Caddy vs Railway
On the evidence we track, Railway leads this comparison with a composite score of 81/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Features
The capabilities each product documents. These tools do not share a category taxonomy, so this aligns what each vendor states rather than a normalised feature set.
| Feature | Caddy | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic https acme | ✓ | - |
| Automatic tls acme | ✓ | - |
| Autoscaling | - | horizontal |
| Build system | - | dockerfile |
| Builtin caching | ✓ | - |
| Cli and api | - | ✓ |
| Clustering ha | ✓ | - |
| Container deploy | - | ✓ |
| Custom domains tls | - | ✓ |
| Dynamic config discovery | ✓ | - |
| Edge cdn | - | ✓ |
| Env secrets | - | ✓ |
| Git push deploy | - | ✓ |
| Hosting | - | both |
| Hot config reload | ✓ | - |
| Http caching | ✓ | - |
| License model | open-source | - |
| Load balancing | ✓ | - |
| Managed databases | - | ✓ |
| Module extensibility | compiled plugins | - |
| Native app execution | module-embedded | - |
| Preview deploys | - | ✓ |
| Rate limiting | ✓ | - |
| Regions | - | multi |
| Reverse proxy | ✓ | - |
| Rollbacks | - | ✓ |
| Runtimes | - | Multi-language support via Railpack auto-detection and templates |
| Tls termination | ✓ | - |
| Waf support | ✓ | - |
| Zero downtime reload | ✓ | - |
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Caddy
A multi-platform web server that automatically handles HTTPS/TLS provisioning for websites without manual certificate management. It serves as an HTTP reverse proxy with load balancing, dynamic routing, health checking, and REST-based configuration management.
Railway
LeaderA cloud deployment service that connects to your code repository, automatically builds and deploys applications, provides integrated databases and monitoring, and handles scaling and traffic management.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Caddy
Free and open-source; optional paid sponsorship for business support
- CommunityFree
- SponsorContact sales
Railway
LeaderFrom $5/month. Hobby plan starts at $5 base cost. Pro team plan at $20/seat plus usage-based billing. Usage-based charges for compute, storage, and network egress ($0.10/GB).
- TrialFree
- Hobby$5/month base plus usage
- Pro$20/seat/month plus usage
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Docker
Caddy
- Cloudflare
- Google Cloud DNS
- TencentCloud DNS
- Kubernetes
- Consul
- CrowdSec
- Umami
- Bunny CDN
- OAuth 2.0
- LDAP
- OpenID Connect
- SAML
- Google Cloud KMS
- etcd
- AWS
Railway
Leader- GitHub
- Slack
- Discord
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
Caddy or Railway: which one depends on you
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