Koyeb vs Railway
Koyeb
koyeb.com
Railway
railway.comSide by side
| Figure | Koyeb | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $29/mo | $5/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 7 |
| Spec score · Platform As A Service Paas Software | 7.8 (#10) | 8.8 (#3) |
| Spec score · Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software | 7.9 (#15) | 8.8 (#2) |
| Spec score · PaaS tools | 7.8 (#19) | 8.8 (#3) |
| API and CLI | Koyeb provides a REST API and a command-line interface for managing resources and automating tasks. | Railway provides a GraphQL API with more than 100 methods and a Rust-powered CLI with more than 25 commands. |
| Integrations | Koyeb documentation lists integrations including GitHub, Terraform, Pulumi, coding agents, and database providers such as Aiven, MongoDB Atlas, Neon, and Upstash. | Official Railway integrations include ChatGPT, Codex, Claude, Claude Code, Grok, Cursor, and other AI assistant connectors. |
| Scaling | Services include native scaling and autohealing, and instances can automatically scale to zero when there is no incoming traffic. | Services can scale vertically, horizontally with replicas and across four global regions. |
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
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.