What's good about...
Alibaba Cloud
- Strong presence in Asia and over 3,000 points of presence (POPs) around the world
- Extensive range of managed services and server configurations
- Offers a solid range of GPU servers
Railway
- Billed by the second on actual CPU and memory utilization
- App Sleeping reduces costs on low-traffic workloads
- Self-owned hardware across US, EU, and Asia
- Template directory with 25% kickback for template authors
Price comparison
How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Railway?
VM Small
Closest config to 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM.
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Railway
VM Medium
Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
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Railway
VM Large
Closest config to 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (dedicated preferred).
Alibaba Cloud
Railway
Block Storage
Closest config to 100+ GB SSD, 3,000+ IOPS, 100+ MB/s throughput, no snapshots.
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Railway
Object Storage
Closest config to 1 TB stored, 100 GB in / 250 GB out, 1M GET, 100k PUT/POST.
Alibaba Cloud
Railway
Load Balancer
Closest config to TCP, 1 node (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM), 200+ Mbps, 1,000 conn/sec, 1 TB processed/mo.
Alibaba Cloud
Railway
Managed PostgreSQL
Closest config to 1 node, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50+ GB storage, 10 GB read / 5 GB write per month.
Alibaba Cloud
Railway
Managed Redis®*
Closest config to 1 node, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 req/s, 1 KB avg request size.
Alibaba Cloud
Railway
Free egress allowance
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Railway
1 TB of egress beyond allowance
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Railway
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Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Alibaba Cloud and Railway offer:
Company details
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| Website | www.alibabacloud.com | railway.com |
| Headquarters | Singapore | United States of America |
| Founded | 2009 | 2020 |
| Data Center Locations | 30 | 4 |
| Example Customers | Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers | -- |
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Our data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on June 23, 2026, and for Railway on March 26, 2026.