Fly.io
vs
Railway
Both run containers with managed Postgres, Redis and object storage. Fly.io charges less for VMs and egress and places apps near users on six continents, while Railway bills actual CPU and memory.
What's good about each
- Excellent tooling and developer experience
- Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
- Per-second billing, with a 40% discount for reserved compute blocks
- Anycast networking and global load balancing included at no extra cost
- 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 a 15% kickback for template authors, 25% with active support
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Fly.io | Railway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x) | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | 81% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Medium VM | $42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x) | $160.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | 73% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Large VM | $248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x) | $320.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | 23% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | Identical |
| Object storage | $20.50 /mo 1 TB (Tigris) | $15.00 /mo 1 TB | 27% cheaper on Railway |
| PostgreSQL | $86.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Starter) | $87.50 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | Within 5% |
| Redis | $20.00 /mo 1 GB data (Upstash Fixed 1GB) | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | 33% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Load balancer | Included with apps | Included in plan | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe) | $50.00 /TB $0.05 / GB | 60% cheaper on Fly.io |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Fly.io | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Data centers only | -- |
| HIPAA | Yes | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Fly.io | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 18 | 4 |
| Example customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase | -- |
| Website | fly.io | railway.com |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Railway on Sept. 18, 2026.