Vercel vs Railway

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

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2. Fine-tune (optional)

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VercelPro

$60.00/mo
Pro plan (3 seats)
$20/seat × 3 — includes $60 total usage credit
$60.00
Fast Data Transfer
214.6 GB / 1 TB included
incl.
Edge Requests
7.90 M / 10 M included
incl.
Fast Origin Transfer
7.63 GB × $0.06/GB
$0.46
Function Invocations
0.40 M × $0.60/M
$0.24
Active CPU
~8.9 CPU-hrs (40% of duration assumed)
$1.14
Provisioned Memory
22.2 GB-hrs
$0.24
Build Execution (Turbo)
160 min × $0.126/min
$20.16
Monthly usage credit
$22.23 of $60 total credit applied
$-22.23
Active CPU estimated at 40% of total duration — typical for I/O-bound Next.js routes. Estimate uses 3 deploying seats — each additional seat adds $20/month and $20 credit. Excludes ISR writes/reads, Image Optimization, Edge Config, and WAF — can add 10–30% on image/ISR-heavy apps.
Rates verified 2026-05 — Vercel 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 Vercel excels at

  • Zero-configuration Next.js deployment — every new framework feature works on day one.
  • Preview deployments for every pull request, out of the box.
  • Fluid Compute: pay only for active CPU time, not wall-clock duration — I/O wait is free.
  • 1 TB bandwidth included on Pro before any overage kicks in.
  • Built-in Skew Protection prevents version mismatch errors on deploys (Pro+).

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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