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Railway vs zrok
Railway provides full app deployment pipelines, whereas zrok is for secure tunneling/sharing.
Which to pick
Pick Railway if you want…
- All-in-one cloud deployment and scaling
- App deployment platform
- Integrations with GitHub, Docker or Railway CLI (on Railway's list, not zrok's)
Pick zrok if you want…
- Zero-trust peer-to-peer tunneling
- Open-source code (openziti/zrok on GitHub, Apache-2.0 license)
- Integrations with OpenZiti or GitHub OAuth (on zrok's list, not Railway's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Railway:Railway is a full-stack cloud platform that lets developers deploy apps, databases and services with automatic scaling, monitoring and networking.
- zrok:zrok provides zero-trust, peer-to-peer tunneling and secure sharing of apps, files and web content.
- Best for
- Railway:All-in-one cloud deployment and scaling
- zrok:Zero-trust peer-to-peer tunneling
- Who it’s for
- Railway:Developers and teams who want to ship web apps and services without managing infrastructure.
- zrok:developers and small teams needing instant secure tunnels or resource sharing.
- Pricing
- Railway:Freemium
- zrok:Freemium
- Plans
- Railway:Free Free · Hobby Free
- zrok:Free $0 per month
- Open source
- Railway:—
- zrok:Yes, 4,763 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Railway:GitHub, Docker, Railway CLI
- zrok:OpenZiti, GitHub OAuth
Railway features
- One-click Deploy. Connect a repo and Railway auto-configures, builds and deploys the app instantly.
- Visual Project Canvas. See and edit the entire stack, networking and resources on a visual canvas.
- Instant Networking. Private connections, public endpoints, SSL and load balancing are provisioned automatically.
- Auto Scaling & Replicas. Scale CPU, RAM or add replicas with load balancing, globally.
- Built-in Observability. Logs, metrics, traces and alerts are available in a single dashboard.
- Preview Environments. Every pull request gets an isolated preview environment with one-click rollbacks.
zrok features
- Instant Secure Tunneling. Creates private or public tunnels to expose local services instantly.
- Private & Public Sharing. Share resources privately between users or publicly via a URL.
- File & Drive Sharing. Beyond HTTP proxies, zrok can share files, drives and other web content.
- Built on OpenZiti. Leverages the open-source Zero Trust networking platform for encryption and authentication.
- Automatic TLS & Auth. Public shares get trusted HTTPS certificates and support Google/GitHub OAuth.
- Self-Hostable. Run the single binary on any infrastructure, from a Raspberry Pi to large clusters.
Railway vs zrok FAQ
Is Railway or zrok free?+
Railway has a free plan and paid plans. zrok has a free plan and paid plans.
Is Railway or zrok open source?+
zrok is open source (openziti/zrok on GitHub, Apache-2.0 license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Railway.
Do Railway and zrok integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Railway lists GitHub, Docker and Railway CLI; zrok lists OpenZiti and GitHub OAuth.
On DevHunt
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.