Comparisons
How Comebye compares
We're pre-beta, so these are honest, feature-by-feature comparisons written against public docs and pricing pages — not a customer's lived experience yet. Each page names where the other tool genuinely wins. If a $5/mo hobby tool is all you need, we'd rather tell you than pretend otherwise.
The one-paragraph version of each
- vs. Portainer
- The mature incumbent with a plugin ecosystem and Kubernetes support today. Comebye targets roughly a third of Portainer BE's price at every fleet size, with RBAC and audit on the free tier instead of gated behind Business Edition.
- vs. Coolify
- A polished git-push PaaS with a huge one-click app catalog, free self-hosted forever. Comebye is not a PaaS — it's fleet governance for Docker hosts you already run, with staged promote/rollback and compliance features Coolify doesn't target.
- vs. Komodo
- A genuinely strong free competitor — RBAC, GitOps, and unlimited hosts, no paid tier at all, GPL-3.0. If free-forever with no commercial support fits you, Komodo is a serious option. Comebye's case is staged environments, compliance tooling, and paid support for teams that need them.
- vs. Dockge
- A simple, well-loved compose stack editor from Uptime Kuma's creator, aimed at individuals rather than team governance. Comebye adds RBAC, SSO, audit, and safe promote/rollback for teams that have outgrown a single admin.