Railway vs Zeabur

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.

Zeabur describes itself as an AI DevOps engineer that handles deployments. It can deploy projects from GitHub, templates, Dockerfiles, Docker images, and local uploads; pushes to GitHub can trigger automatic deployment of updated code. Users can purchase VPS servers from listed cloud providers or manage servers they already own. Zeabur also offers domain registration and automatic DNS configuration, plus custom-domain email with API sending and receiving and delivery monitoring.

Developer tools include a GraphQL API, CLI, and REST endpoints for certain operations, including email. An MCP server lets compatible AI applications such as Claude Desktop or Cursor manage and deploy projects. The listed InsForge integration provides PostgreSQL, JWT authentication, S3-compatible storage, serverless edge functions, and MCP support, with separate pay-as-you-go billing. The Free plan includes one manageable own server, 2C4G build CI, 48-hour log retention, and 50 MB single-file uploads. Dev costs $5 a month after its first 14 days free; Pro costs $19 a month after the same period. Zeabur says it is pursuing SOC 2 Type II certification and encrypts customer connections with TLS 1.2 or higher.