Railway
vs
Thalassa Cloud
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
- European cloud with data residency in the Netherlands
- Full Terraform support and API-first platform
- Billed by the minute, with monthly invoicing in Euro
- Direct engineer support in Dutch and English
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Railway | Thalassa Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | $9.44 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM | 3.2x more expensive on Railway |
| Medium VM | $160.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | $126.03 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | 21% cheaper on Thalassa Cloud |
| Large VM | $320.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | $256.39 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM | 20% cheaper on Thalassa Cloud |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | $20.53 /mo 100 GB NVMe | 27% cheaper on Railway |
| Object storage | $15.00 /mo 1 TB | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $87.50 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | $25.46 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (db-pgp.medium) | 3.4x more expensive on Railway |
| Redis | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | Included in plan | $17.19 /mo HA Network Load Balancer | |
| Egress | $50.00 /TB $0.05 / GB | -- Not listed |
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.
Company details
| Fact | Railway | Thalassa Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 | 2024 |
| Headquarters | USA | Netherlands |
| Locations | 4 | 1 |
| Example customers | -- | ContainerInfra, RepliKate, Balean, BrainHive, BaseTide |
| Website | railway.com | thalassa.cloud |
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Our data for Railway was last updated on Aug. 24, 2026, and for Thalassa Cloud on Feb. 12, 2026.