Contabo vs Railway

Contabo is strongest for budget-conscious developers. Railway is strongest for solo developers. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Contabo	Railway
Starting price	$3.23/mo	$5/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious developers Personal projects Storage-heavy workloads Self-hosters	Solo developers Side projects Small teams shipping to production Full-stack apps needing databases + services in one place
Stated uptime SLA	99.90%	Custom SLA available on Enterprise only; no public SLA percentage for Hobby/Pro
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	4	6
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum	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	Quoted monthly prices are the effective rate for a 24-month prepaid/contract term; shorter terms (1 or 12 months) cost more per month Additional IPv4 addresses, extra backup slots, and storage extensions are billed as add-ons Outgoing traffic is technically unlimited but subject to a fair usage policy that can throttle abusive/sustained high-bandwidth usage Support is ticket-only on lower tiers; phone support requires add-on	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