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Railway vs SwissGPU

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What's good about...

Railway logo Railway

  • 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 25% kickback for template authors

SwissGPU logo SwissGPU

  • Per-minute billing, stops when server is powered off
  • Dedicated bare-metal, no shared VMs
  • Switzerland-hosted with low latency to EU
  • No storage or bandwidth charges
  • Stripe payments including TWINT

Price comparison

How do Railway's prices compare against SwissGPU?

VM Small

Closest config to 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM.
Railway Railway
$30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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VM Medium

Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
Railway Railway
$160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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VM Large

Closest config to 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (dedicated preferred).
Railway Railway
$320.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Block Storage

Closest config to 100+ GB SSD, 3,000+ IOPS, 100+ MB/s throughput, no snapshots.
Railway Railway
$15.55 / mo 100 GB
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Object Storage

Closest config to 1 TB stored, 100 GB in / 250 GB out, 1M GET, 100k PUT/POST.
Railway Railway
$15.00 / mo 1 TB ($0.015 / GB / mo)
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Load Balancer

Closest config to TCP, 1 node (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM), 200+ Mbps, 1,000 conn/sec, 1 TB processed/mo.
Railway Railway
Included in plan
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Managed PostgreSQL

Closest config to 1 node, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50+ GB storage, 10 GB read / 5 GB write per month.
Railway Railway
$87.82 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Managed Redis®*

Closest config to 1 node, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 req/s, 1 KB avg request size.
Railway Railway
$30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Railway Railway
$50.00 $0.05 / GB
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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SwissGPU logo SwissGPU Pricing Details

Per-minute billing in CHF; the server price is the only compute charge. Electricity billed separately at CHF 0.30/kWh, with a CHF 0.50 OS reinstall fee. Payments via Stripe, including TWINT.

GPU Fleet Overview

Starting Price

Railway Railway
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SwissGPU SwissGPU
$0.25/hr

Billing Options

Railway Railway
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SwissGPU SwissGPU
On-Demand

Available Models

SwissGPU offers 7 GPU models.

Railway Railway
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SwissGPU SwissGPU
RTX Pro 6000(1) RTX 4090(1) RTX 6000 Ada(1) RTX 5090(1) RTX 3090(1) RTX 4080(1) RTX 5080(1)

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Railway and SwissGPU offer:

Service Railway SwissGPU
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs

Company details

Website
Railway Railway
railway.com
SwissGPU SwissGPU
www.swissgpu.ch
Headquarters
Railway Railway
United States of America
SwissGPU SwissGPU
Switzerland
Founded
Railway Railway
2020
SwissGPU SwissGPU
2025
Data Center Locations
Railway Railway
4
SwissGPU SwissGPU
1
Example Customers
Railway Railway
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SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Our data for Railway was last updated on March 26, 2026, and for SwissGPU on May 13, 2026.

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