Deploy ON
50 ₾ / month
~$18.5
Application plan. Managed Postgres is a separate package — we do not pretend it is free inside the 50 ₾.
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Deploy ON vs Railway
Both take Git to a container URL. Railway meters RAM, CPU, disk, and egress. Deploy ON sells a monthly quota in GEL.
Price for the same app
Shop API. A small always-on Node.js API plus PostgreSQL. One custom domain, HTTPS, about 512 MB of RAM for the app, a small Postgres instance, and low traffic. Not a serverless frontend-only site.
Railway
~$18–30 / month
$18–30
Usage is the bill. The $5 Hobby or $20 Pro fee is a minimum that already counts toward usage.
A 512 MB app that holds that RAM all month is about $5. A quiet 0.15 vCPU is about $3. A 1 GB RAM Postgres is about $10. A 1 GB volume is $0.15. That is roughly $18 of usage before egress. Hobby includes $5 of that; Pro includes $20. The invoice is usually the usage number, not $5 plus usage.
List prices as of October 2026. Deploy ON in ₾; others in USD. FX used only as a hint: 1 USD ≈ 2.7 GEL. Sources: Railway pricing, Deploy ON plans.
Side by side
| Topic | Deploy ON | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | Fixed monthly package in ₾. Idle time is already paid for. | Usage: $10/GB RAM-month, $20/vCPU-month, $0.15/GB volume, $0.05/GB egress. |
| Runtime | Long-running containers on Deploy ON Kubernetes in Georgia. | Containers on Railway Metal / regions. Scales with what the process actually holds. |
| Databases | Managed Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB as a separate package. | First-class plugins, including HA options. Billed as more usage. |
| Build | Railpack / Nixpacks / Dockerfile. | Railpack / Dockerfile. Large template marketplace. |
| Domains | Platform host, custom domains, hosted DNS (ns1/ns2). | Custom domains and platform networking. No Deploy ON–style hosted DNS. |
| Regions | Workloads in Georgia. No global edge network. | Multiple regions. Better if users are far from the Caucasus. |
| Templates / agents | A short list of preconfigured apps. Agent/MCP docs are early. | Large template catalog and first-class agent / MCP docs. |
| API | REST + OpenAPI. CLI on npm. | GraphQL API and Railway CLI. |
| Compliance | ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 via Proservice. | Enterprise compliance on higher plans. Hobby/Pro are not ISO-labelled the same way. |
Pick Railway when
- You want a huge template catalog, agent workflows, or a region closer to the US or EU.
- You are fine reading a usage invoice and setting a hard spend limit.
- You need HA Postgres or very large volumes on a self-serve catalog.
Pick Deploy ON when
- You want one GEL invoice that does not grow while the process sits idle.
- Billing, support, and the cluster are with Proservice in Tbilisi.
- You already buy hosting from Proservice and want the app next to that relationship.
What we are not claiming
Railway is a real product with more regions, a larger ecosystem, and (in several cases) a lower sticker at the smallest size. Deploy ON wins when you want a GEL quota, a Georgian operator, ISO 27001 / 27017 via Proservice, and a process that stays up next to a database. It does not win at global edge, preview URLs, or a public template marketplace.