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By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.

Updated Mar 2026

Swiftwave handles it. Point it at a VPS, push your code, and it builds, deploys, and manages SSL certificates automatically. Think Coolify or Dokku but written in Go with a focus on simplicity over features.

Everything is free under Apache 2.0. No paid tier, no hosted cloud version. You get Git-based deployments, automatic SSL via Let's Encrypt, a web dashboard, and built-in support for Postgres, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB. The setup is straightforward: single binary, minimal dependencies.

The catch: this is early-stage. The community is small, documentation has gaps, and you're betting on a project that hasn't proven long-term sustainability. Coolify has 10x the community and more features. Swiftwave's advantage is simplicity (fewer moving parts, less config), but that also means fewer escape hatches when you need something custom.

Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid

fully free

Fully open source under Apache 2.0. No paid tier, no cloud offering, no enterprise version. You install it on your own VPS and run it.

Total cost: Just your VPS. A $5-6/mo Hetzner or DigitalOcean droplet is enough for small projects. The tool itself adds zero cost.

Compared to alternatives: Coolify offers a managed cloud option ($5/mo per server) on top of self-hosting. Dokku is similarly free but CLI-only. Swiftwave sits in between: free like Dokku, GUI like Coolify, but with a much smaller community backing it.

Free forever. No paid tier exists. You pay for your VPS only.

Self-hosting ops:moderate

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