Cloud Foundry vs Railway
Cloud Foundry
cloudfoundry.org
Railway
railway.comSide by side
| Figure | Cloud Foundry | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $5/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 0 | 7 |
| Spec score · Platform As A Service Paas Software | 8.4 (#4) | 8.8 (#3) |
| Spec score · Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software | 8.3 (#5) | 8.8 (#2) |
| Spec score · PaaS tools | 8.3 (#5) | 8.8 (#3) |
| What it does | Cloud Foundry is an open-source application platform for building, testing, deploying, and scaling cloud-native apps across a choice of clouds, frameworks, and languages. | Railway is a cloud platform for deploying, managing and scaling applications, databases and infrastructure without users managing traditional servers. |
Plans
Railway
- FreeFree
- TrialFree
- Hobby$5 a month
- Hobby$5 a month
- Pro$20 a month
- Pro$20 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Railway
Railway is a deployment platform for teams that want to provision infrastructure, develop locally against it, and deploy services to the cloud. Projects can start from Docker images, GitHub repositories, local repositories, container registries, or templates. Railway offers PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis database templates with built-in backups, plus persistent volumes with up to 5 TB of storage. Networking includes public and private options, TCP proxying, custom domains, and managed TLS certificates. Services can scale vertically, horizontally, and across four regions. Operational tools include logs retained for up to 90 days, configurable dashboards, distributed tracing, health checks, usage limits, and alerts. Teams can use unlimited environments, pull-request and preview deployments, GitHub branch deploys, approval gates, audit logs, and rollbacks. Railway also provides a GraphQL API, a CLI, and iOS and Android apps for deploying, monitoring, and managing services. The Trial plan includes a one-time $5 free credit; Hobby costs $5 a month and Pro costs $20 a month. Enterprise pricing is custom.