BUT CAN'T COOLIFY DO THAT?
Alfredo vs Coolify
“Can't Coolify already deploy all my projects on my own servers?”
Coolify and Alfredo solve the same deploy problem on your own servers; Alfredo adds the wiring and one-HQ layer that sits above deploying.
YOU KEEP
Coolify itself, if it is your deploy engine today — your servers and your deploy engine keep running, and nothing forces you off it.
Alfredo and Coolify, across the seven things
The honest version, side by side. Green is automatic, amber is manual work you own, a grey ring is not possible.
| CAPABILITY | Alfredo | Coolify |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on your servers | Any VPS you can SSH into. Alfredo runs on your servers; it does not host your projects. | Yes. Free and open source, self-hosted with no feature restrictions (coolify.io/pricing, 2026-07-18). |
| Deploys your projects | Built in. Pick the integrations a project needs and deploy — there is no separate PaaS underneath. | Yes — apps, databases and 280+ one-click services, multi-server. |
| Wires each project at birth | The core claim. Auth, email, database, analytics and payments are configured at creation, secrets are moved for you, and integrations already running are reused. | No. One-click services come up as separate boxes; you connect auth, email, analytics and payments yourself, and nothing is shared between projects. |
| One dashboard across projects | One HQ across every project you deploy. | No. The dashboard is per project and covers deploys and infra. |
| Sees your business, not just CPU | Payments and email delivery sit next to traffic, errors and uptime — business signals, not just CPU. | No. CPU, logs and deploy status; no payments or email delivery. |
| Works without assembly | Zero setup — the cross-project view is assembled for you, not built. | On the deploy side, yes; the cross-project ops view Alfredo describes does not exist in it. |
| Flat cost for many projects | Flat: you pay for your own box, not per host, per project or per module. | Free self-hosted; Coolify Cloud is $5/mo for 2 servers plus $3/mo per extra server (2026-07-18). |
ALFREDO ADDS
Wiring at project creation and one dashboard over all projects with business signals. Alfredo is an early, unproven prototype; Coolify is the proven part of many self-hosted stacks.
COOLIFY'S REAL WINS
Mature, widely used, a large service catalog, and an active community. It works today.
STAY ON COOLIFY IF
Stay put if you are fine connecting integrations yourself and don't want a cross-project view — or you won't put a prototype in front of your deploys. Alfredo is an early, unproven prototype; Coolify is the mature, proven thing.