Nova Cloud
vs
Railway
What's good about each
- Per-second billing with no contracts or minimum spend
- Owned-and-operated datacenters in Western Canada
- Reserved 1, 3, and 6 month terms for additional discounts
- 5 Gb/s network bandwidth with all ports available
- 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 | Nova Cloud | Railway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $160.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $320.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $15.00 /mo 1 TB | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $87.50 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | Included in plan | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | $50.00 /TB $0.05 / GB |
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.
GPUs
Nova Cloud offers 2 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Railway. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Nova Cloud | Railway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX PRO 6000
20 configs
|
$0.30 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | -- | Nova Cloud only |
|
RTX 5090
20 configs
|
$0.53 /GPU/hr Reserved (6 mo) | -- | Nova Cloud only |
Nova Cloud bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3 or 6 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
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 | Nova Cloud | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Canada | USA |
| Locations | 1 | 4 |
| Example customers | -- | -- |
| Website | nova-cloud.ai | railway.com |
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Our data for Nova Cloud was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for Railway on Sept. 18, 2026.