Fly.io vs Railway.
Prices checked
Fly.io and Railway sell nothing of the same shape; Fly.io starts at $2.19/mo and Railway at $5/mo, checked .
Where to start
Fly.ioall 6 prices It gives you a machine of your own, started and stopped in a second.
Starts at
$2.19/mo
shared-cpu-1x · 256 MB
Railwayall 2 prices It takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you.
Starts at
$5/mo
Hobby
Side by side
| Fact | Fly.io | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Kind of platform | Micro-VM | App platform |
| Prices published | 6 | 2 |
| Entry price | $2.19/mo | $5/mo |
| Free tier | none listed | none listed |
| Transfer per GB | 2¢ per GB | 5¢ per GB |
| One build minute | not published | not published |
| One extra member | not published | not published |
| A GB of disk a month | $0.15 per GB a month | 1.5¢ per GB a month |
Every shape both sell
Fly.io and Railway sell nothing of the same shape today: no runtime with the same stated memory and no subscription at the same step of both ladders. The table above is the honest comparison, and the compare tool puts any two of their plans side by side with the caveats attached.
How we count
Fly.io gives you a machine of your own, started and stopped in a second; Railway takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you. The two catalogues overlap without matching. What can be compared is the entry price, the free tier, what stops when the app is idle and what each one meters on top.
A shape is a runtime with the same stated memory at both, smallest first, or a subscription at the same step of both ladders. A seat and a gigabyte are never put in the same row.
Where one side of a row costs nothing, neither is marked as the cheaper: free is a limit rather than a price. What each platform meters on top is listed beside the prices and never folded into them, and a rate that is not published is not a rate of zero.
Frequently asked
- Is Fly.io cheaper than Railway?
- They sell no shape in common, so there is no size at which one is cheaper than the other. On the entry price it is $2.19/mo against $5/mo, read on 1 Nov 2026.
- What is the difference between Fly.io and Railway?
- Fly.io: You get a machine rather than a container: it boots in about a second, it stops when you stop it, and it costs nothing while it is stopped. That makes the monthly figure a ceiling rather than a bill, and it is the number this index carries, because a machine you leave running is what a month of hosting costs. Railway: You push a repository or an image and the platform builds it, runs it and keeps it running. There is no operating system to look after and no root, which is the point: the container is replaced rather than repaired. What you size is memory and a share of a processor.
- Does Fly.io or Railway stop your app when nothing calls it?
- Fly.io: it lists no free tier. Railway: it lists no free tier.
- What does each one charge on top of the plan price?
- Fly.io: transfer 2¢ per GB, builds not published, members not published. Railway: transfer 5¢ per GB, builds not published, members not published. A rate that is not published is not a rate of zero, and none of these is folded into the monthly figures above.
- How current are these prices?
- Both catalogues are read every 3 days. Fly.io was last read 1 Nov 2026 and Railway 1 Nov 2026; the whole index was refreshed 1 Nov 2026. Prices exclude tax, and a tier that costs nothing is listed here and is the cheaper of two nowhere.
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