Oracle Cloud
vs
Railway
What's good about each
- 10 TB of free egress each month
- Same compute and storage prices in every region
- Flexible shapes with CPU and memory sized separately
- Oracle Database inside AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Always Free tier with Arm VMs and databases
- 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 | Oracle Cloud | Railway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $3.33 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex, 12.5% burstable) | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | 89% cheaper on Oracle Cloud |
| Medium VM | $44.64 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | $160.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | 72% cheaper on Oracle Cloud |
| Large VM | $89.28 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | $320.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | 72% cheaper on Oracle Cloud |
| Block storage | $4.25 /mo 100 GB (Balanced) | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | 72% cheaper on Oracle Cloud |
| Object storage | $26.49 /mo 1 TB | $15.00 /mo 1 TB | 43% cheaper on Railway |
| PostgreSQL | $119.65 /mo 2 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.E5.Flex) | $87.50 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | 27% cheaper on Railway |
| Redis | $27.94 /mo 2 GB RAM (OCI Cache, Valkey) | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | 7% cheaper on Oracle Cloud |
| Load balancer | Free Network Load Balancer | Included in plan | |
| Serverless | $31.57 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 10 TB / mo | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $8.50 /TB $0.0085 / GB (North America, Europe) | $50.00 /TB $0.05 / GB | 83% cheaper on Oracle Cloud |
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
Oracle Cloud offers 15 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Railway. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Oracle Cloud | Railway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
1 config
|
$10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Oracle Cloud only |
|
B300
1 config
|
$15.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Oracle Cloud only |
|
B200
1 config
|
$14.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Oracle Cloud only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
$4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Oracle Cloud only |
|
H200
1 config
|
$10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Oracle Cloud only |
|
A100
2 configs
|
$3.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Oracle Cloud only |
|
GB200
1 config
|
$16.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Oracle Cloud only |
MI355X
1 config
|
$8.60 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Oracle Cloud only |
|
MI300X
1 config
|
$6.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Oracle Cloud only |
|
GB300
1 config
|
$18.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Oracle Cloud only |
Oracle Cloud bills on-demand. 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.
| Framework | Oracle Cloud | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Yes | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | Yes | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | Yes | -- |
| FedRAMP | High, US Government Cloud | -- |
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 | Oracle Cloud | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2016 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 45 | 4 |
| Example customers | Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia | -- |
| Website | www.oracle.com | railway.com |
Alternatives to consider
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Our data for Oracle Cloud was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Railway on Sept. 18, 2026.