Railway vs Scaleway

Railway is strongest for solo developers. Scaleway is strongest for european data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Railway	Scaleway
Starting price	$5/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Solo developers Side projects Small teams shipping to production Full-stack apps needing databases + services in one place	European data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads Startups and SMBs GPU/AI workloads Kubernetes
Stated uptime SLA	Custom SLA available on Enterprise only; no public SLA percentage for Hobby/Pro	99.9% to 99.99% depending on product tier
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	6	3
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	Docs, Community (Discord), Ticket (Pro), Business Class / dedicated support (Enterprise, paid add-on on Pro)	Ticket, Docs, Community Slack, Status page
Compliance	SOC 2, GDPR	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (French sovereign cloud qualification, select regions), HDS (health data hosting, France)
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	Public internet egress from Object Storage: 75 GB free per month, then EUR 0.01/GB Windows Server licensing surcharge on POP2-*-WIN instance variants (roughly 2.5x the equivalent Linux instance price) Dedicated Kubernetes control plane is a paid add-on (~EUR 80/month) above the free mutualized control plane if higher SLA/isolation is needed Snapshot storage for Block Storage billed separately per GB-hour Glacier (cold) Object Storage restoration fee: EUR 0.009/GB
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18