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Depfloy compared with the tools people actually weigh it against.

Five comparisons live here, and they split on one question: do you already have a server, or are you paying someone else to run one? Forge, Ploi, RunCloud and Coolify assume the first. Vercel assumes the second. Depfloy is in the first group, so the comparison that matters to you depends on which group you are in today.

DEPFLOY VS LARAVEL FORGE

Compare the services and workflows your projects need.

Read this if: You run Laravel on your own servers and want the data layer managed too.

DEPFLOY VS PLOI

Compare the services, permissions and plans you need.

Read this if: You are already on a hosted control plane and comparing depth.

DEPFLOY VS RUNCLOUD

A panel for PHP, or a platform for the whole stack.

Read this if: You run PHP today and are adding JavaScript apps.

DEPFLOY VS COOLIFY

Coolify Cloud, self-hosted Coolify or Depfloy?

Read this if: You are deciding between running the control plane yourself and subscribing to one.

DEPFLOY VS VERCEL

The same workflow, on hardware you own.

Read this if: You are leaving metered platform billing.

THE OTHER DIRECTION

Where these comparisons go against us.

Coolify is open source and free to self-host, and so is Dokploy. If a control plane running on someone else's infrastructure is the thing you are trying to avoid, that is the honest answer and no row in these tables changes it. Vercel's preview-deployment ecosystem and integration depth are wider than ours. And one machine is one machine: there is no edge network here, and Depfloy automates the operations without pretending otherwise.

Depfloy is $5, $19 or $39 a month, flat, plus whatever you already pay for the server itself. Nothing is metered — not bandwidth, not builds, not deploys, not seats. Seven-day trial, no card.

QUESTIONS

Before you pick one.

Which comparison should I read first? +
If you own the server already, read Forge or Ploi — they are the same shape as Depfloy, so the rows worth reading are the ones behind the deploy step rather than the deploy itself. If you are still on a platform that bills by usage, read Vercel first; the question there is economics, not features.
How current are these comparisons? +
Every row that describes the other side carries the date it was read and a link to the page it was read from. Nothing here is written from memory, and a row that cannot be sourced is left out rather than filled in — which is why some of these tables are shorter than you might expect. Prices and feature tiers move; an undated comparison is wrong within a couple of quarters and gives no way to tell when it went wrong.

Compare it against your own setup.

7 days free, no credit card. Connect a server you already have and put the rows in these tables to the test.

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