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Coolify pricing
Coolify publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 31 August 2026, Coolify pricing is free, then $5/month across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $5/month
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Coolify plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Cloud | $5/month | 7 | +$5/month, 7 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Self-hosted
FreeThe entry tier. It covers apache-2.0, no features held back, unlimited servers, applications and users, you run, update and back up the dashboard yourself, community support.
Cloud
$5/monthOver Self-hosted, this tier adds:
- 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
- Email alerts without your own SMTP provider
- Priority email support
- 20 per cent discount on annual billing
- You still supply and pay for the servers
Where Coolify stops being free
Self-hosted, Free
- Apache-2.0, no features held back
- Unlimited servers, applications and users
- You run, update and back up the dashboard yourself
- Community support
Cloud, $5/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 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
- Email alerts without your own SMTP provider
- Priority email support
- 20 per cent discount on annual billing
- You still supply and pay for the servers
What the product covers
The full Coolify feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Git push deployments
- One-click services
- Automatic certificates
- Managed databases
- Docker Compose support
- Notifications
People bring Coolify in 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. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Coolify are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud
Too few cloud tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolify (this page) | Free, then $5/month | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Rook | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Coolify |
| OpenEBS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Coolify |
| Portworx | $0.33/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs Coolify |
| Longhorn | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Coolify |
| Qovery | On request | quote | - | vs Coolify |
| Dokku | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Coolify |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Coolify badges page.
Before you pay for Coolify
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $5/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Coolify runs on web, linux, docker, self-hosted, and is published by coolLabs Solutions Kft of Hungary. The full record is on the Coolify review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Coolify pricing questions
- How much does Coolify cost?
- Coolify publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Self-hosted up to $5/month for Cloud. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Coolify have a free plan?
- Yes. The Self-hosted tier costs nothing and covers apache-2.0, no features held back, unlimited servers, applications and users, you run, update and back up the dashboard yourself. Paying starts at $5/month for Cloud.
- What is the difference between Self-hosted and Cloud on Coolify?
- Cloud costs $5/month against Free, and adds 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, email alerts without your own smtp provider.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Coolify have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Dokku, Infracost.
- What am I actually paying for with Coolify?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in 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.
- Does Coolify charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Coolify prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Coolify against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Coolify covering price, platforms and features.