Laravel Forge alternatives, compared

Five tools that deploy Laravel and other apps, what each is best at, and where Provisore differs. Provisore manages Ubuntu servers on your own provider account, from $12 a month for 3 servers.

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Laravel Forge

From $12 a month

The Laravel team's own server manager, with Laravel VPS hosting built in.

Better choice when

Your servers are Laravel VPS machines
You run 4 servers or more
You want the Laravel team's own tool

Laravel Forge compared with Provisore

Ploi

Free plan, paid from $10 a month

A lower-priced server panel in the Forge mould that also manages Debian and Docker servers.

Better choice when

You want the lowest price
Your servers run Debian, or Docker
You want status pages, or backups outside S3

Ploi compared with Provisore

Coolify

Free self-hosted, paid from $5 a month

An open-source platform you can host yourself that deploys apps as Docker containers.

Better choice when

You want it free and open source
Your app already ships as a container
You need a database Provisore does not manage

Coolify compared with Provisore

Laravel Cloud

From $5 a month plus usage

Laravel's managed platform on AWS: billed by usage, autoscaling, no servers to look after.

Better choice when

Your app is idle most of the time
Your traffic arrives in spikes
You do not want an operating system

Laravel Cloud compared with Provisore

RunCloud

From $9 a month

A WordPress-first server panel that covers many servers per plan.

Better choice when

You run WordPress
You want the most servers per dollar
You want backups on the entry plan

RunCloud compared with Provisore

Heroku, Render or Fly.io?

Platforms bill per process rather than per server. The same app priced on each of them and on a server you own.

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Tool	Entry price	Zero-downtime deploys	Deploy health check	Backups	Monitoring
Provisore	Solo, $12 a month: 3 servers on any provider, 1 seat. Pricing	Every site on every plan. Each deploy builds a new release and goes live with a symlink switch. Deployments	Requests the site after the switch and rolls back to the previous release on a 5xx, a refused connection or a timeout. Deployments	Scheduled database and site file backups to your own S3-compatible bucket, from Pro. Backups & restore	CPU, memory, disk and service metrics on every plan, kept 24 hours on Solo. Metrics & alerts Alert rules, uptime checks and log search across servers from Pro, and on-call rotations from Scale. Pricing
Laravel Forge	Hobby, $12/month: 1 external server, plus unlimited Laravel VPS servers. laravel.com/forge/pricing	On every plan, for a site on one server. laravel.com/forge/pricing Chosen when a site is created. It cannot be added to an existing site. laravel.com/forge/docs/sites/deployments	After a deploy Forge checks the site from three locations and notifies you if it is not reachable. laravel.com/forge/docs/sites/deployments Automatic rollback: not listed in their deployment docs. laravel.com/forge/docs/sites/deployments	Scheduled database backups to S3-compatible storage, with restore. laravel.com/forge/docs/resources/database-backups Site file backups: not listed in their docs index. laravel.com/forge/docs/llms.txt	CPU load, memory and disk, with an email when one of them changes state. laravel.com/forge/docs/servers/monitoring Log search and uptime checks: not listed in their monitoring docs. laravel.com/forge/docs/servers/monitoring
Ploi	Free: 1 server, 1 site and 5 deployments a month. ploi.io/pricing Basic, $10/month: up to 5 servers. ploi.io/pricing	On the Pro and Unlimited plans. ploi.io/pricing	A deploy health check or automatic rollback: not listed on their features page. ploi.io/features	Automatic database and file backups on Pro and Unlimited. ploi.io/pricing To S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Google Drive, Dropbox, SFTP, FTP, rclone or a local path. ploi.io/features/database-backups	Server monitoring on Pro and Unlimited. Site uptime monitoring and status pages on Unlimited. ploi.io/pricing
Coolify	Cloud, $5/month: 2 servers included, more billed per server at $3 a month. coolify.io/pricing Self-hosted, free: unlimited servers, on an instance you run yourself. coolify.io/pricing	Rolling updates start the new container before stopping the old one, except for Docker Compose apps, host port mappings and fixed container names. coolify.io/docs/applications/deployments/rolling-updates Their docs say rolling updates do not guarantee zero downtime. coolify.io/docs/applications/deployments/rolling-updates	During a rolling update Coolify waits for the new container's health check and keeps the running version if the replacement fails. coolify.io/docs/applications/configuration/health-checks A rollback redeploys an older image still on the server. coolify.io/docs/applications/deployments/rollbacks	Scheduled database backups to the server, optionally copied to S3-compatible storage. coolify.io/docs/databases/backups Redis, Dragonfly and KeyDB are not covered by that workflow. coolify.io/docs/databases/backups	Server availability, container state, disk usage, backups, and CPU and memory metrics. coolify.io/docs/core/observability/monitoring/overview
Laravel Cloud	Starter, $5/month plus usage, with $5 of usage included. Flex compute up to 2 GiB. laravel.com/cloud/pricing	Every deploy goes live with zero downtime. laravel.com/cloud/docs/deployments	A deploy health check or automatic rollback: not listed in their deployments docs. laravel.com/cloud/docs/deployments	Laravel MySQL clusters have automated and manual backups. laravel.com/cloud/docs/resources/databases/laravel-mysql	Logs and metrics kept for 1 day on Starter, 7 on Growth and 30 on Business. laravel.com/cloud/pricing
RunCloud	Essentials, $9/month: 1 server. runcloud.io/pricing	Atomic deployment on Business and Enterprise. runcloud.io/pricing	Their atomic deployment docs cover reverting to a previous version. runcloud.io/docs/category/atomic-deployment Automatic rollback: not listed in their atomic deployment docs. runcloud.io/docs/category/atomic-deployment	Web app and database backups on every plan, with 2 GB of backup storage on Essentials. runcloud.io/pricing External destinations widen by plan. Essentials is limited to Amazon S3 and SFTP. runcloud.io/pricing	Server health checks with email, Slack or Telegram notifications on every plan. runcloud.io/pricing

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