Railway
vs
Zeabur
Both run managed containers, Postgres, Redis and serverless functions. Railway charges less for egress and adds object storage, cron jobs and persistent volumes, while Zeabur charges less for VMs and charges for memory, not CPU.
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
- Easy to use dashboard
- Automated SSL, deployments, and PR previews
- Framework detection, no need to write Dockerfiles
- Pre-built templates for databases, caches and more including automated backups
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Railway | Zeabur | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | $10.80 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | 64% cheaper on Zeabur |
| Medium VM | $160.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | $86.40 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (team plan) | 46% cheaper on Zeabur |
| Large VM | $320.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | $172.80 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (custom/enterprise plan) | 46% cheaper on Zeabur |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | $20.00 /mo 100 GB | 25% 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 | Included in plan | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 10-100 GB, depends on plan | |
| Egress | $50.00 /TB $0.05 / GB | $100.00 /TB $0.1 / GB | 50% cheaper on Railway |
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.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
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 | Zeabur |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | USA | Singapore |
| Locations | 4 | 5 |
| Example customers | -- | ChatHub, Bytebase, PodWise, Kanaries Data, Matter Labo |
| Website | railway.com | zeabur.com |
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Our data for Railway was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Zeabur on Sept. 18, 2026.