Coolify vs Kamal
Coolify
coolify.io
Kamal
kamal-deploy.orgSide by side
| Figure | Coolify | Kamal |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $5/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 1 |
| Spec score · Deployment Automation Software | 9.3 (#1) | 7.6 (#25) |
| Maker | The pricing page identifies the legal entity as coolLabs Solutions Kft. | The official site identifies 37signals as the makers of Kamal. |
| Purpose | Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Heroku, Netlify and Railway for deploying websites, databases, web applications and 280+ one-click services to your own server. | Kamal deploys and manages containerized web apps in production on servers ranging from bare metal to cloud VMs. |
| Support | Self-hosted plans include community support, while Cloud includes community support and limited email support. | The official site links to GitHub Discussions for help and to a Discord community. |
Plans
In their own words
Coolify
Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable deployment platform for websites, databases, web applications, and more than 280 one-click services. It builds each commit and deploys over SSH to a connected server. Projects can use Nixpacks, Railpack, Dockerfile, Docker Compose, static serving, or a prebuilt registry image. Push-to-deploy connections include GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Gitea, including self-hosted instances. One-click databases include PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, KeyDB, Dragonfly, and ClickHouse. Operations include pull-request deployments, scheduled tasks, shared environment variables, monitoring, S3-compatible database backups, and rollbacks. An API and MCP server let AI clients such as Claude and Cursor manage resources, deployments, logs, and restarts. Coolify runs only on Linux; the documented minimum is 2 CPU cores, 2 GB RAM, and 10 GB disk. Self-hosted use is free forever. Cloud costs $5 a month plus $3 server.