Railway vs DigitalOcean: Feature Comparison | TechStackVS

Railway vs DigitalOcean

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At a Glance

Attribute	Railway	DigitalOcean
Category	Hosting	Hosting
Pricing Model	freemium	paid
Starting Price	Free / $5/mo	$4/mo
Free Tier	Yes	No
Open Source	No	No
Platforms	—	—

Community Popularity

Railway

75

DigitalOcean

82

Pros & Cons

Railway

Pros

The deployment experience is the closest to Heroku's one-click simplicity but with modern infrastructure and reasonable pricing+167
PostgreSQL, Redis, and MySQL are available as one-click services that connect to your app with auto-injected environment variables+152
Cron jobs, background workers, and web services all live in one project with shared environment variables — no separate tooling needed+128
The $5 hobby plan is the most reasonable entry-level paid tier I've found for always-on services that need a persistent process+113

Cons

No persistent disk for Docker containers on the default plan — stateful apps need an external volume or external storage service

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