Railway
vs
Runcrate
What's good about each
- 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
- Per-second GPU billing with no minimum commitment
- Eight global regions across North America, Europe, and Asia
- Full root access with SSH, Docker, and custom images
- OpenAI-compatible inference API for open-source models
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Railway | Runcrate | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $160.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $320.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $15.00 /mo 1 TB | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $87.50 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | Included in plan | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $50.00 /TB $0.05 / GB | -- Not listed |
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
Runcrate offers 14 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Railway. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Railway | Runcrate | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
1 config
|
-- | $3.25 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runcrate only |
|
H200
1 config
|
-- | $4.24 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runcrate only |
|
A100
2 configs
|
-- | $1.76 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runcrate only |
|
RTX 4090
1 config
|
-- | $0.78 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runcrate only |
|
L40S
1 config
|
-- | $1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runcrate only |
|
RTX 6000 Ada
1 config
|
-- | $1.26 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runcrate only |
|
L4
1 config
|
-- | $1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runcrate only |
|
RTX A6000
1 config
|
-- | $0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runcrate only |
|
V100
2 configs
|
-- | $3.04 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runcrate only |
|
A10
1 config
|
-- | $1.68 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runcrate only |
Runcrate 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.
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 | Railway | Runcrate |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 | 2024 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 4 | -- |
| Example customers | -- | -- |
| Website | railway.com | www.runcrate.ai |
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Our data for Railway was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Runcrate on Oct. 1, 2026.