OVHcloud vs Railway
Verdict up front: OVHcloud starts cheaper ($3.50/mo); OVHcloud covers more ground (40 regions). The right pick depends on workload — details below.
| OVHcloud | Railway | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $3.50/mo | $5/mo |
| Billing | monthly | usage |
| Regions | 40 | 4 |
| Free tier / trial | None | $5 monthly usage credit (trial) |
| Category | iaas, baremetal | paas |
OVHcloud
European giant with built-in anti-DDoS on everything
- + Anti-DDoS included free on all products
- + Huge dedicated-server catalog
- + Competitive storage pricing
- + Good EU coverage
- − Panel is notoriously clunky
- − Support quality varies by tier
- − US presence thinner than EU
Railway
Deploy-from-repo PaaS with usage-based pricing
- + Git-push deploys in seconds
- + Usage-based billing
- + Great DX + templates
- + Databases as first-class plugins
- − Costs scale unpredictably vs VPS
- − Fewer regions
- − No static IP on hobby tier