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How ShipTiffin compares
The tools people use instead, side by side, with what each one does better.
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In short
ShipTiffin puts every app and its backend on one server in your own Hetzner account, for $19 a month per box plus the server. These pages set it against Coolify, Vercel and Supabase, with each vendor’s prices read on its own site and dated, and a list of when the other tool is the better choice.
The comparisons
- ShipTiffin vs Coolify
Coolify is a free deploy panel with templates you run yourself. ShipTiffin costs more and comes with sign-in, email, analytics, error tracking and point-in-time backups, kept up to date for you.
- ShipTiffin vs Vercel
For several Next.js apps: one flat bill on a server you own, against Vercel's global network and scaling. Costs for 1, 5 and 20 apps.
- Self-hosted Supabase alternative
Postgres, sign-in, files and KV for every project, with no per-project fee and no pausing. No realtime, edge functions or generated APIs.
How these pages are written
Prices from the vendor
Every price for another tool links to that vendor's own page, with the day we read it. Prices change; check the link.When the other tool fits better
Each page has a list of the cases where you should pick the other tool. Some of them are common.Our facts from our docs
What ShipTiffin does comes from the docs. Every known gap is on What works and what doesn’t.One server, said plainly
A box is one server, and ShipTiffin is before version 1.0. If the server has a hardware fault, its apps are down until it is back. Managed boxes.
All your apps. One box. One price.
Setup takes about five minutes in your own Hetzner account. 14-day money-back.