OVHcloud vs Railway

OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. Railway is strongest for solo developers. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	OVHcloud	Railway
Starting price	$0.01/mo	$5/mo
Best for	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads	Solo developers Side projects Small teams shipping to production Full-stack apps needing databases + services in one place
Stated uptime SLA	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)	Custom SLA available on Enterprise only; no public SLA percentage for Hobby/Pro
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	33	6
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	No
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)	Docs, Community (Discord), Ticket (Pro), Business Class / dedicated support (Enterprise, paid add-on on Pro)
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)	SOC 2, GDPR
Hidden costs to watch for	IPv4 addresses billed separately per instance/Local Zone Windows license surcharge of $0.039/vCore/hour on top of base instance price APAC region (India, Singapore, Australia) outbound traffic loses free-egress status after 2026-06-01/2026-12-31 depending on product Object Storage Infrequent Access / Cold Archive / Active Archive have data-retrieval fees and minimum storage durations (30-180 days) with early-deletion penalties	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