Railway
vs
Salad
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
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Railway | Salad | 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
Salad offers 35 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Railway. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Railway | Salad | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX 5090
2 configs
|
-- | $0.25 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 4090
2 configs
|
-- | $0.16 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 3090
2 configs
|
-- | $0.09 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 5060 Ti
2 configs
|
-- | $0.07 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 3060
4 configs
|
-- | $0.03 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 5080
2 configs
|
-- | $0.15 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 5070
2 configs
|
-- | $0.08 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 5070 Ti
2 configs
|
-- | $0.10 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 4070
2 configs
|
-- | $0.07 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 3080
2 configs
|
-- | $0.06 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
Salad bills on-demand and spot. 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 | Salad |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 4 | -- |
| Example customers | -- | Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai |
| Website | railway.com | salad.com |
Alternatives to consider
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Our data for Railway was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Salad on Oct. 2, 2026.