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Railway vs Vercel pricing

What each charges for the same traffic, and what happens when a post goes viral.

Verdict at 100,000 pageviews a month: Railway comes to $24.77 and Vercel to ≥ $20 a month at 100,000 pageviews with our default traffic profile. At least one total leaves out unverified prices, so we don't call a winner. Viral day: Railway goes past its free limits, and its paid plan comes to $40.72; Vercel hits its free-tier cap (requests stop instead of billing), and its paid plan comes to ≥ $20.
Railway vs Vercel
RailwayVercel
TypePlatform (PaaS)Platform (PaaS)
Free tierFree $0 with $1/month usage credit (plus $5 one-time 30-day trial)Source · Oct 16Hobby $0 (personal, non-commercial; hard caps, no overage purchase)Source · Oct 16
Free bandwidthUnverifiedSource · Oct 16100 GBSource · Oct 16
Free requestsUnverifiedSource · Oct 161,000,000Source · Oct 16
Paid planHobbySource · Oct 16ProSource · Oct 16
Price$5/monthSource · Oct 16$20/monthSource · Oct 16
Included—1 TB transfer, 10M CDN requestsSource · Oct 16
Bandwidth overage$0.05/GBSource · Oct 16$0.15/GBSource · Oct 16
Requests overage—$2 per millionSource · Oct 16
Over the free limitBehaviour unverifiedHard cap

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Scenario
Traffic details2 MB pages · 20 requests · 10% dynamic · 30 deploys
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The always-on server is used for Railway, which bills a service that runs all month. Fly.io uses one small machine.

One month at your traffic. Totals use verified prices only; “≥” means some items are unverified and left out.

  1. Railway
    Hobby
    $24.77/mo
    Cheapest verifiedKeeps billingFree tier goes over its limits (what happens next isn’t stated) with this setup.
    How this is calculated
    Cost breakdown
    Hobby plan$5.00Source, Oct 16, 2026
    Egress
    195.31 GB × $0.05
    		$9.77Source, Oct 16, 2026
    vCPU (always on)
    0.5 vCPU × $20/month
    		$10.00Source, Oct 16, 2026
    Memory (always on)
    0.5 GB × $10/month
    		$5.00Source, Oct 16, 2026
    Included usage
    $5 of usage is included
    		−$5.00Source, Oct 16, 2026

    Railway bills actual use; this assumes your server runs all month at the vCPU and RAM you set.

  2. Vercel
    Pro
    ≥ $20/mo
    Keeps billingExcludes unverified itemsFree tier stops at its cap at ~50k pageviews/mo.
    How this is calculated
    Cost breakdown
    Pro plan (1 seat)$20.00Source, Oct 16, 2026

    Not included (unverified): Function invocations (included amount not in the data); Active CPU (included amount not in the data); Memory (included amount not in the data); Build minutes (included amount not in the data)

    Pro keeps billing past the included amounts; Vercel sets a default on-demand budget of $200, with an optional hard pause.

FAQ

Is Railway or Vercel cheaper for 100,000 pageviews a month?

Railway comes to $24.77 and Vercel to ≥ $20 a month at 100,000 pageviews with our default traffic profile. At least one total leaves out unverified prices, so we don't call a winner.

What happens to Railway and Vercel on a viral day?

On a month with one day at 50× normal traffic: Railway goes past its free limits, and its paid plan comes to $40.72; Vercel hits its free-tier cap (requests stop instead of billing), and its paid plan comes to ≥ $20.

Does Railway or Vercel have a hard cap on the free tier?

Railway's free tier: behaviour unverified. Vercel's free tier: hard cap.

Full details: Railway pricing · Vercel pricing