Railway
vs
TheAI 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
- Bare metal nodes with root access, no virtualization
- Reserved terms from 1 to 24 months
- 400G InfiniBand per GPU on B300 nodes
- 3TB DDR5 per node, up to 32TB local NVMe
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Railway | TheAI Cloud | 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 | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $87.50 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | Included in plan | -- Not listed | |
| 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.
GPUs
TheAI Cloud offers 2 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Railway. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Railway | TheAI Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
B300
5 configs
|
-- | $4.90 /GPU/hr Reserved (24 mo) | TheAI Cloud only |
|
H200
3 configs
|
-- | $3.20 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | TheAI Cloud only |
TheAI Cloud bills reserved (1, 3, 6, 12 or 24 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Railway | TheAI Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 | -- |
| Headquarters | USA | UAE |
| Locations | 4 | 1 |
| Example customers | -- | -- |
| Website | railway.com | cloud.theai.com |
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Our data for Railway was last updated on Aug. 24, 2026, and for TheAI Cloud on Sept. 12, 2026.