Try or ByeTry or Bye

Fly.iovsRailway

Platform52
vs
Platform55

Score Comparison

52
Overall
55
45
Pricing
45
60
Usability
85
80
Performance
55
40
Support
45
35
Reliability
50
50
Onboarding
90
65
Security
55
55
Integrations
65
Fly.ioRailway

Signals Comparison

Reliability

Fly.io

  • Frequent reliability and uptime issues(9/10)
  • Postgres database outages and crashes(9/10)
  • Deployment failures and hangs(7/10)
  • Infrastructure changes break deployments(8/10)
  • Apps and databases deleted without warning(10/10)

Railway

  • Recurring downtime and outages(9/10)
  • Services stop responding, require redeployment(8/10)
  • GitHub auto-deploy suddenly stops working(5/10)
Pricing

Fly.io

  • Pricing surprises and unexpected charges(8/10)
  • Aggressive billing with no alerts(8/10)
  • Free tier confusion and removal(6/10)

Railway

  • Free tier removed, only $5 trial credits(8/10)
  • Unpredictable usage-based billing(8/10)
  • Egress charges dominate bills for media apps(7/10)
Onboarding

Fly.io

  • Steep learning curve and complexity(6/10)

Railway

No signals

Customization

Fly.io

  • Limited plug-and-play services(6/10)

Railway

  • No built-in background job support(6/10)
  • No BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) support(6/10)
Support

Fly.io

  • Support tickets go weeks without response(6/10)

Railway

  • Slow customer support response times(7/10)
Performance

Fly.io

No signals

Railway

  • Slow and hanging deployments(7/10)
Integrations

Fly.io

No signals

Railway

  • PostgreSQL connection issues(6/10)
Security

Fly.io

No signals

Railway

  • No built-in edge protection or WAF(6/10)

Pricing Comparison

Fly.io

Hobby (Legacy Free)
Free

Users: 1 user

Storage: 3GB

Limits: Community support only, No billing alerts, Free allowances don't cap bills

No longer available for new orgs, Credit card required, Automatic charges for overages
Launch
Popular
$0/mo

Users: Unlimited

Storage: Usage-based

Limits: No priority support, No SLA, Complex pricing to predict

IPv4 $2/month per app, Volumes $0.15/GB/month (provisioned size), All compute charged even for internal apps
Scale
$29/mo

Users: Per org

Storage: Usage-based

Limits: Usage costs can still spiral unexpectedly

All compute costs additional, IPv4 and storage costs same as Launch
Enterprise
$0/mo

Users: Custom

Storage: Custom

Limits: Must negotiate pricing, Long contract terms typical

Requires sales engagement, Likely minimum commitment

Railway

Trial
Free

Users: 1 user

Storage: 1GB RAM limit

Limits: 1GB RAM limit, Shared vCPU, Credits expire in 30 days, No guaranteed support

Credits expire in 30 days, Must upgrade to Hobby to continue
Hobby
Popular
$5/mo

Users: 1 user

Storage: Usage-based

Limits: Community support only, No SLA, No team features, No RBAC

Usage-based charges beyond included credits, Egress at $0.05/GB, Memory and CPU charged per-second
Pro
$20/mo

Users: Per seat

Storage: Usage-based

Limits: Support response up to 72 hours, No dedicated infrastructure

$20 per additional team member, Usage charges beyond credits, Same egress pricing
Enterprise
$2000/mo

Users: Unlimited

Storage: Custom

Limits: Requires sales engagement, Long contract terms typical

$2,000/month minimum commitment, Feature-based pricing not discount-based

Feature Comparison

FeatureFly.ioRailway
Performance
Global edge deployment

35+ regions

Auto-scaling
Deployment
GitHub auto-deploy
Infrastructure
Firecracker micro-VMs
BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud)

Not supported

Databases
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis
Managed Postgres

Reliability issues reported

Pricing
Per-second billing
Billing alerts

Not supported

Networking
Private networking

WireGuard

Custom domains
Security
SSL certificates

Automatic

Built-in WAF/DDoS protection

Must use external service

Features
GPU support

For ML workloads

Background jobs

Requires separate service

Built-in queues/workers

Manual setup required

Configuration
Environment variables