Comparison

Railway vs Supabase

Overview

Deploy anything. Ship everywhere.

Railway is a developer-first cloud platform for deploying web apps, databases, and workers with instant GitHub-connected deployments, transparent usage pricing, and zero config.

Supabase

Build in a weekend. Scale to millions.

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Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative providing Postgres database, authentication, file storage, edge functions, and real-time subscriptions as a managed service.

Features

—GitHub-connected deploys
—Managed databases (Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB)
—Private networking
—Horizontal scaling
—Cron jobs
—Persistent volumes
—CLI
—Team collaboration

—Managed PostgreSQL
—Authentication (email, OAuth, magic links)
—File storage
—Edge functions
—Real-time subscriptions
—Vector embeddings (pgvector)
—Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs
—Row-level security

Pricing

Railway

usage based

Plan	Price	Notes
Hobby	$5/mo	Includes $5 of usage credit.
Pro	$20/mo	Base monthly fee plus usage for higher limits and scale.
Enterprise	Contact sales	Custom support, security, and infrastructure options.

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Supabase

freemiumFree plan available

Plan	Price	Notes
Free	Free	Up to 2 active projects; paused after inactivity.
Pro	$25/mo	From $25/month plus usage-based scaling beyond included quotas.
Team	$599/mo	From $599/month with team security and compliance features.
Enterprise	Contact sales	Custom enterprise pricing.