The Basics

Railway
Website railway.app
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2020
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers --
Render
Website render.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2018
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt

Cost Comparison

How do Railway's prices compare against Render?

Example configuration Railway Render
VM Small $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM $25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service)
VM Medium $160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM $175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service)
VM Large $320.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM $450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service)
Block Storage $25.00 / mo 100 GB $25.00 / mo 100 GB
Load Balancer Included in plan Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL $92.50 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage $95.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM $32.00 / mo 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance -- 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $100.00 $0.1 / GB $300.00

Note: These 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 Railway and Render offer:

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

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Our data for Railway was last updated on Feb. 19, 2024, and for Render on Feb. 29, 2024.