How do Fly.io and Railway prices compare?

Fly.io: $30/month on Pay as you go at 1,500 GB bandwidth. Railway: $40/month on Hobby at 2 vCPU-months. Different billing units are not an equal-workload comparison. Estimates exclude unlisted add-ons and taxes.

Can storage and hosting costs be compared directly?

Not as one workload. Storage, bandwidth, requests and compute are separate billing units; estimates use independent controls when those units differ.

What can be missing from a hosting estimate?

Build minutes, CPU time, memory, requests, outbound transfer, team seats and regional charges may be outside the tracked component.

What features and free access does Fly.io list?

Global VMs, Postgres. Free access: Pay as you go. Check plan-specific availability and current terms on the provider's official pricing page.

What features and free access does Railway list?

Usage-based, Instant deploys, Templates. Free access: Trial credits. Check plan-specific availability and current terms on the provider's official pricing page.

Compute & Storage · side by side

Fly.io vs Railway

Compare Fly.io, Railway by compute, bandwidth, storage, deployment limits, regions and support.

Compute & Storage pricing calculator

These providers bill in different units. Each estimate uses its own workload; there is no same-volume price winner.

Fly.io

Bandwidth

1,500 GB

Railway

Monthly vCPU-months

Fly.io

$30 / mo

Pay as you go · 1,500 GB bandwidth

Railway

$40 / mo

Hobby · 2 vCPU-months

Listed USD plan fees and tracked usage only. Unlisted compute, transfer, extras, taxes and contract terms are excluded. Custom or unsupported plan usage is not estimated.

Compute & Storage overview & pricing

Compute & Storage	Fly.io	Railway
Provider	Fly.io	Railway
Billing unit	GB bandwidth	vCPU-months
Plan at selected usage	Pay as you go	Hobby
Monthly estimate	$30/mo	$40/mo
Workload	1,500 GB bandwidth	2 vCPU-months
Free access	Pay as you go	Trial credits
Published plans	Pay as you go, Standard support	Free, Hobby, Pro, Enterprise
Prices checked	Not listed	2026-10-08

Provider

Fly.io: Fly.io
Railway: Railway

Billing unit

Fly.io: GB bandwidth
Railway: vCPU-months

Plan at selected usage

Fly.io: Pay as you go
Railway: Hobby

Monthly estimate

Fly.io: $30/mo
Railway: $40/mo

Workload

Fly.io: 1,500 GB bandwidth
Railway: 2 vCPU-months

Free access

Fly.io: Pay as you go
Railway: Trial credits

Published plans

Fly.io: Pay as you go, Standard support
Railway: Free, Hobby, Pro, Enterprise

Prices checked

Fly.io: Not listed
Railway: 2026-10-08

Compute & Storage monthly cost

Fly.io: $30Railway: $40

Different workloads, separate estimates

Separate application hosting, serverless requests and object storage. A GB of storage is not a GB of egress. Budget for compute duration, requests, builds and network transfer where charged, and check region and minimum-spend requirements.

