---
title: "Deplo vs Coolify"
description: "Ridicolously good alternative to cloud providers."
url: "https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/comparison/coolify"
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updated: "2026-09-18"
---

# Deplo vs Coolify

## You already know how to use it.

It works like the cloud you're leaving: connect a repo, pick an environment, watch it deploy.

[Get started](https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/get-started)

[Docs](https://deplo.build/docs)

![Deplo dashboard](https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/api/media/file/deplo_screenshot-1.png)

## Three things you can't do on Coolify.

Not opinions: one is an open request on their tracker, the other two are in their own docs.

### Permissions per action, not per role

Coolify uses three team roles: Owner, Admin and Member with fixed permissions. Here, permissions are individual capabilities that can be combined into custom roles.

### One server, every team

In Coolify, servers are scoped to a team and cannot be shared between teams by default. Here, servers are instance-wide: you choose which teams can deploy on them.

### One network per environment

Coolify does not isolate environments at the network level by default. You can create separate networks, but they require additional configuration. Here, every environment gets its own private network.

| | Deplo | Coolify |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **One server, many teams**: In Coolify, servers are scoped to a team. Here, servers are instance-wide: you choose which teams can deploy on them. | Yes | No |
| **Roles you define yourself**: Not opinions: these differences are documented in Coolify's team, permissions, and networking model. | Yes | No |
| **Per-folder access**: A folder share gives someone everything inside one folder, and nothing outside it. | Yes | No |
| **Import of your current setup**: A wizard reads your Coolify over its API and rebuilds it here, volume data included. | Yes | No |
| **Backups encrypted before they leave**: Databases and volumes, encrypted on the machine. The recovery key opens them anywhere. | Yes | Partial |
| **Activity trail in the dashboard**: Who did what, and when, next to the thing it happened to. Not a log file to grep. | Yes | Partial |
| **Private network per environment**: Each environment gets its own network. Apps reach their database by name. | Yes | Partial |
| **A preview URL for every pull request**: Open a PR and it gets its own URL and environment. Close it and both disappear. | Yes | Yes |
| **MCP server for coding agents**: Off by default. On, an agent works under a token you mint, with the same checks as a person. | Yes | Yes |

## What you get on day one

Deploys, backups, logs, metrics and TLS, already on. Nothing to buy on top, nothing to hunt down.

### Let AI interact with your infra

Deplo ships a native MCP server. Point Claude, Cursor or any MCP client at your instance and it can deploy, read logs and roll back in plain language, under a token you mint and revoke. Same permission checks as the dashboard, so an agent can never do what you can't. Off by default.

[Learn more](https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/use-cases/ai-interact-with-infra)

### Ship on every push

Connect GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or Gitea once. Every push to your production branch goes live, every pull request gets its own preview URL that disappears when it closes, and a bad release rolls back to the exact image that worked. No CI pipeline to own.

[Learn more](https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/use-cases/ship-on-every-push)

### Control who can do what

Deplo is built for a team, not for one operator with root. 46 fine-grained Capabilities let you say "can deploy, cannot delete", and per-folder grants hand a member exactly one corner of the fleet. The Activity trail answers who did what and when, in the UI. Nobody has to look in a database.

[Learn more](https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/use-cases/control-who-can-do-what)

### Host your Web application

Connect the repo and you get a live URL with HTTPS on it. deplo works out the framework and builds it for you, so there's no Dockerfile to write, no SSH, nothing to hand-edit. Postgres or Redis sits next to your app in two clicks. Same stack you ran on the cloud. Only the bill changed.

[Learn more](https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/use-cases/host-your-web-application)

## Already running on Coolify?

The wizard reads your Coolify over its API and rebuilds it here, volume data included.

![Coolify](https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/api/media/file/coolify-logo.svg)

[Read the guide](https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/docs/guides/move-from-coolify)

## Ten minutes from now 
it's deployed.

Install takes one command on a server you already pay for. What you do with the money you get back is your business.

[Docs](https://deplo.build/docs)

[Get started](https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/get-started)

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