Railway vs Serversinc
Railway runs your services on its infrastructure and bills per second. Serversinc runs them on servers you own for a flat fee.
Checked against Railway's public pricing and docs on 2026-09-27.
What Railway is, and what Serversinc is
Both get your apps running. Here is how each one does it.
Railway is a managed platform. You connect a repo or an image, and Railway builds it, runs it and bills CPU, memory, volumes and egress by the second, on top of a plan fee from $5 a month. PR environments, replicas and one-click databases come built in.
Serversinc gives you a managed deploy flow on servers you own. Import a box or provision one on your cloud account, then deploy from GitHub or any registry. You pay £5 a month for your first three servers and £2 for each after, and the server bill stays with your provider.
What the bill looks like
Railway plans are Free, Hobby at $5 a month and Pro at $20 a month, and each fee includes the same amount of usage credit. Usage is billed per second: about $20 per vCPU and $10 per GB of memory a month, $0.15 per GB of volume and $0.05 per GB of egress.
- Platform fee
- Railway $5/mo Hobby, $20/mo Pro, each with matching usage credit Serversinc £5/mo for three servers
- Compute
- Railway Per second: about $20 per vCPU and $10 per GB of memory a month Serversinc Your server at your provider's price; run as many apps as fit
- Volumes
- Railway About $0.15 per GB a month Serversinc Your server's disk, not billed by Serversinc
- Egress
- Railway $0.05 per GB Serversinc Not billed by Serversinc; your provider's terms apply
- Seats
- Railway Unlimited on Pro Serversinc Up to 10, no seat charge
List prices in each vendor's own currency. Server costs from your cloud provider are billed separately on both sides unless stated.
Side by side
Deploys, databases, backups, alerts and automation.
- Where apps run
- Railway Railway's infrastructure in the US, Europe and Southeast Asia Serversinc Servers you own, at any provider and in any region they offer
- Sources
- Railway GitHub, Docker images, the CLI and templates; Compose files import as separate services Serversinc GitHub and Docker images from any registry
- Scaling
- Railway Replicas per service, up to 42 on Pro; PR environments Serversinc CPU and memory limits per application, on the server you choose
- Databases
- Railway Postgres, MySQL, Redis and MongoDB as services, billed on usage Serversinc Provision Postgres, MySQL or MariaDB with users, schemas and grants
- Backups
- Railway Volume backups held by Railway, restored into the same project Serversinc Scheduled database and volume backups to an S3-compatible bucket you own
- Server upkeep
- Railway Railway runs the hosts Serversinc The server is yours; Serversinc sets up routing, HTTPS and the agent
- Automation
- Railway GraphQL API, CLI and an MCP server Serversinc REST API, per-application deploy triggers and an MCP server
Both are good tools. Pick the one that fits.
Where each one is the stronger choice, stated plainly.
Pick Railway if
- You never want to own or patch a server.
- You want a PR environment for every pull request.
- Your services are small or idle, so usage billing stays under the plan credit.
- You want Redis or MongoDB next to your app in one click.
Pick Serversinc if
- Your services run all day, so a fixed server costs less than per-second usage.
- You want the bill to follow server count, not CPU, memory and egress.
- You want the machine, the data and the backups to be yours.
- You want MariaDB, or backups in a bucket you control.
Railway vs Serversinc, answered
Connect your first server
Import a server you already run, or provision one on your own cloud account. The first three servers are £5 a month.