Compared
Cubeship vs Coolify
Cubeship is 100% free. Every feature, every server, every user. No plans, no cloud.
Coolify is free to self-host; what it sells is Coolify Cloud. Cubeship has nothing to sell.
| Feature | Cubeship | Coolify |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | ||
| Open source | ||
| Free to self-host | ||
| No paid tier, no hosted upsell | ||
| One-command install on your own server | ||
| Deploying | ||
| From a Dockerfile | ||
| From a repository with no Dockerfile | ||
| From an image on any registry | ||
| Static sites | ||
| Docker Compose stacks | ||
| One-click services | ||
| Built-in registry — docker push is the deploy | ||
| Deploy on push from GitHub | ||
| GitLab, Bitbucket, Gitea | ||
| Preview deployments | ||
| Zero-downtime deploys | ||
| Health checks | ||
| Data | ||
| Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis, MongoDB | ||
| Scheduled backups to S3 | ||
| Restore from the dashboard | ||
| Backup coverage report per database | ||
| Backs up the platform itself | ||
| Object storage attached to apps, keys injected | ||
| Machines | ||
| More than one server | ||
| Servers join with no port open to the internet | ||
| Private network between servers | ||
| Copies of an app spread over servers | ||
| CPU-based autoscaling | ||
| Per-container CPU and memory limits | ||
| Stable internal address per app | ||
| Host firewall managed from the dashboard | ||
| Operating | ||
| Charts for every container and the machine | ||
| Logs in the dashboard | ||
| Users and roles | ||
| Certificates issued and renewed | ||
| API | ||
| CLI | ||
| MCP endpoint for agents | ||
| Terminal in the browser | ||
| Deploy notifications | ||
| Choice of proxy | ||
Checked against Coolify's site and README, September 2026. Wrong or out of date? Say so.