Compute & Storage feature comparison

Compute & Storage	Fly.io	Railway
Bandwidth / egress	$0.02/GB NA/EU	Not listed
Compute	Per-second Machines	Not listed
Storage	$0.15/GB volumes	Not listed
Builds & deploys	Remote builders	Not listed
Regions	35+ regions	Not listed
Team members	Unlimited	Unlimited
Uptime SLA		Not listed
Support	Community	Not listed
Projects	Not listed	50
Services per project	Not listed	50
CPU per service	Not listed	Up to 48 vCPU
RAM per service	Not listed	Up to 48 GB
Ephemeral disk	Not listed	100 GB
Volume storage	Not listed	Up to 5 GB
Volumes per project	Not listed	10
Buckets per project	Not listed	50
Cron jobs per project	Not listed	50
Build image size	Not listed	100 GB
Replicas per service	Not listed	Up to 6
Vertical autoscaling	Not listed
Horizontal scaling via replicas	Not listed
Railway Agent	Not listed
Default agent spend limit	Not listed	$20 / month
Sandboxes	Not listed
Running sandboxes per environment	Not listed	50
Default sandbox size	Not listed	4 vCPU / 4 GB
Maximum sandbox size	Not listed	8 vCPU / 8 GB
Idle timeout	Not listed	Up to 2 hours, or never
Checkpoints, forks, and templates	Not listed
Private networking and public domains	Not listed
Project members	Not listed	3
Team roles	Not listed	Admin, Member, Deployer
Real-time project canvas	Not listed
Preview environments	Not listed
GitHub repo deployment	Not listed
Docker Image deployment	Not listed
Local repo deployment with the Railway CLI	Not listed
Custom Dockerfile support	Not listed
Concurrent builds	Not listed	3
Config as code (TOML/JSON)	Not listed
Build timeout	Not listed	40 mins
Service variables and secrets management	Not listed
One-click rollbacks	Not listed
Redeploy or restart	Not listed
Configurable restart policy	Not listed
Healthcheck endpoints	Not listed
Deploy any open-source database	Not listed
Built-in database and volume backups	Not listed
IOPS	Not listed	3,000 read/write operations per second
Disk usage metrics	Not listed
Class A operations	Not listed	Free
Class B operations	Not listed	Free
Bucket egress	Not listed	Free
Max storage	Not listed	1 TB
Free Railway domains	Not listed
Custom domains	Not listed	2
Service domains	Not listed	4
Global regions	Not listed
Concurrent regions	Not listed
Private networking	Not listed
Wildcard domains	Not listed
Up to 100 Gbps private transfer	Not listed
Up to 10 Gbps public transfer	Not listed
Multiple IPv6 protocols	Not listed
TCP proxy	Not listed
HTTP proxy	Not listed
DDoS protection	Not listed
SMTP	Not listed
Build/Deploy logs	Not listed
CPU/RAM/Disk/Network metrics	Not listed
Log retention	Not listed	7 days
Log filtering, querying and structured logging	Not listed
Webhooks	Not listed
Configurable alerts	Not listed
Email alerts	Not listed
Hard and soft limits	Not listed
Audit logs	Not listed	48 hours
SOC 2 compliance	Not listed
Granular access control	Not listed
SSO	Not listed
HIPAA BAA	Not listed
Dedicated VMs	Not listed
Bring your own cloud	Not listed
Community support	Not listed
Priority support	Not listed

Bandwidth / egress

Fly.io: $0.02/GB NA/EU
Railway: Not listed

Compute

Fly.io: Per-second Machines
Railway: Not listed

Storage

Fly.io: $0.15/GB volumes
Railway: Not listed

Builds & deploys

Fly.io: Remote builders
Railway: Not listed

Regions

Fly.io: 35+ regions
Railway: Not listed

Team members

Fly.io: Unlimited
Railway: Unlimited

Uptime SLA

Fly.io
Railway: Not listed

Support

Fly.io: Community
Railway: Not listed

Projects

Fly.io: Not listed
Railway: 50

Services per project

Fly.io: Not listed
Railway: 50

CPU per service

Fly.io: Not listed
Railway: Up to 48 vCPU

RAM per service

Fly.io: Not listed
Railway: Up to 48 GB

Ephemeral disk

Fly.io: Not listed
Railway: 100 GB

Volume storage

Fly.io: Not listed
Railway: Up to 5 GB

Volumes per project

Fly.io: Not listed
Railway: 10

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Fly.io features & plan notes

Global VMs
Postgres

Full pricing Official Pricing API

Railway features & plan notes

Usage-based
Instant deploys
Templates
Includes $5 of monthly usage credits
After credits are used, you'll only be charged for extra resource usage
Up to 48 vCPU / 48 GB RAM per service
Up to 5 replicas, at 8 vCPU / 8 GB RAM per replica
Up to 5 GB storage
Single developer workspace
Community support
99.9% Availability Target
7-Day Log History
Global regions

Full pricing Official Pricing API

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