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.

Netlify is cheaper by $10.00/mo (17%) for this workload. Switch presets or adjust the numbers above to see how the gap changes at different scales.

NetlifyPro

Lower cost
$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

$60.00/mo
Pro plan (3 seats)
$20/seat × 3 — includes $60 total resource credit
$60.00
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
$60 credit applied
$-41.48
Instance recommendation: 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM for your workload. Adjust in the advanced panel if your real instance is larger or smaller. Estimate uses 3 seats (editable in advanced panel). No per-seat charge on Cloudflare, Netlify, or Render. 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 2026-05 — 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/seat for teams.
  • Scale-to-zero on staging environments keeps development costs near zero.
  • Runs on Railway Metal (own hardware), not AWS — more pricing control and expanding global regions.
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