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Fly.io vs Railway

Railway is $5/mo cheaper.

That’s $60/year. Fly.io costs 2× as much.

Fly.io logo: Runs your app in VMs you can place close to users.
Fly.io logo: Runs your app in VMs you can place close to users.

Fly.io

Est. $10/mo

Runs your app in VMs you can place close to users.

Try it

Pros of Fly.io

  • You can run a normal server process

  • Machines can sit near the users who call them

  • A small app can scale to zero

Cons of Fly.io

  • You own the Docker image and the process

  • More setup than pushing a Next.js app to Vercel

Railway logo: Hosts apps, workers, and databases from a Git repo with little config.
Railway logo: Hosts apps, workers, and databases from a Git repo with little config.

Railway

Est. $5/mo

Hosts apps, workers, and databases from a Git repo with little config.

Try it

Pros of Railway

  • A backend and a database live in one project

  • You are not writing a long infrastructure file

  • Preview environments exist for branches

Cons of Railway

  • Less control than a VM on Fly or AWS

  • Usage pricing is harder to predict than a flat VPS