Hosted

Anyport vs Railway

Railway

Railway's

Railway Metal, their own data centres, in four regions.

Whose hardware

Anyport

Yours, or ours if you have none

Any Kubernetes cluster: in a cloud account, in a rack, or a bare Linux machine where Anyport installs k3s. Anyport Cloud runs one for you instead.

Railway is what most people mean by a modern PaaS: connect a repository and it builds and runs it on hardware Railway owns, in four regions, billed by the vCPU and the gigabyte it uses. If you have no servers and no wish to have any, that is the right shape. Anyport Cloud covers the same case at lower compute rates, $12 a vCPU and $6 a GB of memory a month against $20 and $10, in fewer regions and with smaller limits, and the rest of Anyport is built for the cluster you already own.

The two products differ on one thing, and it is not a feature. Railway sells compute. Anyport sells a control plane for compute you already have, and sells compute only to teams that have none. Most of the table follows from that, so the choice is a decision about where you want your bill to go.

01Common ground

What both of them do

This much both products do, so the table below is only about where they differ.

Connect a repository and every push builds and deploys.
Preview environments for pull requests.
Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB and Redis beside your applications.
Cron jobs, logs and metrics.
Automatic HTTPS on your own domains.
A CLI, an API and a config file the repository carries.

02The differences

Where they differ

Each row asks one question and sets the two answers across a seam. The highlighted row is the one this comparison turns on.

Railway	Question	Anyport
Railway A hosted PaaS Your code runs on Railway's hardware.	What it is	Anyport A hosted control plane Your code runs on your Kubernetes cluster.
Railway Railway's Railway Metal, their own data centres, in four regions.	Whose hardware	Anyport Yours, or ours if you have none Any Kubernetes cluster: in a cloud account, in a rack, or a bare Linux machine where Anyport installs k3s. Anyport Cloud runs one for you instead.
Railway $20 per vCPU, $10 per GB a month On top of the plan: Hobby $5, Pro $20, each with that much usage included.	What compute costs	Anyport Whatever you already pay for it Never metered on your own cluster. On Anyport Cloud, $12 per vCPU and $6 per GiB of memory a month, for what is used.
Railway On Railway Databases are services on the same hardware, with volumes at $0.15 per GB.	Where your data lives	Anyport On your cluster Managed databases run in your project's namespace, and backups go to a bucket you own.
Railway Serverless Turns down resource usage on inactive services.	Idle services	Anyport Pause a project or an app Manual, and a paused preview resumes on its next push. Nothing wakes on the next request.
Railway railway.json or railway.toml The build and deploy settings of one service.	Config in the repository	Anyport anyport.yaml The whole project: apps, services, tasks, domains, variables, and secrets by name only. Applied on push, and a pull request's preview gets its own.
Railway From $5 a month plus usage Free at $0 with $1 of usage. Hobby $5 and Pro $20 include the same amount of usage, then per-resource rates apply. Checked 2 October 2026.	Price	Anyport $5/mo or $50/yr 3 clusters free, then $2 a month each, billed by the hour. Compute on your own clusters is never metered.
Railway SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, HIPAA Listed on their trust centre. HIPAA BAAs on Enterprise.	Compliance	Anyport Not certified yet Controls are published in full on the security page instead.

03The decision

Which one to choose

Each list is written to be true. If the first one describes you, the better product is theirs.

Choose Railway if

You have no servers, do not want any, and need what Anyport Cloud does not offer: a choice of regions, a public TCP port, or services that sleep when idle.
Your app fits inside Hobby's $5 of included usage. On Anyport Cloud the $5 cluster fee spends Pro's included credit before your apps use any.
You want services that sleep when idle and cost nothing while they do.
A SOC 2 or HIPAA report is a gate in your review.

Choose Anyport if

You already pay for compute, in a cloud account or a rack, and want the Railway workflow on it rather than a second bill.
Your data has to stay on infrastructure you control, for a customer contract, a regulator or your own preference.
The usage bill outgrew the hardware it would take to run the same thing yourself, which is how most people arrive here.
Your clusters are somewhere no hosted platform can be: an edge site, a customer's network, behind NAT.
You have no servers either, and your apps have outgrown a hobby bill: Anyport Cloud is $5 a cluster a month plus $12 a vCPU and $6 a GiB of memory, against Railway's $20 and $10.

04In their words

What Railway is

Taken from their own documentation and pricing.

Railway builds from a repository or an image and runs the result on hardware it owns. Its Railway Metal page describes the platform migrating completely onto Railway-managed hardware in its own data centres, with regions in US West, US East, Europe West and Southeast Asia.

Pricing is a subscription plus usage. Free is $0 with $1 of usage included and a ceiling of 1 vCPU and 0.5 GB per service. Hobby is $5 a month with $5 of usage included, Pro is $20 a month with $20 included, and Enterprise is custom. Usage is $20 per vCPU a month, $10 per GB of memory, $0.15 per GB of volume and $0.05 per GB of egress.

Its config-as-code file, railway.json or railway.toml, covers the build and deploy settings of the service it sits beside. A TCP proxy exposes non-HTTP services to the internet. Serverless, formerly App Sleep, turns down idle services. Its trust centre lists SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 and HIPAA reports.

Nothing in its documentation offers a way to run Railway on a cluster or a server you own. That is an absence rather than a statement by Railway, and it is the reason this page exists.

05Questions

Questions people ask

Is Anyport a self-hosted Railway?

Close, with one correction. Anyport's control plane is hosted by us; only your workloads are self-hosted. What you run yourself is the Kubernetes cluster and the agent inside it. The console, the build triggers and the deploy history are ours to operate. If you want the control plane on your own machine as well, Coolify, Dokploy and Canine do that and Anyport does not.

Can I move an application from Railway to Anyport?

The workloads move as containers. Anything Railway builds from a Dockerfile or with Railpack builds the same way on your cluster, because Anyport builds with Railpack too. What does not move is the hardware: you need a Kubernetes cluster, or a Linux machine for Anyport to install k3s on, before the first deploy. With neither, a cluster on Anyport Cloud takes the same workloads at lower compute rates.

What does Anyport require of a cluster?

A Kubernetes cluster you can run one command against, or a bare Linux machine where Anyport installs k3s first. No inbound port, no public IP, no load balancer that can obtain one, and no kubeconfig handed to us. The agent opens a connection outward and holds it open. With no cluster at all, Anyport Cloud runs one for you on Pro, billed for what your apps use.

What does Anyport cost?

Three clusters are free with every feature and unlimited members, apps and projects. Pro is $5 a month with $5 of credit back each month; clusters past the free three are $2 a month each, and clusters on Anyport Cloud $5, billed by the hour. Compute on your own clusters is never metered because it is not ours, and the one counted resource there is traffic our gateway carries for clusters with no public address of their own: 10 GB a month free, 100 GB on Pro, then $0.02 per GB. A cluster on Anyport Cloud runs on our hardware instead and is billed for what your apps use, at $12 per vCPU and $6 per GiB of memory a month, from credit.

Is Anyport audited or certified?

Not yet. In place of a report, the security page documents what the agent runs with inside your cluster, what crosses the boundary and how secrets are stored, so a reviewer can evaluate the controls directly. Two of them hold regardless of certification: we never receive credentials for your Kubernetes API, and your workloads keep serving whether or not our control plane is reachable.

Start with three free.

Connecting a cluster is one command and takes a few minutes. Three clusters are free with every feature, and the pricing page works out what yours would cost.

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