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Railway vs Vercel

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

The comparison in short

Cheapest per year

Railway

$60/yr

75% less than Vercel

Who has a free plan
  • Railwayhas a free plan
  • Vercelhas a free plan
Easiest to rebuild

Vercel

With trade-offs

multi-day

On price, Railway wins. If you would rather build it, Vercel is the simplest to rebuild.

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATIONRailwayHostingVercelHosting
Monthly billing$5/moHobby$20/moPro
Per year$60/yr$240/yr
Billing modelUsage-basedPer person
Free tierafter a 30-day $5 trial: $1 resource credit/month, 1 project, 3 services/project, 1 vCPU and 0.5 GB RAM/service, 0.5 GB volume, 1 replica, 3-day logs, and no custom domainsPersonal/non-commercial use: 1 developer, 1M edge requests/month, 100 GB transfer, 1M function invocations and 4 active CPU hours/month.
Additional costsUsage above included credit is $10/GB-month RAM, $20/vCPU-month, $0.05/GB egress and $0.15/GB-month volume storage; Object Storage is $0.015/GB-month. Agent tokens pass through at provider cost and use a default spend cap of $5 on Hobby or $20 on Pro.Pro overages include $2 per additional 1M edge requests and $0.15/GB transfer after included usage; new teams have a default $200 on-demand budget unless a hard limit is set. Add-ons include SAML SSO $300/month, HIPAA BAA $350/month, Advanced Deployment Protection $150/month, Static IP $100/project/month, Preview URL Suffix $100/month, extra microfrontend projects $250/month, Web Analytics Plus $10/month and Speed Insights $10/project/month.
Can you rebuild it?Worth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sittingWith trade-offsmulti-day
Free alternatives+1
Checked on10/20/202610/20/2026
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