5050cloud and Coolify
Coolify is a popular self-hosted panel; 5050cloud differs in its Railway-style canvas, references between services and built-in multi-host load balancing.
Facts as of 2026-10-22, from Coolify's docs.
| 5050cloud | Coolify | |
|---|---|---|
| License | AGPL-3.0 server, MIT CLI | Apache-2.0 |
| How it reaches servers | Agent dials out, no inbound port | SSH from the control panel |
| Multi-server | One cluster, replicas across hosts, built-in load balancing | One copy per server; bring your own load balancer |
| Replicas on one host | Yes | No replica count; scale by adding servers |
| Variable references between services | Yes, Railway syntax | No |
| Zero-downtime deploys | Yes for services without a volume | Rolling update for non-Compose apps, off with a host port, fixed name or fixed IP, and for previews |
| Backups | Point-in-time Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, volumes; restore to a copy | Scheduled database dumps to S3; restore is largely manual |
| Builds | Railpack or Dockerfile | Nixpacks, Railpack, static |
| Databases | Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB | Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis and more |
Coolify has a much larger catalogue of one-click services and a hosted option. 5050cloud is newer and aims at Railway users who want the same workflow on their own servers.