What's good about...
Hetzner
- High performance VPS configurations at affordable prices (shared, high memory, dedicated CPU)
- Easy to use web console & developer tooling (Terraform SDKs, official CLI)
- EU-based company, may simplify GDPR compliance for some
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 Hetzner's prices compare against Railway?
Example configuration | Hetzner | Railway |
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VM Small | $4.91 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22) | $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM |
VM Medium | $8.82 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32) | $160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM |
VM Large | $21.27 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42) | $320.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM |
Block Storage | $5.66 / mo 100 GB | $25.00 / mo 100 GB |
Object Storage | $5.45 / mo 1 TB | -- |
Load Balancer | $6.93 / mo LB11 | 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 |
Free egress allowance | 20-60 TB / mo per instance | -- |
1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $1.09 €1 / TB | $100.00 $0.1 / GB |
Hetzner offers GPUs in the following configurations:
Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
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GEX44 | 1x RTX4000 | 20GB | 14 | 64GB | $0.38 | |
GEX130 | 1x A6000 | 48GB | 24 | 128GB | $1.74 |
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 Hetzner and Railway offer:
Service | Hetzner | Railway |
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Block Storage | ||
GPU-powered Servers | -- | |
Load Balancer | -- | |
Managed Containers | -- | |
Managed MySQL | -- | |
Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
Managed Redis®* | -- | |
Object Storage | -- | |
Serverless Cron Jobs | -- | |
Virtual Private Server (VPS) | -- |
Company details
Hetzner | Railway | |
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Website | hetzner.com | railway.app |
Headquarters | Germany 🇩🇪 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 1997 | 2020 |
Data Center Locations | 6 | 4 |
Example Customers | Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc | -- |
Hetzner | |
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Website | hetzner.com |
Headquarters | Germany 🇩🇪 |
Founded | 1997 |
Data Center Locations | 6 |
Example Customers | Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc |
Railway | |
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Website | railway.app |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2020 |
Data Center Locations | 4 |
Example Customers | -- |
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More comparisonsOur data for Hetzner was last updated on Oct. 7, 2024, and for Railway on Sept. 25, 2024.