Comparison

Cloudflare vs Railway

Overview

Helping build a better Internet

Cloudflare is a cloud connectivity platform providing CDN, DDoS protection, DNS, Zero Trust security, serverless compute (Workers), and network-as-a-service at global scale.

Railway

Deploy anything. Ship everywhere.

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Railway is a developer-first cloud platform for deploying web apps, databases, and workers with instant GitHub-connected deployments, transparent usage pricing, and zero config.

Features

—CDN and performance
—DDoS protection
—DNS management
—Zero Trust access (SASE)
—Workers serverless platform
—Web Application Firewall
—Load balancing
—Bot management

—GitHub-connected deploys
—Managed databases (Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB)
—Private networking
—Horizontal scaling
—Cron jobs
—Persistent volumes
—CLI
—Team collaboration

Pricing

Cloudflare

freemiumFree plan available

Plan	Price	Notes
Free	Free	Free tier for personal or hobby projects.
Pro	$20/mo	Per domain/month billed annually; $25 monthly option.
Business	$200/mo	Per domain/month billed annually; $250 monthly option.
Contract	Contact sales	Custom annual pricing for mission-critical use cases.

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Railway

usage based

Plan	Price	Notes
Hobby	$5/mo	Includes $5 of usage credit.
Pro	$20/mo	Base monthly fee plus usage for higher limits and scale.
Enterprise	Contact sales	Custom support, security, and infrastructure options.

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