What's good about...

Railway logo 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

Railway logo Replicate

  • Run AI/ML models without having to manage the infrastructure
  • Excellent web UI to explore and try out models without code
  • Train and deploy custom models using Cog

Price comparison

How do Railway's prices compare against Replicate?

Example configuration Railway Replicate
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 $15.00 / 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 --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $50.00 $0.05 / GB --

Replicate uses a metered billing model. You only pay as long as your code is running, billed by the second based on the hardware selected.

Replicate GPUs

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
1x Nvidia T4 1x T4 16GB 4 16GB $0.81 Source
1x Nvidia L40S 1x L40S 48GB 10 65GB $3.51 Source
1x Nvidia A100 (80GB) 1x A100 80GB 10 144GB $5.04 Source
1x Nvidia H100 1x H100 80GB 13 72GB $5.49 Source
2x Nvidia L40S 2x L40S 96GB 20 144GB $7.02 Source
2x Nvidia A100 (80GB) 2x A100 160GB 20 288GB $10.08 Source
2x Nvidia H100 2x H100 160GB 26 144GB $10.98 Source
4x Nvidia A100 (80GB) 4x A100 320GB 40 576GB $20.16 Source
4x Nvidia H100 4x H100 320GB 52 288GB $21.96 Source
8x Nvidia A100 (80GB) 8x A100 640GB 80 960GB $40.32 Source
8x Nvidia H100 8x H100 640GB 104 576GB $43.92 Source

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 Railway and Replicate offer:

Service Railway Replicate
Block Storage --
GPU-powered Servers --
Managed Containers --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Managed Redis®* --
Serverless Cron Jobs --

Company details

Railway
Website railway.app
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2020
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers --
Replicate
Website replicate.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2019
Data Center Locations --
Example Customers BuzzFeed, Labelbox, PhotoAI, Character.ai, Magnific, Unsplash, HeadshotPro

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Our data for Railway was last updated on May 26, 2025, and for Replicate on June 12, 2025.