Coolify

About Coolify

Self-hosted platform for deploying websites, databases and applications to servers you control, reached over SSH. The project describes itself as an alternative to Heroku, Netlify and Vercel. Licensed Apache-2.0.

What it can replace

• Vercel

  Direct alternativeVerified

  Basis:

  The project's own material

  Provenance:

  Official source

  Migration effort:

  Not assessed

  Confidence in the assessment:

  Not assessed

  Last checked:

  2026-10-29

  README: självhostbart alternativ till Heroku, Netlify och Vercel

  • github.com/coollabsio/coolify/blob/72c8209285dcd09291cca16f2acaf14dacf3ac43/README.md

• Heroku

  Direct alternativeVerified

  Basis:

  The project's own material

  Provenance:

  Official source

  Migration effort:

  Not assessed

  Confidence in the assessment:

  Not assessed

  Last checked:

  2026-10-29

  README: självhostbart alternativ till Heroku, Netlify och Vercel

  • github.com/coollabsio/coolify/blob/72c8209285dcd09291cca16f2acaf14dacf3ac43/README.md

• Netlify

  Direct alternativeVerified

  Basis:

  The project's own material

  Provenance:

  Official source

  Migration effort:

  Not assessed

  Confidence in the assessment:

  Not assessed

  Last checked:

  2026-10-29

  README: självhostbart alternativ till Heroku, Netlify och Vercel

  • github.com/coollabsio/coolify/blob/72c8209285dcd09291cca16f2acaf14dacf3ac43/README.md

Feature coverage

The features have not been assessed yet. We show no coverage without evidence.

Three separate assessments

Licence, project health and security are reported separately. We never combine them into one score.

Operations and data control

Deployment options

Self-hosted, Vendor's cloud

Verified · Official source

• Official source, retrieved 2026-10-30: coolify.io/docs/start-with-cloud
• Official source, retrieved 2026-10-30: coolify.io/docs/core/how-coolify-works

Packaging

docker, docker-compose

Verified · Official source

• Official source, retrieved 2026-10-30: github.com/coollabsio/coolify/blob/72c8209285dcd09291cca16f2acaf14dacf3ac43/docker-compose.prod.yml

Databases

postgres

Minimum resources

2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 10 GB disk (upstream)

Sign-in (SSO)

OIDC

Verified · Official source

• Official source, retrieved 2026-10-30: coolify.io/docs/core/security/authentication/sso/oidc

Export

Unknown

• Hosting

Data residency and GDPR

Glossary: Data residency

For organisations operating in Sweden or elsewhere in the EU. Only sourced facts are shown. This is not legal advice.

Data location

You decide: when you run the tool yourself, the data stays where you run it, for example in a data centre in Sweden or elsewhere in the EU. Inferred

Data control features

None documented yet Unknown

Run by SIAX

The hosting provider and region of SIAX Cloud are listed in the list of sub-processors.

GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) applies to personal data processed in Sweden as in the rest of the EU. Transfers to countries outside the EU/EEA are governed by Chapter V.