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Open source alternatives to Railway

2 open source tools do the job of Railway. The most starred is Coolify, with 66k stars. Verified on GitHub. About Railway

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Coolify66k stars · Apache 2.0GitHub

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Questions about alternatives to Railway

What is the best open source alternative to Railway?

By GitHub stars it is Coolify, with 66,056 stars and a commit on 13 Nov. Open source app hosting platform for your own servers. Next come Dokku (32,227 stars).

Is there a free alternative to Railway?

Yes. The code of all 2 is public under Apache 2.0 or MIT, so you can use them with no licence fee. Running one yourself costs the server and your time to look after it, and some makers also sell a hosted plan.

Which Railway alternatives can I host on my own server?

All 2: Coolify and Dokku. Each tool's page says what it needs to run.

Which ones are still being worked on?

All 2 we track had a commit in the last 30 days, among them Coolify and Dokku. A recent commit shows the project is kept up, not that it will stay that way.

What licences do they use?

Apache 2.0 (1), MIT (1). MIT, BSD and Apache let you change and reuse the code freely.

What do I lose by leaving Railway?

The hosting. Railway's maker runs the servers for you; with an open source tool the updates, backups, security fixes and support are yours, unless you take the maker's hosted plan. Features differ too, so check what each one imports and exports before you move your data.