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coolifyvssocktop

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

coolifysocktop
Score89/10048/100
Rank in category#1 of 14 in Platform as a Service#28 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars65 217192
Stars, last 30 days+2 972+0
Stable releases, 12 months456
Latest releasev4.5.3 · 28 Oct 2026v1.60.2 · 24 Aug 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languagePHPRust

Which one should you pick?

coolify scores 89/100 against 48/100 for socktop, so it is the safer default.

coolify ships more often: 45 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for socktop.

coolify is growing faster right now (+2 972 stars in 30 days).

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