Railway
vs
Scaleway
Railway is a US-based fully managed PaaS with usage-based billing. Scaleway is a French cloud provider with a broader IaaS offering including VPS, bare metal, and serverless containers.
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
- Plenty managed services available, from queues to serverless to databases
- Wide range of server configurations: Bare-metal, ARM, GPUs, Apple silicon
- Uncomplicated, easy to use dashboard
- Based in Europe, may ease compliance requirements for some
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 | $11.92 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | 2.5x more expensive on Railway |
| Medium VM | $160.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | $45.97 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | 3.5x more expensive on Railway |
| Large VM | $320.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | $195.38 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | 39% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | $10.85 /mo 100 GB SSD · €0.00013 / GB / hour (Low Latency 5K) | 28% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Object storage | $15.00 /mo 1 TB | $18.36 /mo 1 TB (Standard Multi-AZ) | 18% cheaper on Railway |
| PostgreSQL | $87.50 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | $41.73 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO) | 2.1x more expensive on Railway |
| Redis | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | $40.06 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node) | 25% cheaper on Railway |
| Load balancer | Included in plan | $19.20 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo. | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $33.25 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress | $50.00 /TB $0.05 / GB | Free for most services 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
|
-- | $3.32 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- | $8.69 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Scaleway only |
|
L40S
4 configs
|
-- | $1.70 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Scaleway only |
|
L4
4 configs
|
-- | $0.91 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
P100
1 config
|
-- | $1.42 /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.
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 |
Alternatives to consider
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Our data for Railway was last updated on Aug. 24, 2026, and for Scaleway on Sept. 12, 2026.