Hot Aisle vs Railway: Pricing & Features Compared (2026)

What's good about...

Hot Aisle

Simple, competitive pricing at $2.99/GPU/h
Self-serve platform with bare metal access
SOC2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliant
Hosted in a Tier 5 facility 100% powered by renewable energy

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 a 15% kickback for template authors, 25% with active support

Price comparison

How do Hot Aisle's prices compare against Railway?

VM Small

Hot Aisle

Railway

$30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM

VM Medium

Hot Aisle

Railway

$160.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM

VM Large

Hot Aisle

Railway

$320.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM

Block Storage

Hot Aisle

Railway

$15.00 /mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Hot Aisle

Railway

$15.00 /mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Hot Aisle

Railway

Included in plan

Managed PostgreSQL

Hot Aisle

Railway

$87.50 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage

Managed Redis®*

Hot Aisle

Railway

$30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Hot Aisle

Railway

$50.00 $0.05 / GB

Hot Aisle Pricing Details

Hot Aisle offers three tiers: Small (1x MI300X), Medium (2-4x MI300X), and Large (8x MI300X bare metal). VMs are priced at $2.99/GPU/hr, billed by the minute. The 8x bare metal tier is $3.39/GPU/hr with a one-month minimum commitment.

CPU cores scale with GPU count:

Small (1x): 8 or 13 cores
Medium (2x): 26 cores
Medium (4x): 52 cores
Large (8x): 64 or 102 cores

The full specs are available here.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Hot Aisle

On-DemandReserved (1mo)

Railway

Available Models

Hot Aisle offers 1 GPU model.

Hot Aisle

MI300X(6)

Railway

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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