Coolify vs Serversinc
Both run your apps as containers on servers you own. Coolify gives you the control plane to host. Serversinc hosts it for you.
Checked against Coolify's public pricing and docs on 2026-09-27.
What Coolify is, and what Serversinc is
Both get your apps running. Here is how each one does it.
Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable PaaS. You install it on a server, connect more servers over SSH, and deploy from Git, Dockerfiles, Compose files or images. Self-hosting is free; Coolify Cloud runs the instance for you from $5 a month.
Serversinc is a hosted control plane. An agent on each server takes the deploys, runs the health checks and reports back, so there's no Coolify-style instance of your own to keep alive. You pay £5 a month for your first three servers and £2 for each one after.
What the bill looks like
Coolify is free to self-host. Coolify Cloud is $5 a month for two servers, plus $3 for each server after that.
- Control plane
- Coolify Self-hosted: free, on a server you run and patch. Cloud: hosted by Coolify Serversinc Hosted by Serversinc, included
- 3 servers
- Coolify $0 self-hosted, $8/mo on Cloud Serversinc £5/mo
- 5 servers
- Coolify $0 self-hosted, $14/mo on Cloud Serversinc £9/mo
- 10 servers
- Coolify $0 self-hosted, $29/mo on Cloud Serversinc £19/mo
- Team members
- Coolify Unlimited Serversinc Up to 10, no seat charge
List prices in each vendor's own currency. Server costs from your cloud provider are billed separately on both sides unless stated.
Side by side
Deploys, databases, backups, alerts and automation.
- Sources
- Coolify Any Git repository (Nixpacks or Dockerfile), Docker Compose and images Serversinc GitHub repositories and Docker images from any registry
- One-click apps
- Coolify A large catalogue of Compose-based services Serversinc A curated catalogue of single-container templates
- Deploys
- Coolify Health checks, deploy webhooks and preview deployments Serversinc Rolling or recreate, gated on a health check, with rollback when it fails
- Databases
- Coolify Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis and more, with S3 backups Serversinc Postgres, MySQL and MariaDB with users, schemas and grants, backed up on a schedule to S3, R2 or B2
- Server provisioning
- Coolify Connect any server over SSH Serversinc Import any Linux server, or provision on DigitalOcean or Hetzner with your key
- Alerts
- Coolify Email, Discord, Telegram, Slack and more Serversinc Email, Slack and signed webhooks, routed per alert
- Automation
- Coolify REST API and a read-only MCP server Serversinc REST API, per-application deploy triggers and an MCP server that can act on servers, apps, databases and backups
- Upkeep
- Coolify Self-hosted: you update and back up the Coolify instance Serversinc Serversinc runs, updates and backs up the control plane
Both are good tools. Pick the one that fits.
Where each one is the stronger choice, stated plainly.
Pick Coolify if
- You want the control plane itself on your own hardware, at no licence cost.
- You deploy multi-container Docker Compose stacks today.
- You rely on preview deployments per pull request.
- You want Discord or Telegram alerts out of the box.
Pick Serversinc if
- You want a hosted control plane you never patch, back up or restore.
- You want a failed health check to roll the deploy back on its own.
- You want AI agents to act on your fleet through MCP, not just read it.
- You want one bill line that grows by £2 a server.
Coolify vs Serversinc, answered
Connect your first server
Import a server you already run, or provision one on your own cloud account. The first three servers are £5 a month.