Comparisons
How Taxiway compares.
Every one of these tools is a reasonable choice, and each of these pages says plainly where the other one wins. If you read a comparison page where the author loses no rounds, you are reading an advert.
- Taxiway vs Coolify Both put your apps in Docker on servers you own. The difference is what you have to run, and what you have to leave open. Read
- Taxiway vs Dokploy Same instinct: a nicer Docker deploy experience. Different bet on who runs the panel and which way the connection points. Read
- Taxiway vs Laravel Forge Forge configures the machine. Taxiway replaces the machine's configuration with containers, and this is the comparison where Forge legitimately wins several rounds. Read
- Taxiway vs Railway Railway is superb, and this whole project exists because I wanted it on my own servers. Here is the honest trade. Read
- Taxiway vs Dokku & CapRover Two long-running, genuinely free, genuinely open-source projects. Taxiway is not trying to beat them on price, because nobody beats free and MIT. Read
All comparisons checked September 2026.
The thing that actually differs.
Nearly every self-hosted platform puts a control panel on a server and has it SSH into your machines. Taxiway runs the control panel for you, and your server connects to it: outbound, over one WebSocket, with nothing listening for us. That single decision is what costs us little enough to give away, what keeps the footprint at one Go binary, and what lets it work on a box with no public IP at all.
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Point Taxiway at a server you own, connect your repo, and push. That's the whole setup, and it costs nothing.