Coolify 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.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for paas & hosting. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Coolify
Deploy applications, databases, and services to your own servers using an open-source alternative to commercial managed deployment platforms.
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.
Coolify
Free self-hosted tier. Cloud from $5/month (includes 2 servers) + $3/month per additional server; 20% discount for annual billing.
- Self-hostedFree
- Full access to all features
- No limitations or restrictions
- Community support
- Automated or self-managed updates
- All upcoming features included
- Cloud$5/month base (2 servers included) + $3/month per additional server; save 20% with annual billing
- Connect unlimited servers
- Unlimited deployments per server
- Free email alerts for Coolify events
- Community + limited email support
- Founder-tested updates
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.
- GitHub
- Docker
- Discord
Coolify
- GitLab
- Bitbucket
- Gitea
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Bitbucket Pipelines
- S3
- Telegram
- SMTP
Railway
Leader- Slack
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
Coolify or Railway: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.