Coolify vs Lovable
Coolify and Lovable are both hosting for ai-built apps software. Coolify is open source under Apache-2.0, with 66k GitHub stars. Lovable is a commercial product from Lovable.
Which to pick
- Pick Coolify when
- You want push-to-deploy convenience on your own VPS fleet without Kubernetes.
- Pick Lovable when
- You want to build and run the app in one browser tool without installing anything.
Side by side
A self-hosted platform for deploying apps, databases and over 360 one-click services to your own servers, like a self-run Heroku or Vercel.
Builds a web app from chat in the browser and hosts it with a database, sign-in, secrets and scheduled jobs through Lovable Cloud.
Your servers and the Coolify instance become your responsibility, including security updates.
Data access depends on generated row-level security rules, Cloud use is billed in credits, and moving off means migrating to Supabase without user passwords.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service
PHP, Laravel, Docker, PostgreSQL and Redis
React and Supabase
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Lovable
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
66k GitHub stars
4.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release v4.6.0.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.