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How Railyard compares.
Railyard next to a hosted platform and next to running your own servers by hand, feature by feature.
| Railyard | Managed PaaS | Kamal / Dokku | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Servers live in your own cloud account | yes | no | yes |
| No markup on compute | yes | no | yes |
| Choose the region and provider for your data | yes | partial | yes |
| Push-button deploy with live build logs | yes | yes | partial |
| Verify-then-swap zero-downtime releases | yes | yes | partial |
| Provision a new server from the interface | yes | yes | no |
| Managed addons with injected credentials | yes | yes | no |
| Backups with verified restores | yes | yes | no |
| Teams, roles, 2FA, scoped API tokens | yes | yes | no |
| Activity log of every change | yes | partial | no |
| Keeps running if the vendor disappears | yes | no | yes |
Side by side with one platform: Heroku · Railway · Render · Fly.io · Cloud 66 · Coolify
If you work alone and nobody else needs access, a config file and a terminal may be all you need.
What you'd pay each month.
Describe your app. Prices come from each provider's public pricing page.
Public list prices checked on October 13, 2026: Heroku · Render · DigitalOcean. Taxes not included. Railyard adds up the memory of your processes and databases and picks the smallest Droplet that fits.
No lock-in
Leave any time. Your apps keep running.
Your apps are plain containers on Linux servers behind a standard proxy. If you leave, you lose the dashboard and your apps keep serving. Moving in works the same way: deploy next to your current platform, then switch DNS.
- Deploy next to your current platform
- Prove it on a temporary URL
- Switch DNS when you're ready
Try it against the setup you already have.
The Free plan needs no card. Point it at a staging box and deploy something real before you decide.
Free plan, no card, and 14 days of Pro for every new team. One flat price per team.