What's good about...

Cloudflare logo Cloudflare

  • Consolidates many edge services under one platform: DNS, Load Balancing, caching, image optimization, serverless functions
  • Massive edge network that can handle large DDoS attacks
  • Very generous free tier, affordable paid plans

Cloudflare logo Railway

  • Super fast to deploy a container-based stack
  • You pay for actual usage, may result in big savings
  • Offers many deployment templates for common use cases

Price comparison

How do Cloudflare's prices compare against Railway?

Example configuration Cloudflare Railway
VM Small -- $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
VM Medium -- $160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM
VM Large -- $320.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM
Block Storage -- $25.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $19.86 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer -- Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL -- $92.50 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®* -- $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions $82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free for most services $100.00 $0.1 / GB

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Cloudflare and Railway offer:

Service Cloudflare Railway
Block Storage --
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
Load Balancer --
Managed Containers --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Managed Redis®* --
Object Storage --
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions --
Static Sites --

Company details

Cloudflare
Website cloudflare.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2009
Data Center Locations 285
Example Customers Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify
Railway
Website railway.app
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2020
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers --

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Our data for Cloudflare was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for Railway on July 24, 2024.