Railway
vs
Scaleway
Both run managed containers, databases, object storage and serverless functions. Railway bills actual CPU and memory with cron jobs, while Scaleway charges less for VMs and adds VPS, Kubernetes and H100 GPUs inside the EU.
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
- All data centers in the EU
- Outbound traffic included on Instances
- GPUs from L4 up to B300, plus hosted AI models
- Managed Kubernetes, databases, serverless and Kafka
- Bare metal and Apple silicon servers
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Railway | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | $11.61 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | 61% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Medium VM | $160.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | $44.81 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | 72% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Large VM | $320.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | $190.43 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | 40% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | $10.57 /mo 100 GB SSD (Low Latency 5K) | 30% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Object storage | $15.00 /mo 1 TB | $19.87 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard Multi-AZ) | 25% cheaper on Railway |
| PostgreSQL | $87.50 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | $40.67 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO) | 54% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Redis | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | $39.05 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node) | 23% cheaper on Railway |
| Load balancer | Included in plan | $18.71 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo. | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $40.25 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress | $50.00 /TB $0.05 / GB | Free and unlimited Bandwidth caps based on instance size |
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
Scaleway offers 5 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Railway. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Railway | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
5 configs
|
-- | $3.24 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- | $8.47 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Scaleway only |
|
L40S
4 configs
|
-- | $1.66 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Scaleway only |
|
L4
4 configs
|
-- | $0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
P100
1 config
|
-- | $1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
Scaleway 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 | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | USA | France |
| Locations | 4 | 10 |
| Example customers | -- | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai |
| Website | railway.com | scaleway.com |
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Our data for Railway was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Scaleway on Oct. 2, 2026.