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Render vs Railway
Two platforms that take your repo and run it: apps, workers, cron jobs and databases, no servers to manage.
Hosting & Deployment
Side by Side
| Render | Railway | |
|---|---|---|
| What It Is | Cloud platform for web services, static sites, cron jobs, workers and managed Postgres. | Infrastructure platform to deploy apps and databases from a repo with minimal config. |
| Category | Hosting & Deployment | Hosting & Deployment |
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| Pricing | See the official site. We only list verified pricing. | See the official site. We only list verified pricing. |
| Website | render.com | railway.com |
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The Short Version
Which One to Pick
Pick Render If
You want a wide menu of managed services, from web services and static sites to cron jobs, workers and Postgres, with a full-stack preview for every pull request.
More on RenderPick Railway If
You want to wire services together on a visual canvas, add Postgres, MySQL, Redis or MongoDB from a template, and drive it all from the CLI or your coding agent.
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