Netlify vs Railway

Side-by-side cost comparison — enter your workload and see which platform is cheaper for your traffic.

1. Pick a workload
Choose the preset closest to your project size.
2. Fine-tune (optional)
Override the preset values with your real numbers.
Railway is cheaper by $8.52/mo (17%) for this workload. Switch presets or adjust the numbers above to see how the gap changes at different scales.
NetlifyPro
$50.00/mo
Pro plan (3,000 credits)
Base subscription — unlimited members
$20.00
Bandwidth
214.6 GB × 20 = 4292 credits
$0.00
CDN Requests
790k × 2/10k = 1580 credits
$0.00
Functions Compute
22.2 GB-hrs × 10 = 222 credits
$0.00
Production Deploys
40 × 15 = 600 credits
$0.00
Credit overage (3 × 1,500 credits @ $10)
3694 credits over 3,000 → 3 packs × $10
$30.00
Total credits: 6694 / 3,000 included. 3694 overage → 3 packs × $10 = $30. Forms, Netlify Identity, background functions, AI inference, and split testing consume additional credits.
Rates verified 2026-05 — Netlify pricing page
RailwayPro
Lower cost
$41.48/mo
Pro plan
$20/mo flat — includes $20 resource credit, unlimited seats
$20.00
Compute — 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM
$20.00 CPU + $10.00 RAM
$30.00
Network Egress
214.6 GB × $0.05/GB
$10.73
Volume Storage
5 GB × $0.15/GB-mo
$0.75
Included Resource Credit
$20 credit applied
$-20.00
Instance recommendation: 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM for your workload. Adjust in the advanced panel if your real instance is larger or smaller. Pro includes unlimited seats, so team size does not change the Railway bill. Railway charges no per-request fees. Costs are purely compute + egress + storage — predictable scaling behavior. Database not included in this estimate. If you use Railway's managed Postgres add it at $10-40/mo depending on instance size.
Rates verified 2026-09 — Railway pricing page
What Netlify excels at
  • Credit-based pricing is predictable for low-to-medium traffic — no surprise per-request bills.
  • Built-in form handling, identity, A/B split testing, and branch deploys.
  • Large plugin ecosystem for build-time customizations.
  • Strong CI/CD with granular deploy contexts (production, branch, PR previews).
  • Unlimited team members on Pro — no per-seat charge.
What Railway excels at
  • Container-based (not serverless) — no cold starts, consistent latency.
  • Run your database, Redis, and background workers on the same platform.
  • Hobby plan at $5/month is excellent value for solo projects; Pro at $20/month flat with unlimited seats for teams.
  • Scale-to-zero on staging environments keeps development costs near zero.
  • Runs on Railway Metal (own hardware), not AWS, in 4 regions (US West, US East, EU West, Southeast Asia), with a built-in CDN since June 2026.
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