Our take
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 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. Pick Vercel if frontend / Next.js teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 (personal, non-commercial, usage
usage-metered deploy desk
Best for
Railway A service you start at $0 / $1
Vercel Functions and static files you inspect at $0
Free plan
Railway No free plan
Vercel $0 · / month. Personal, non-commercial. Usage caps; cannot buy extra usage. 200 projects. 100 deployments / day. 50 domains / project. 1 hour runtime logs on the Hobby comparison we fetched
Lowest paid
Railway Usage (services) $0.00000386
Vercel Pro $20
Next step up
Railway Sandboxes $0.00001929
Vercel Add-ons we fetched $300
Coding agent
Railway Sandboxes
Vercel
Runs where
Railway Local; you host it
Vercel Hosted
Watch out
Railway Free becomes $1/month after the 30-day $5-credit trial
Vercel Hobby is personal / non-commercial
Last checked
Railway 2026-10-22 · railway.com/pricing
Vercel 2026-10-23 · vercel.com/pricing
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 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 pagefrontend / Next.js teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 (personal, non-commercial, usage caps) while they open a first Resources tab, then buy Pro at $20 / month (1 deploying seat + $20 usage credit) when they need commercial use, team roles, or on-demand usage.
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