Railway Alternative: Same DX, 80% Cheaper

Railway is fantastic for getting started. But usage-based pricing means your bill grows unpredictably. Here's the fixed-cost alternative.

Railway's Pricing Problem

Railway charges $5/mo base + resource usage:

• vCPU: $0.000463/min (~$20/mo for 1 vCPU)
• RAM: $0.000231/min per GB (~$10/mo for 1 GB)
• A basic app (1 vCPU, 1 GB): ~$30/mo
• Add a database: another ~$20-30/mo
• Real cost for a typical startup: $60-150/mo

RAW: Flat Rate, No Surprises

• $6/mo — 2 vCPU ARM, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe
• $11/mo — 4 vCPU ARM, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe
• $21/mo — 8 vCPU ARM, 16 GB RAM, 160 GB NVMe
• No per-minute billing. No bandwidth charges. Fixed monthly price.

For $21/mo on RAW, you get more compute than $150/mo on Railway. And you run your database on the same server — no extra cost.

Migration in 10 Minutes

# 1. Get your server
npx rawhq deploy --type raw-4

# 2. SSH in and install Docker
ssh root@your-ip
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh

# 3. Copy your docker-compose.yml
scp docker-compose.yml root@your-ip:/app/

# 4. Start everything
ssh root@your-ip "cd /app && docker compose up -d"

What You Get

Try It Free

npx rawhq deploy

7-day free trial. No credit card. 13 seconds to a running server.