Ranking / Railway
Ranked #5 of 10 · 65 / 100
Railway
Usage-billed app and database hosting with a very fast start.
Vendor-hosted railway.com
Last reviewed
Verdict: The quickest way for a small team to get an app and its database running; look elsewhere once compliance or GPUs are on the list.
Best fitSolo developers and small teams who want the shortest path from a repo to a running app with its database.
Not forRegulated workloads without an enterprise contract, GPU workloads, and teams that need to run in their own cloud on a standard plan.
Strengths
- Per-second usage billing with small plan minimums.
- Databases and services side by side in one project canvas.
- High per-service limits on Pro (up to 1,000 vCPU / 1 TB RAM per service).
Limits
- HIPAA BAAs, SSO and bring-your-own-cloud are Enterprise features.
- No GPU instances on its pricing page.
- Vendor-hosted on standard plans.
What it costs
Free trial with $5 of credit for 30 days; Hobby $5 minimum usage and Pro $20 minimum usage a month, then per-second usage (CPU $0.00000772 per vCPU-second, memory $0.00000386 per GB-second); egress $0.05 per GB.
On the criteria
| Where apps run | Good | Vendor-hosted with global regions; bring your own cloud is listed under Enterprise. |
|---|---|---|
| Compliance | Good | SOC 2 and HIPAA BAAs appear in its plan comparison, with BAAs on Enterprise (custom pricing). |
| GPU support | None | No GPU instances listed on its pricing page. |
| Cost model | Strong | Published per-second rates with $5 and $20 monthly minimums that count as usage credit. |
| Ease of exit | Good | Builds from your repo or a Dockerfile; databases are standard engines you can dump and restore. |
| Operations handled | Strong | Push code, and builds, deploys, TLS and logs are handled. |
| Score | 65 / 100 | Rank 5 of 10. How the score is worked out. |
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