Railway vs Render

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

Feature	Railway	Render
Starting price	$5/mo	$0.25/mo
Best for	Solo developers Side projects Small teams shipping to production Full-stack apps needing databases + services in one place	Developers Startups Full-stack web apps APIs Small teams replacing Heroku
Stated uptime SLA	Custom SLA available on Enterprise only; no public SLA percentage for Hobby/Pro	99.95%
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	6	4
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	Docs, Community (Discord), Ticket (Pro), Business Class / dedicated support (Enterprise, paid add-on on Pro)	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Priority support on Pro/Scale/Enterprise
Compliance	SOC 2, GDPR	SOC 2
Hidden costs to watch for	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	Persistent disk storage billed separately at $0.25/GB/month Bandwidth overage billed per-GB beyond workspace plan allowance (best-available figure ~$0.15/GB, exact current rate not printed on fetched docs page) Additional custom domains beyond plan allowance billed at $0.25/month each Postgres storage overage billed at roughly $0.30/GB/month beyond included storage Instances billed by the second while running, so scale-to-zero / suspended services still show partial-month charges for the time they were up
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18