TL;DR: Coolify vs Dokploy compared

Coolify and Dokploy are self-hosted control panels: a web app you install on a server you rent, which then deploys your apps, databases and Docker Compose files from Git. Both are free and both are good on one server. They differ most once you add a second.

Coolify runs plain Docker on each server over SSH, with every feature free under Apache-2.0. It suits a handful of apps on one server, with previews from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or Gitea.

Dokploy runs your servers as a Docker Swarm cluster, with SSO, custom roles and audit logs under a paid licence. It suits teams that already know Swarm and want one app spread across servers.

Ployz is built for more than one server from the start. Add a server with one command and it joins the others and takes traffic, with no manager server, no Swarm and no load balancer.…