best used for?

Coolify is most often used for replacing a managed platform bill with a single hetzner or digitalocean instance running a dozen small applications, an agency hosting many low-traffic client sites on shared servers with certificates handled automatically, self-hosting analytics, databases and internal tools from the one-click catalogue without writing compose files, deploying inside a country or jurisdiction where no managed platform operates a region. Of those, replacing a managed platform bill with a single hetzner or digitalocean instance running a dozen small applications and an agency hosting many low-traffic client sites on shared servers with certificates handled automatically are not what Koyeb is typically brought in for.

What can Coolify do that Koyeb cannot?

Coolify covers Git push deployments, One-click services, Automatic certificates, Managed databases. Koyeb covers Serverless containers, GPU support, Global distribution, Multi-protocol support.

Cloud · head to head

Coolify vs Koyeb

Coolify

Cloud

Open source self-hosted platform that deploys applications and databases to servers you already own

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

Koyeb

Cloud

High-performance serverless infrastructure for APIs, inference, and databases

From: $29/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Only Coolify has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
Each has a real cost: Coolify commit history since June 2026 shows one maintainer at 73 commits and a second at 15 with nobody else above one, and the same two people also ship four other coolLabs products, so the project depends on a very small number of individuals.; Koyeb pricing starts at $29/month with additional compute costs
They diverge on capability: Coolify covers Git push deployments, Koyeb covers Serverless containers.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Coolify and Koyeb actually diverge.

Attributes where Coolify and Koyeb differ
Attribute	Coolify	Koyeb
Starting price	Free	$29/month
Pricing model	Open source, no licence fee	Unknown
Free tier	Yes	No
Platforms	Web, Linux, Docker, Self-hosted	Web, CLI, API

Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated), category (Cloud).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Coolify

Git push deployments
One-click services
Automatic certificates
Managed databases
Docker Compose support
Notifications

Only in Koyeb

Serverless containers
GPU support
Global distribution
Multi-protocol support
Serverless Postgres
Zero-downtime deployments

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Coolify

Replacing a managed platform bill with a single Hetzner or DigitalOcean instance running a dozen small applicationsnot Koyeb
An agency hosting many low-traffic client sites on shared servers with certificates handled automaticallynot Koyeb
Self-hosting analytics, databases and internal tools from the one-click catalogue without writing Compose filesnot Koyeb
Deploying inside a country or jurisdiction where no managed platform operates a regionnot Koyeb

Koyeb

Deploying AI inference models globally with GPU accelerationnot Coolify
Building SaaS platforms with automatic scalingnot Coolify
Running distributed AI agents and background workersnot Coolify

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Coolify

Commit history since June 2026 shows one maintainer at 73 commits and a second at 15 with nobody else above one, and the same two people also ship four other coolLabs products, so the project depends on a very small number of individuals.
Multi-server support is documented as experimental, load balancer configuration is manual, every server must share the same CPU architecture, and moving images between hosts requires you to run your own Docker registry.
In self-hosted mode the Coolify machine holds every SSH key and secret with no documented high availability, so the dashboard host is a single point of failure that the paid Cloud tier fixes and self-hosting does not.
Scheduled S3 backups cover PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB only, so application persistent volumes are your responsibility and a restore is untested unless you test it yourself.
Release cadence is fast enough that six patch versions shipped inside ten days in August 2026 against several hundred open issues, and because instances can update themselves a regression can reach a production host before you have read the changelog.

Koyeb

Pricing starts at $29/month with additional compute costs
GPU compute is expensive at $0.75-$2.50 per hour
Limited customization for infrastructure configuration

Pricing, plan by plan

Coolify

Free

Self-hostedFree
- Apache-2.0, no features held back
- Unlimited servers, applications and users
- You run, update and back up the dashboard yourself
Cloud$5/month
- Connects 2 servers, then 3 US dollars a month per extra server
- Managed and updated Coolify dashboard with high availability
- Managed backups of the Coolify instance itself

Koyeb

$29/month

Pro$29/month
- $10 included compute
- 10 users
- 100 services
Scale$299/month
- $100 included compute
- 50 users
- 1,000 services
Enterprise$1000/month
- Unlimited users
- Custom resources
- SSO/RBAC

Which should you pick?

Choose Coolify if

You need git push deployments.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Web, Linux, Docker, Self-hosted.
You also want one-click services.

Coolify review

Choose Koyeb if

You need serverless containers.
You work on Web, CLI, API.
You also want gpu support.

Koyeb review

Questions people ask

Is Coolify or Koyeb better?: Neither clearly leads. Coolify starts at Free and Koyeb at $29/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Coolify or Koyeb?: Coolify has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Coolify and $29/month for Koyeb.
Does Coolify or Koyeb run on more platforms?: Coolify runs on Web, Linux, Docker, Self-hosted. Koyeb runs on Web, CLI, API.
Can I use Coolify for free?: Yes. Coolify has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Koyeb starts at $29/month.
What is Coolify best used for?: Coolify is most often used for replacing a managed platform bill with a single hetzner or digitalocean instance running a dozen small applications, an agency hosting many low-traffic client sites on shared servers with certificates handled automatically, self-hosting analytics, databases and internal tools from the one-click catalogue without writing compose files, deploying inside a country or jurisdiction where no managed platform operates a region. Of those, replacing a managed platform bill with a single hetzner or digitalocean instance running a dozen small applications and an agency hosting many low-traffic client sites on shared servers with certificates handled automatically are not what Koyeb is typically brought in for.
What can Coolify do that Koyeb cannot?: Coolify covers Git push deployments, One-click services, Automatic certificates, Managed databases. Koyeb covers Serverless containers, GPU support, Global distribution, Multi-protocol support.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Coolify: Is anything held back for the paid tier?

No. Coolify Cloud hosts, updates and backs up the dashboard and gives it high availability. Every feature that touches your applications is in the Apache-2.0 build you can run yourself.

Koyeb: What are Koyeb's subscription plans?

Pro plan is $29/month with $10 included compute, Scale plan is $299/month with $100 included compute and 99.9% SLA, and Enterprise starts at $1,000/month with unlimited users and 99.99% SLA.

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Coolify: What does Coolify Cloud cost?

Five US dollars a month connects two servers, and each additional server is three dollars a month, with 20 per cent off for annual billing. You still supply and pay for the servers themselves.

Koyeb: How much does GPU compute cost?

GPU pricing is per-second: RTX-A6000 costs $0.75/hour, A100 costs $1.60/hour, H100 costs $2.50/hour, and 8x H100 costs $20.00/hour.

Source

Coolify: Does it back up my application data?

It backs up PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB to S3 on a schedule. Application persistent volumes are not covered, so anything stored outside a managed database needs your own backup plan.

Koyeb: What database options are available?

Koyeb offers serverless Postgres starting at free (0.25 vCPU, 1GB RAM) up to 3XL at $1.28/hour with 8 vCPU and 32GB RAM. Storage costs $0.50/month per GB.

Source

Coolify: Can I run it across several servers?

Yes, but the documentation calls multi-server experimental. Load balancing is not configured for you, all nodes must share a CPU architecture, and you need to run your own Docker registry.

Coolify vs Koyeb

Coolify

Koyeb

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Coolify

Only in Koyeb

What people use each for

Coolify

Koyeb

Where each one falls short

Coolify

Koyeb

Pricing, plan by plan

Coolify

Koyeb

Which should you pick?

Choose Coolify if

Choose Koyeb if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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