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Vercel vs Railway pricing
Vercel vs Railway at five traffic levels
| Host | Side project · 10k views | Static blog · 300k views | Startup · 200k views, 3 devs | Growing SaaS · 2M views | Went viral · 20M views |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | $20 | $20 | $60 | $265 | $6,804 |
| Railway | $5.75 | $20 | $20.09 | $156 | $2,014 |
Monthly USD, commercial project, 1.5 MB per page view. Cheapest per column in green; hover for the plan.
Your numbers
= 300 GB transfer · 4M CDN requests · 400k function calls · 3 CPU-hours / month
Click a row for the breakdown. Monthly list prices in USD, before tax and credits.
FAQ
Is Vercel or Railway cheaper?+
Vercel is cheaper for static blog; Railway for side project, startup, growing saas, went viral. The calculator above prices your exact traffic; small teams with static sites and large teams with heavy server code often get opposite answers.
How does Vercel charge?+
Pro is $20 per deploying seat and includes $20 of usage credit plus a Flat Rate CDN tier (1M requests, 1 TB). Functions bill Active CPU ($0.128/h), provisioned memory ($0.0106/GB-h, 2 GB default) and invocations ($0.60/1M). Hobby is free but non-commercial and pauses at its limits.
How does Railway charge?+
Pure usage billing per second: $20 per vCPU-month and $10 per GB of RAM a month actually used, egress $0.05/GB, builds free. The plan fee (Hobby $5 for one developer, Pro $20 for a team) counts toward usage, so you pay whichever is higher. We assume 0.5 GB of RAM per replica.
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