Netlify vs Railway

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Netlify

Specialized in Jamstack architectures: JS, APIs and Markup
Extensive functionality such as forms, edge functions and analytics
Generous free plan with 500 sites and 100 GB egress

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 Netlify's prices compare against Railway?

Example configuration	Netlify	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
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	$950.00 / mo 25M invocations (level 2 tier)	--
Free egress allowance	100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$550.00 Billed $55 / 100 GB	$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 managed services that Netlify and Railway offer:

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

Company details

	Netlify	Railway
Website	netlify.com	railway.app
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2014	2020
Data Center Locations	16	4
Example Customers	Twilio, Mattel, Google, Riot Games, Mailchimp	--

	Netlify
Website	netlify.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2014
Data Center Locations	16
Example Customers	Twilio, Mattel, Google, Riot Games, Mailchimp