Railway Pro vs Zeabur Pro
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Two subscriptions at the same step of their ladders, which is the only honest way to hold a tier beside a tier: neither price buys a runtime of a stated size, and both meter the compute on top. Zeabur Pro takes 1 of 4 rounds against Railway Pro. It is also the cheaper of the two, at $19/mo against $20/mo.
Monthly price (lower wins)
$20/mo
$19/mo
Price per GB of RAM (lower wins)
no size to divide by
no size to divide by
Memory
no size, the compute is metered
no size, the compute is metered
vCPU
not published
not published
Transfer included (more included is better)
none · metered per GB
not published
Build minutes included (more included is better)
not published
not published
Stops when idle (staying on wins)
always on
always on
Members covered (more members covered is better)
members not charged
1 seat
What the invoice adds
- A gigabyte of transfer$0.05 per GB vs not published
- Transfer includednone vs not published
- Build minutes includednot published vs not published
- A year at this price$240 vs $228
Railway, then Zeabur, at the published rates; a rate nobody publishes is not a rate of zero.
Go further
Add a third or fourth plan, or change the weighting, in the tool.
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Railway Pro or Zeabur Pro?
- Zeabur Pro, at $19/mo against $20/mo, both excluding tax and read on 1 Nov 2026. Over a year that is $228 against $240, before anything either platform meters on top.
- Which gives you more memory?
- Neither states a size: both are subscriptions with the compute metered on top, so the memory row is blank for each.
- Does either one stop when the app is idle?
- Railway Pro: always on. Zeabur Pro: always on.
- What does the monthly price leave out?
- Railway Pro: transfer none included and $0.05 per GB beyond it, builds not published, disk not published, members not charged. Zeabur Pro: transfer not published included and not published beyond it, builds not published, disk not published, 1 seat.
Every price is one month in the provider's own currency converted to dollars, read 1 Nov 2026 from each provider's own page, excluding tax. Transfer, build minutes, disks and members are metered on top wherever a platform says so, and none of those rates is folded into the figures above. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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