Vultr vs Railway
Verdict up front: Vultr starts cheaper ($2.50/mo); Vultr covers more ground (32 regions). The right pick depends on workload — details below.
| Vultr | Railway | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $2.50/mo | $5/mo |
| Billing | hourly | usage |
| Regions | 32 | 4 |
| Free tier / trial | $100 trial credit (promo-dependent) | $5 monthly usage credit (trial) |
| Category | iaas | paas |
Vultr
High-frequency compute across 32 global locations
- + Very low entry price
- + Hourly billing
- + Bare-metal + GPU options
- + Broad region footprint
- − Bandwidth overage fees add up
- − Support is ticket-only
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