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Coolify on its own, or with airepeat on top
Coolify is a great open-source platform for running apps on your own servers. airepeat uses it, and adds AI building, approvals, a key vault and the accounts around it.
Coolify is excellent open-source software, and airepeat is built on it: every site and service airepeat runs is deployed by Coolify on your server. If you're comfortable in Coolify's own interface, you may not need anything more.
airepeat adds the parts around Coolify: creating sites with AI, launching the server and connecting the accounts (GitHub, Cloudflare, your server provider), approvals for anything that costs money, an encrypted vault for every provider key, and an audit log across all of it.
Capabilities
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| Capability | Coolify on its own | Coolify with airepeat |
|---|---|---|
| Build and run containers on your servers | Yes, this is what Coolify does | Yes, through Coolify |
| One-click open-source services | Yes, Coolify's catalogue | The same 350+ services, with warnings for risky ones |
| Create a site from a description with AI | Not part of Coolify | AI planner, then reviewable commits |
| A new GitHub repository for each site | You create repositories yourself | Created in your GitHub account |
| DNS records at Cloudflare | You set up DNS yourself | Managed through your Cloudflare key |
| Install Coolify on a new server | Install script you run on the server | One-click stack launch on Hetzner (DigitalOcean in testing) |
| Approval before paid or irreversible actions | Not part of Coolify | Bound to the exact change, with the provider's price |
| One vault for server, DNS, Git and AI keys | Keeps the keys for its own resources | AES-256-GCM, never shown again |
| Backups checked by restoring them | Scheduled database backups | Coolify's daily database backups; code and settings backups verified by restore |
| Self-hosted and open source | Yes | Coolify stays open source; airepeat is a hosted control panel |
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Coolify alone may be enough when
- You're happy managing repositories, DNS and keys yourself.
- You want everything, including the control panel, to be open source and self-hosted.
- You don't need AI site building or approvals.
airepeat helps when
- You want to go from an idea to a deployed site without leaving one dashboard.
- Several people work on the same servers and you want approvals and an audit log.
- You'd rather not wire up GitHub, Cloudflare and your server provider by hand.
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Other ways to run your sites
- A managed PaaS, or your own servers with airepeatA managed platform runs everything for you. airepeat gives you much of that convenience on servers in your own account, at your providers' prices.
- Managing servers by hand, or with airepeatYou can run everything with SSH, Docker and a few scripts. airepeat does the same jobs with checks, approvals and a record of every change.
Run your next site on your own servers
Free while in beta. Bring your own keys; you pay your providers directly.