Cosmos Cloud
by Cosmos Server · Self-hosted container platform with reverse proxy, SSO and an app store
BenchRank score
Screenshots of Cosmos Cloud
Homepage
Overview
Cosmos Cloud is self-hosting software you install on your own server, NAS or Raspberry Pi with a single script. It manages Docker containers through a built-in app store of 250+ applications and puts a reverse proxy with automatic SSL, single sign-on with 2FA, monitoring and backups in front of them. Paid tiers add a VPN, remote storage shares and disk backups.
- Best for
- Home users and small organisations wanting to self-host apps behind one secured web interface
- Pricing
- Free Community edition, then Home Premium at $99.00/year (shown as $8.25/month) or a $249.00 one-off lifetime licence.
- Runs on
- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Free tier covers reverse proxy, 2FA, monitoring and config backups
- App store with one-click installs for 250+ applications
- One-line install script; runs on a server, NAS or Raspberry Pi
- $249 one-off lifetime licence as an alternative to subscribing
Trade-offs
- Community edition limited to 5 users; paid tiers cap at 20
- Commons Clause licence — 'available source', not fully open source
- VPN, remote storage shares and disk backups are paid-only
- You supply, run and maintain the server hardware yourself
How Cosmos Cloud markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Cosmos Cloud’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Your Data”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Cosmos Cloud’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Cosmos Cloud pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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