Hosting · working at 10,000 users · rates as read 29 Sept 2026
On free tier, Railway does not publish it and Cloudflare Workers is Free: 100,000 per day. On cheapest paid plan, Railway is $ 5 minimum usage (Hobby) and Cloudflare Workers is $5.00 per month (Workers Paid). On rate above what's included, Railway is $ 0.05 per GB for services (egress) and Cloudflare Workers is +$0.30 per additional million requests, +$0.02 per additional million CPU milliseconds. StackTab sells neither of these and takes no referral fee on either: it scores them. Every figure was read off the named company's own page on or since 2026-09-28; the URLs and the dates are at the foot of this page, and a job re-fetches each one on a schedule and fails when a figure is no longer on the page it came from.
2 compared · 3 criteria, identical for every column · every competitor figure read off that company's own page · last verified 2026-09-28
| Service | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| RailwayContainers billed by the second, with a database next to them.verified 21 Sept 2026railway.com/pricing | $ | $ | $ |
| Cloudflare WorkersEdge functions with no egress charge at all.verified 21 Sept 2026developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing | $ | $ | $ |
- Sorted by the total at
- Containers billed by the second, with a database next to them.verified 21 Sept 2026railway.com/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
2121 Hobby - 10,000 users
- $
3131 Hobby - 100,000 users
- $
128128 Hobby
- Edge functions with no egress charge at all.verified 21 Sept 2026developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
00 Workers Free - 10,000 users
- $
00 Workers Free - 100,000 users
- $
1010 Workers Paid
| Criterion | Railway | Cloudflare Workers |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Not publishedRailway publishes no free plan. The cheapest entry is a 30-day trial with $5 of credits, "then $1 per month". | Free: 100,000 per day100,000 requests a day with a 10-millisecond CPU ceiling per invocation, and no charge for duration. |
| Cheapest paid plan | $ 5 minimum usage (Hobby)The $5 is a minimum spend that includes $5 of usage credit rather than a fee on top of usage. Pro is $ 20 minimum usage. | $5.00 per month (Workers Paid)10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds included. |
| Rate above what's included | $ 0.05 per GB for services (egress)Compute is billed by the second: $ 0.00000386 per GB/sec of memory and $ 0.00000772 per vCPU/sec. | +$0.30 per additional million requests, +$0.02 per additional million CPU millisecondsAnd nothing for bandwidth at any volume. That is a different pricing model rather than a discount, and it is the reason a media-heavy app lands here. |
“Not published” means that company does not state the figure on the page cited at the foot of this page. It is not a claim that no such figure exists. A company that publishes no limit most likely has none, but “most likely” is not a fact, and this table prints what was read rather than what was inferred.
- Free tier: what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words
- Rate above what's included: the per-unit or per-transaction rate the vendor publishes for usage beyond the plan: the figure you need to work out a bill before you commit to one
Railway does not state it on railway.com. Railway publishes no free plan. The cheapest entry is a 30-day trial with $5 of credits, "then $1 per month". Cloudflare Workers: Free: 100,000 per day. 100,000 requests a day with a 10-millisecond CPU ceiling per invocation, and no charge for duration. Read from railway.com and developers.cloudflare.com on 2026-09-28. Free tier here means what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words.
Railway: $ 5 minimum usage (Hobby). The $5 is a minimum spend that includes $5 of usage credit rather than a fee on top of usage. Pro is $ 20 minimum usage. Cloudflare Workers: $5.00 per month (Workers Paid). 10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds included. Read from railway.com and developers.cloudflare.com on 2026-09-28.
Railway: $ 0.05 per GB for services (egress). Compute is billed by the second: $ 0.00000386 per GB/sec of memory and $ 0.00000772 per vCPU/sec. Cloudflare Workers: +$0.30 per additional million requests, +$0.02 per additional million CPU milliseconds. And nothing for bandwidth at any volume. That is a different pricing model rather than a discount, and it is the reason a media-heavy app lands here. Read from railway.com and developers.cloudflare.com on 2026-09-28. Rate above what's included here means the per-unit or per-transaction rate the vendor publishes for usage beyond the plan: the figure you need to work out a bill before you commit to one.
Railway: You need a long-running process rather than a request handler: a queue worker, a websocket server, a cron that actually runs for ten minutes. Railway bills compute by the second, so an app that is busy in bursts costs what it used, and it will host the database next to it on the same bill. Cloudflare Workers: Bandwidth is your dominant cost. Cloudflare charges nothing for egress at any volume, which is not a cheaper rate than the others: it is the absence of the line that dominates their bills, and no amount of optimisation elsewhere closes that gap.
StackTab does not sell any of these and has nothing to gain from which one you choose: it scores them. Each case below is the one that option genuinely wins.
- Railway: You need a long-running process rather than a request handler: a queue worker, a websocket server, a cron that actually runs for ten minutes. Railway bills compute by the second, so an app that is busy in bursts costs what it used, and it will host the database next to it on the same bill.
- Cloudflare Workers: Bandwidth is your dominant cost. Cloudflare charges nothing for egress at any volume, which is not a cheaper rate than the others: it is the absence of the line that dominates their bills, and no amount of optimisation elsewhere closes that gap.
Prices and limits move, and a page quoting a stale one is worth less than a page quoting none. Every source is printed here so a reader can check it against the day they are reading this, and a job re-fetches each of these URLs on a schedule and fails when a figure above no longer appears on the page it came from.
- Railway: railway.com/pricing: Free tier, Cheapest paid plan, Rate above what's included. Read 2026-09-28.
- Cloudflare Workers: developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/: Free tier, Cheapest paid plan, Rate above what's included. Read 2026-09-28.
Last verified 2026-09-28. https://stacktab.thecompound.tech/compare/railway-vs-cloudflare-workers