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Railway vs Vast.ai

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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

Vast.ai logo Vast.ai

  • Large pool of over 20,000 GPUs
  • Over 68 GPU types across 40+ data centers
  • Enterprise-grade security with SOC2 certification
  • Pre-built templates including PyTorch, CUDA, and TensorFlow

Price comparison

How do Railway's prices compare against Vast.ai?

VM Small

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

Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
Railway Railway
$160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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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
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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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
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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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)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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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
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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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
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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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
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Railway Railway
$50.00 $0.05 / GB
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Vast.ai logo Vast.ai Pricing Details

Vast.ai operates as a global marketplace where pricing is billed per second and broken into three components:

  1. Active rental cost for the GPU, charged only when an instance is running.

  2. Storage cost for allocated disk space, which applies as long as the instance exists (even when stopped).

  3. Bandwidth costs for data transfer.

GPU Fleet Overview

Starting Price

Railway Railway
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Vast.ai Vast.ai
$0.02/hr

Billing Options

Railway Railway
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Vast.ai Vast.ai
On-DemandSpotReserved (6mo)

Available Models

Vast.ai offers 56 GPU models.

Railway Railway
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H100(72) A100(120) H200(69) RTX Pro 6000(160) B200(19) V100(36) L4(16) RTX A6000(12) RTX 4090(260) RTX 6000 Ada(35)
View all 56 GPUs

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.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Railway and Vast.ai offer:

Service Railway Vast.ai
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
Vast.ai Vast.ai
vast.ai
Headquarters
Railway Railway
United States of America
Vast.ai Vast.ai
United States of America
Founded
Railway Railway
2020
Vast.ai Vast.ai
2018
Data Center Locations
Railway Railway
4
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Example Customers
Railway Railway
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Vast.ai Vast.ai
IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch

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Our data for Railway was last updated on March 26, 2026, and for Vast.ai on June 23, 2026.