Qovery vs Railway
Qovery
qovery.com
Railway
railway.comSide by side
| Figure | Qovery | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $299/mo | $5/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 4 | 7 |
| Spec score · Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software | 8.0 (#11) | 8.8 (#3) |
| Spec score · Preview Environment Software | 8.1 (#17) | 8.9 (#4) |
| Spec score · PaaS tools | 7.9 (#18) | 8.8 (#3) |
| Spec score · Deployment Automation Software | 7.9 (#20) | 8.7 (#4) |
| Compliance | The security page lists SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, DORA, HDS, NIST, MAS TRM, and CPS 230 compliance. | Railway's Trust Center lists SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, HIPAA, GDPR EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework compliance information. |
| What it does | Qovery describes itself as a Kubernetes control plane for humans and AI agents, running on customers’ own infrastructure. | Railway is a cloud platform for deploying, managing and scaling applications, databases and infrastructure without users managing traditional servers. |
Plans
Qovery
- Team$299 a month
- Growth$899 a month
- Business$2,999 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
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
Qovery
Qovery is a Kubernetes control plane that runs on customers’ infrastructure and is designed for use by people and AI agents. It supports deployments on Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Scaleway, and Azure, with capabilities including GitOps, preview environments, rolling releases, rollback, and approval gates. Its documentation describes real-time logs, metrics, and Kubernetes events without setup. Qovery says its eight AI agent skills work across more than 30 tools, including Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and VS Code Copilot. The MCP Server starts in read-only mode; writes require enabling access in both a connection setting and a separate Console setting, and actions appear in an audit trail. Qovery says customer workloads, secrets, and application data stay in the customer’s cloud account. It reports encryption in transit and at rest, regular third-party penetration tests, and compliance coverage including SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, and DORA. Annual plans are listed at $299.00 per month for Team, $899.00 per month for Growth, and $2,999.00 per month for Business. Plans have deployment-minute allowances, and unused minutes do not roll over.
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.