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Alternatives to Railway

Railway is the modern indie-feeling PaaS for full-stack apps. These alternatives compete on price, control, and self-hosting.

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Founded 2020

San Francisco, USA

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Railway is a great alternative to

Tools in our directory that Railway can replace or compete with.

Top indie alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Railway.

Render

Cloud for any app.

Founder-led PaaS — Railway's most direct competitor.

$7/mo

Fly.io

Run servers close to your users.

Smaller team, global edge deploys.

Pay as you go

Northflank

Build & scale anything.

Founder-led PaaS with a polished UI.

Pay as you go

Coolify

Self-hosted Heroku & Vercel.

Open-source, self-host on your own VPS.

OSSOSSBootstrapped

Dokku

Self-hosted Heroku clone.

Run buildpacks on any server, free and OSS.

OSSOSS

CapRover

Self-hosted PaaS.

Free OSS Heroku alternative you control.

OSSOSS

Sevalla

Modern PaaS for any app.

Smaller, modern alternative for app + DB hosting.

$10/mo

Sliplane

Simple Docker hosting.

Indie European team, flat-rate Docker hosting.

$9/moBootstrapped

Kamal

Open-source deploy tool.

DHH's open-source deploy tool — your own server, no PaaS.

OSSOSS

DigitalOcean App Platform

Managed apps on DO.

Predictable pricing, smaller than the hyperscalers.

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