/ compare — railway
Railway-grade simplicity. Enterprise-grade scale.
Railway nailed the indie-hacker workflow. We picked up where their roadmap stops: real RBAC, real multi-region, real BYOC, and infrastructure built for teams that grew past their first 10 customers.
Side by side
Same workload, same audience. Where each platform wins.
| Feature | Avahana | Railway |
|---|---|---|
Git-driven deploys | ||
Project / service organization | ||
Database breadth Both support Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, Redis. | ||
PR preview environments | Soon | |
Auto-scaling | Soon | |
Multi-region | Soon | |
RBAC / fine-grained permissions | yes (planned for GA) | |
SSO / SAML | yes (Scaler tier) | |
BYOC (your AWS/on-prem) | ||
Air-gapped / Sovereign | ||
Real-time per-minute metering | partial | |
Transparent egress pricing | ||
MicroVM isolation |
When Railway is the right call
- Solo developers and side projects: Railway's UX is best-in-class for one-person teams.
- Greenfield prototyping: ship a quick MVP today; we'll be ready when you outgrow it.
- Tight buildpack support for unconventional stacks (Elixir, Crystal, etc.) — Railway has wider coverage at MVP.
Migrate when you're ready.
Get on the waitlist. We'll publish a per-platform migration guide as we approach beta.