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Railway vs Vercel

Railway is $15/mo cheaper.

That’s $180/year. Vercel costs 4× as much.

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

Vercel logo: Hosting that builds a preview URL for every Git push, especially Next.js apps.
Vercel logo: Hosting that builds a preview URL for every Git push, especially Next.js apps.

Vercel

Est. $20/mo

Hosting that builds a preview URL for every Git push, especially Next.js apps.

Try it

Pros of Vercel

  • A branch gets a URL without extra setup

  • Next.js features work without a custom server

  • Connects to the GitHub repo directly

Cons of Vercel

  • Long-running workers and custom VMs are a poor fit

  • The bill climbs once you leave the hobby limits