Railway
vs
Thunder Compute
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
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Railway | Thunder Compute | 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 | $21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included | 31% cheaper on Railway |
| 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 | Free and unlimited |
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
Thunder Compute offers 4 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Railway. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Railway | Thunder Compute | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
4 configs
|
-- | $3.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | Thunder Compute only |
|
A100
4 configs
|
-- | $1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | Thunder Compute only |
|
RTX A6000
1 config
|
-- | $0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand | Thunder Compute only |
|
L40
4 configs
|
-- | $0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | Thunder Compute only |
Thunder Compute bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Railway | Thunder Compute |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 | 2024 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 4 | 1 |
| Example customers | -- | Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health |
| Website | railway.com | www.thundercompute.com |
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Our data for Railway was last updated on Aug. 24, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Sept. 12, 2026.