Cloudways vs Railway Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Micro
- 1GB RAM
- 1 vCPU
- 25GB NVMe Storage
- 1TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 4 Free AI Copilot Credits
- Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
Small
- 2GB RAM
- 1 vCPU
- 50GB NVMe Storage
- 2TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 4 Free AI Copilot Credits
- Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
Medium
Popular- 4GB RAM
- 2 vCPU
- 80GB NVMe Storage
- 4TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 4 Free AI Copilot Credits
- Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
Large
- 8GB RAM
- 4 vCPU
- 160GB NVMe Storage
- 5TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 4 Free AI Copilot Credits
- Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
8XL
- 128GB RAM
- 24 vCPU
- 2560GB Storage
- 11TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 4 Free AI Copilot Credits
- Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
Free Trial
- 1 WordPress Application
- 15GB Disk Space
- 30k Unique Visits
- 100GB Bandwidth
Small
- 1 WordPress Applications
- 15GB Disk Space
- 30k Unique Visits
- 100GB Bandwidth
Medium
Popular- 3 WordPress Applications
- 25GB Disk Space
- 70k Unique Visits
- 200GB Bandwidth
Large
- 3 WordPress Applications
- 15GB Disk Space
- 30k Unique Visits
- 100GB Bandwidth
Free Trial
- True Autoscaling
- Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
- Redis Caching
- Object Cache Pro + Relay
- Free Managed Migration
Growth
- True Autoscaling
- Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
- Redis Caching
- Object Cache Pro + Relay
- Free Managed Migration
Scale
Popular- True Autoscaling
- Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
- Redis Caching
- Object Cache Pro + Relay
- Free Managed Migration
Plus
- True Autoscaling
- Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
- Redis Caching
- Object Cache Pro + Relay
- Free Managed Migration
Enterprise
- Optimized resources for your traffic and usage patterns.
- Custom resource allocation and baseline capacity.
- Expert consultation to match plan to requirements.
Free
- Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 per month
- Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service
- 0.5 GB of volume storage
- Community support
Hobby
- Includes $5 of monthly usage credits
- After credits are used, you'll only be charged for extra resource usage
- Up to 48 vCPU / 48 GB RAM per service
- Up to 5 replicas, at 8 vCPU / 8 GB RAM per replica
- Up to 5 GB storage
- Single developer workspace
- Community support
- 99.9% Availability Target
- 7-Day Log History
- Global regions
Pro
Popular- Includes $20 of monthly usage credits
- After credits are used, you'll only be charged for extra resource usage
- Up to 1,000 vCPU / 1 TB RAM per service
- Up to 42 replicas, at 24 vCPU / 24 GB RAM per replica
- Up to 1 TB storage
- Unlimited workspace seats included
- Railway Support
- 99.99% Availability Target
- 30-Day Log History
- Concurrent global regions
Enterprise
- 90-Day Log History
- Single Sign-On
- 18-Month Audit Log Retention
- Role-Based Access Control
- HIPAA BAAs
- Support SLOs
- 99.999% Availability Target
- Highest compute limits
- Dedicated VMs
- Bring your own cloud
- Up to 2,400 vCPU / 2,4 TB RAM per service
- Up to 50 replicas, at 48 vCPU / 48 GB RAM per service
Cloudways vs Railway FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Railway is the cheaper option, starting at $5/mo vs $14/mo for Cloudways.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Both offer free plans, so you can try each without paying. Start with whichever fits your workflow better and upgrade when you hit the limits.
- How do they charge?
- Both use a usage-based model, so the comparison is straightforward — it comes down to features and limits at each price point.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Cloudways: Flexible sits below Kinsta and WP Engine on price but above raw cloud provider costs — they're selling the managed layer on top of DigitalOcean/AWS without the premium WordPress host markup. Autonomous competes more directly with Kinsta and Pressable, targeting teams who want autoscaling WordPress without enterprise pricing. Railway: Railway sits below Heroku and Render on entry price but competes directly with Fly.io and Render on the 'simple cloud for developers' positioning. The per-second billing and low base fees make it attractive for bursty or low-traffic workloads where you'd overpay on flat-rate platforms.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Cloudways and Railway and let you know when something moves.