Our take
Pick Qovery if platform teams who will start the 14-day trial, then buy Starter at $299 / month (3 users, yearly) to put first environments on their own AWS / GCP / Azure / Scaleway — and step to Team at $899 / month when they need 10 users and staging + production monitoring. Pick Railway if app teams who will stay on Free $0 during the 30-day $5-credit trial (then $1/month, 1 project, 3 services) while they ship a
usage-metered deploy desk
Best for
Qovery Dev / prod environments on your own cloud
Railway A service you start at $0 / $1
Free plan
Qovery No free plan
Railway No free plan
Lowest paid
Qovery Not published by the vendor
Railway Usage (services) $0.00000386
Next step up
Qovery
Railway Sandboxes $0.00001929
Coding agent
Qovery
Railway Sandboxes
Runs where
Qovery
Railway Local; you host it
Watch out
Qovery Starter is $299 / month, not $0
Railway Free becomes $1/month after the 30-day $5-credit trial
Last checked
Qovery 2026-10-23 · qovery.com/pricing
Railway 2026-10-22 · railway.com/pricing
platform teams who will start the 14-day trial, then buy Starter at $299 / month (3 users, yearly) to put first environments on their own AWS / GCP / Azure / Scaleway — and step to Team at $899 / month when they need 10 users and staging + production monitoring.
Read the Qovery pageapp teams who will stay on Free $0 during the 30-day $5-credit trial (then $1/month, 1 project, 3 services) while they ship a first GitHub service, then land on Hobby at $5 minimum / month when they need 50 projects and 48 vCPU — or Pro at $20 minimum when they need 100 projects and 30-day logs.
Read the Railway page