Railway
vs
Vultr
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
- 30+ locations across six continents
- Nvidia and AMD GPUs, as VMs or bare metal
- Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey and Kafka
- Outbound traffic allowance on every plan
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Railway | Vultr | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | $5.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared) | 83% cheaper on Vultr |
| Medium VM | $160.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | $40.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared) | 75% cheaper on Vultr |
| Large VM | $320.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | $160.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | 50% cheaper on Vultr |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | $10.00 /mo 100 GB NVMe | 33% cheaper on Vultr |
| Object storage | $15.00 /mo 1 TB | $18.00 /mo 1 TB | 17% cheaper on Railway |
| PostgreSQL | $87.50 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | $60.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage | 31% cheaper on Vultr |
| Redis | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | $15.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Valkey) | 50% cheaper on Vultr |
| Load balancer | Included in plan | $10.00 /mo | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 0.5-15 TB / mo per instance | |
| Egress | $50.00 /TB $0.05 / GB | $10.00 /TB $0.01 / GB | 80% cheaper on Vultr |
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
Vultr offers 9 GPU models. We don't currently list GPU prices for Railway.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Railway | Vultr |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | Yes | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Merchant |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Railway | Vultr |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 | 2014 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 4 | 33 |
| Example customers | -- | Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield |
| Website | railway.com | www.vultr.com |
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Our data for Railway was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Vultr on Oct. 22, 2026.