Vercel 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 $18.52/mo (31%) for this workload. Switch presets or adjust the numbers above to see how the gap changes at different scales.

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

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 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/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.

Compatible

MakerKit deploys to Vercel and Railway

Next.js 16 App Router with Dockerfile included — deploy to your preferred hosting platform without touching config.

Get MakerkitOne-time $349 — yours forever

Explore individual calculators: