Railway
vs
Supabase
Both offer managed Postgres, object storage, cron jobs and serverless functions. Railway charges less for egress and runs containers, while Supabase charges less for Postgres and adds auth, realtime sync and vector search.
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
- Direct SQL access to a full Postgres database
- Entire stack is open source and self-hostable
- Auth, storage, realtime and edge functions included
- Free tier covers a 500 MB database and 50k monthly users
- SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA compliance
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Railway | Supabase | 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 | $21.30 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress · 250 GB egress is within the plan allowance | 30% cheaper on Railway |
| PostgreSQL | $87.50 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | $67.15 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Medium) · $60 Medium compute, 50 GB disk, 10 GB egress | 23% cheaper on Supabase |
| Redis | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | Included in plan | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $50.00 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration · Billed per invocation only | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 5 GB (Free), 250 GB (Pro and Team) | |
| Egress | $50.00 /TB $0.05 / GB | $90.00 /TB $0.09 / GB | 44% cheaper on Railway |
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.
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 | Supabase |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 4 | 17 |
| Example customers | -- | Lovable, Brevo, eXp Realty, Chatbase, QA.tech |
| Website | railway.com | supabase.com |
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Our data for Railway was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Supabase on Sept. 18, 2026.