# 5050cloud and Railway

> Railway is a managed platform; 5050cloud brings its workflow to servers you run, with trade-offs in both directions.

Railway is a managed platform; 5050cloud brings its workflow to servers you run, with trade-offs in both directions.

## Same

The canvas, environments, staged changes, variable references, `railway.json`, Railpack builds, provided variable names, private `.railway.internal` names, deployment statuses and the CLI verbs.

## Where Railway is ahead

- Nothing to operate: no OS, hardware or backups to own.
- Global regions, an edge network, PR environments, app sleeping, buckets, functions, wildcard domains and managed database high availability features.
- Usage billing that is cheap for low average use: a project averaging 1 vCPU and 8 GB costs about $112.50 a month at list prices on 2026-10-22.

## Where 5050cloud is ahead

- Price at steady load: a workload using 4 vCPU and 16 GB around the clock costs about $252.50 a month on Railway and about $102 on a Hetzner CCX23 running 5050cloud (list prices on 2026-10-22; check current prices).
- Flat cost as traffic grows, until the box is full.
- Your data stays on your machines and your bucket.
- Static outbound IPs at no charge: your hosts' IPs.
- Open source: AGPL-3.0 server, MIT CLI.

## Moving

See [Coming from Railway](https://5050cloud.com/docs/coming-from-railway) and [Import from Railway](https://5050cloud.com/docs/guides/import-from-railway).