Comparison

Hetzner vs Railway

Overview

Powerful cloud and dedicated servers

Hetzner is a German cloud and hosting provider offering dedicated servers, cloud VMs, Kubernetes, and storage at highly competitive prices for developers and businesses.

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

—Cloud virtual machines
—Dedicated servers
—Managed Kubernetes (k3s)
—Block and object storage
—Load balancing
—Private networking
—Snapshots
—Firewalls

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

Pricing

Hetzner

usage based

Plan	Price	Notes
CAX11	$5.49/mo	Current US pricing after the April 1, 2026 cloud price adjustment.
CAX21	$9.49/mo	Current US pricing after the April 1, 2026 cloud price adjustment.
CAX31	$18.49/mo	Current US pricing after the April 1, 2026 cloud price adjustment.
CAX41	$36.99/mo	Current US pricing after the April 1, 2026 cloud price adjustment.
Dedicated servers	Contact sales	Separate server families and pricing; varies by hardware and region.

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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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