Railway vs Supabase

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Railway

Super fast to deploy a container-based stack
You pay for actual usage, may result in big savings
Offers many deployment templates for common use cases

Supabase

Full PostgreSQL access: direct access to the database, not an abstraction
Open Source: Avoids vendor lock-in and can be self-hosted
Combines database, authentication, storage, and serverless functions in one platform
Generous free tier: suitable for small projects

Price comparison

How do Railway's prices compare against Supabase?

Example configuration	Railway	Supabase
VM Small	$30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM	--
VM Medium	$160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM	--
VM Large	$320.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM	--
Block Storage	$15.00 / mo 100 GB	--
Object Storage	--	$21.00 / mo 1 TB + 250 GB reads/writes
Load Balancer	Included in plan	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$92.50 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 8 GB Storage
Managed Redis®*	$30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM	--
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$50.00 / mo $2 per 1 Million (excl. free allowance)
Free egress allowance	--	5-250 GB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$50.00 $0.05 / GB	$90.00 $0.09 / GB

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Railway and Supabase offer:

Service	Railway	Supabase
Block Storage		--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)	--
Managed Containers		--
Managed MySQL		--
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*		--
Object Storage	--
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions	--

Company details

	Railway	Supabase
Website	railway.app	supabase.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2020	2020
Data Center Locations	4	16
Example Customers	--	Mozilla, GitHub, 1Password, Pika, Humata

	Railway
Website	railway.app
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2020
Data Center Locations	4
Example Customers	--

	Supabase
Website	supabase.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2020
Data Center Locations	16
Example Customers	Mozilla, GitHub, 1Password, Pika, Humata