Same polish. Any language. In the EU.
Railway is one of the best-designed deploy platforms in the world. velixir's pitch is different: we build your source in any language, we keep your data in the EU, and we charge fixed plan prices in euros. If you like Railway's UX but want European infrastructure and a bill you can predict, velixir is built for you.
Why teams switch from Railway to velixir
The specific reasons, not generic ones.
- European cloud with EU-only hosting. Railway is US-headquartered.
- Fixed plan prices in euros. Railway meters CPU and memory by the minute in USD (about $20 per vCPU and $10 per GB of RAM a month), so the bill moves with load.
- Unmetered bandwidth. Railway charges $0.05/GB of egress.
- Hands-on founder support, plus autoscaling and warm-standby HA built into the plans.
Side-by-side
Pricing checked October 2026. Specs reflect the closest equivalent plan in each direction.
| Dimension | velixir | Railway |
|---|---|---|
|
Smallest always-on tier
Railway's usage beyond the included amount is billed on top.
|
€3.49/mo (Hobby, 0.5 vCPU / 512 MB) | $5/mo Hobby, including $5 of usage |
|
2 GB app
Memory is billed at about $10 per GB a month.
|
€12.95/mo (Standard, 1 vCPU / 2 GB) | About $20/mo for 2 GB of memory alone, plus CPU used |
|
Where it runs
|
EU only | US-headquartered, with regions you choose |
|
Managed Postgres
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Managed service with point-in-time recovery, from €4.95/mo | Database templates on your services, billed by usage |
|
Managed Redis / Valkey
|
Valkey, first-party, from €2.45/mo | Redis template on a service, billed by usage |
|
Sign-up trial
|
Free tier (sleeps) plus first-month credit | $5 trial credit for 30 days, then a $1/mo free plan |
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Pricing model
Predictable euros vs metered dollars.
|
Hourly EUR, fixed plans | Usage-based USD |
|
Bandwidth / egress
Usage-based egress climbs under load; ours stays flat.
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Unmetered, no egress fees | $0.05/GB |
|
Roll back a bad release
Both fast.
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One click from deploy history | Redeploy a previous deployment |
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Founder & support
A direct line to the team running your platform.
|
Direct founder support | Generalist team |
Same workload, both sides
A 2 GB web app, a small Postgres database, and a small cache, running all month. Railway is billed on usage, so its side assumes memory fully used and CPU averaging a quarter of a vCPU for the app and a tenth for the database.
- App usage (2 GB memory, 0.25 vCPU average)
- $25.00
- Postgres usage (0.5 GB memory, 0.1 vCPU average)
- $7.00
- Postgres volume (10 GB)
- $1.50
- Redis usage (256 MB memory, 0.05 vCPU average)
- $3.50
- Per month
- $37.00
- Standard app (1 vCPU / 2 GB)
- €12.95
- Starter Postgres (0.25 vCPU / 512 MB)
- €4.95
- Starter Valkey (0.1 vCPU / 256 MB)
- €2.45
- Per month
- €20.35
At the ECB reference rate of €1 = $1.1206 (9 October 2026), velixir's €20.35 is about $22.80 a month: roughly 40% less than $37.00.
Railway's $5 Hobby fee counts towards usage, so it isn't added on top here. Egress at $0.05/GB would be extra.
List prices before tax, for a month of continuous running. Railway prices checked October 2026 on its own pricing pages; velixir prices are today's.
Like Railway, want it in the EU and billed in euros? Try velixir.
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