Cloudways vs Railway

Cloudways is strongest for WordPress agencies. Railway is strongest for solo developers. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Cloudways	Railway
Starting price	$0.03/mo	$5/mo
Best for	WordPress agencies E-commerce (WooCommerce/Magento) Developers wanting managed infra without lock-in to one cloud	Solo developers Side projects Small teams shipping to production Full-stack apps needing databases + services in one place
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	Custom SLA available on Enterprise only; no public SLA percentage for Hobby/Pro
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	30	6
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	No
Support channels	Ticket, Live chat, Docs, Advanced Support (paid, $100/mo, 75% lifetime discount promo to $25/mo)	Docs, Community (Discord), Ticket (Pro), Business Class / dedicated support (Enterprise, paid add-on on Pro)
Compliance	GDPR	SOC 2, GDPR
Hidden costs to watch for	Bandwidth overages billed per-GB and vary by underlying cloud: DigitalOcean $0.02/GB, AWS $0.12/GB, GCP $0.10-$0.17/GB Offsite backup storage billed at $0.033/GB per server Cloudways Autonomous disk overage $1/GB and bandwidth overage $0.04/GB beyond plan baseline Cloudways Autonomous autoscaling billed $0.07-$0.12/hour/server depending on tier Add-ons (Cloudflare Enterprise CDN, Site Manager, Malware Protection, Rackspace Email, DNS Made Easy, Advanced Support) are all separate recurring fees not included in base server price	Usage above the plan's included credit is billed per-second at metered CPU/RAM/volume rates and can exceed the flat subscription fee quickly under load Network egress billed separately at $0.05/GB Pro plan is priced per-seat ($20/seat/month), so team cost scales with headcount on top of usage Business Class (priority) support is a paid add-on on the Pro plan
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18