Coolify vs Piku
Coolify and Piku are both paas and app hosting software. Coolify is open source under Apache-2.0, with 66k GitHub stars. Piku is open source under MIT, with 6.6k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Coolify when
- You want push-to-deploy convenience on your own VPS fleet without Kubernetes.
- Pick Piku when
- You deploy small apps to a low-powered machine such as a Raspberry Pi or small VPS where Docker is too heavy.
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.
A tiny PaaS that enables git push deployments of Python, Node, Go and other apps to your own server, using a Procfile, without Docker.
Your servers and the Coolify instance become your responsibility, including security updates.
Minimal feature set and a small maintainer team; no container isolation between apps.
Production-ready
Usable
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Self-hosted server
PHP, Laravel, Docker, PostgreSQL and Redis
Python, uWSGI and nginx
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Open source, MIT (permissive)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice. (both)
66k GitHub stars
6.6k GitHub stars
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release v4.6.0.
Established: started 10 years ago, latest release v1.0.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.