Kinsta vs Railway

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

Feature	Kinsta	Railway
Starting price	$35/mo	$5/mo
Best for	Managed WordPress Agencies High-traffic WordPress sites Enterprise WordPress	Solo developers Side projects Small teams shipping to production Full-stack apps needing databases + services in one place
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	Custom SLA available on Enterprise only; no public SLA percentage for Hobby/Pro
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	37	6
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Docs, MyKinsta dashboard	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	Overage per extra 1,000 visits above plan allowance billed per Kinsta overage schedule (not itemized on public pricing page) Premium Staging Environment add-on reported at $20/month per extra environment beyond the included free staging environment (figure from secondary source, not independently verified on a primary Kinsta page) CDN bandwidth overage reported at approximately $0.05/GB past plan allowance (figure from secondary source, not independently verified) Sevalla Application Hosting: egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (ingress free); build time billed at $0.0003333/second ($0.02/minute) Sevalla Database Hosting: disk space add-ons sold in 10 GB increments at $10/month per 10 GB; external egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (internal app-to-db connections free)	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