What's good about...
Railway
- 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
How do Railway's prices compare against Salad?
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Block Storage
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Load Balancer
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Managed PostgreSQL
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Managed Redis®*
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance
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Salad Pricing Details
Salad bills per second while an instance runs, and charges nothing while a container group allocates or pulls its image.
GPU container groups are priced per GPU per hour at one of four priority levels, vCPU and RAM included. CPU-only groups bill per vCPU and per GB. Credits are prepaid, with volume discounts of 2-10%.
GPU Fleet Overview
Billing Options
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Available Models
Salad offers 35 GPU models.
RTX 5090Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Railway and Salad offer:
Company details
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| Website | railway.com | salad.com |
| Headquarters |
United States of America 
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United States of America
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| Founded | 2020 | 2018 |
| Data Center Locations | 4 | -- |
| Example Customers | -- | Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai |
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Our data for Railway was last updated on Aug. 24, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.