IBM Cloud Code Engine vs Railway
Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.
Comparison space
Updated
Comparison facts
Platform
Hosting model
Managed
Supported
Managed
Supported
Services
Compute
Supported
Compute
Supported
Databases
Not supported
Databases
Supported
Functions
Supported
Functions
Supported
GPU Compute
Supported
GPU Compute
Not supported
Object Storage
Not supported
Object Storage
Supported
Workloads
APIs
Supported
APIs
Supported
Backend Services
Supported
Backend Services
Supported
Background Workers
Supported
Background Workers
Supported
Data Processing
Supported
Data Processing
Not supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Web Applications
Supported
Web Applications
Supported
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Deployment Rollbacks
Not recorded
Deployment Rollbacks
Supported
Preview Environments
Not recorded
Preview Environments
Supported
Scale to Zero
Supported
Scale to Zero
Supported
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Supported
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Supported
Development & Execution
Deployment & packaging
Docker / OCI
Supported
Docker / OCI
Supported
Kubernetes
Supported
Kubernetes
Not supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Runtimes
.NET Runtime
Supported
.NET Runtime
Supported
Bun
Not supported
Bun
Supported
Custom Runtime
Supported
Custom Runtime
Supported
Deno
Not supported
Deno
Supported
JVM
Supported
JVM
Supported
Node.js
Supported
Node.js
Supported
Languages
C#
Supported
C#
Supported
Go
Supported
Go
Supported
Java
Supported
Java
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
Kotlin
Not supported
Kotlin
Supported
PHP
Supported
PHP
Supported
Python
Supported
Python
Supported
Ruby
Supported
Ruby
Supported
Rust
Supported
Rust
Supported
TypeScript
Supported
TypeScript
Supported
Triggers
Event Streams
Supported
Event Streams
Not supported
HTTP Requests
Supported
HTTP Requests
Supported
Queue Messages
Supported
Queue Messages
Supported
Scheduled Invocation
Supported
Scheduled Invocation
Supported
Storage Events
Supported
Storage Events
Not supported
Pricing
Billing basis
Resource based
Plan based
Requests / executions
- Incoming HTTP requests — $0.538 · per 1 million HTTP requests
Unknown
Compute
- vCPU time — $0.00003431 · per vCPU-second
- Memory time — $0.00000356 · per GB-second
- Memory — $10 · per GB per month
- CPU — $20 · per vCPU per month
Free entry / commitment
Recurring free allowances
Recurring free allowances
Infrastructure & Availability
Infrastructure provider
- IBM Cloud
- Railway Metal
Execution & placement
- Execution: Single Region
- Execution: Multi Region
- Scope: Regional
- Execution: Single Region
- Execution: Multi Region
- Scope: Regional
Availability footprint
- 11 Regions
Unknown
Resource & Execution Limits
Execution time
Unknown
15 minutes
Memory
48,000 MB
Unknown
Concurrency
1,000
Unknown
Request payload
5 MB
Unknown
Security & Compliance
Access & identity
Access Control
IBM Cloud IAM and resource-level RBAC
Workspace and project roles, access groups, and scoped tokens
Audit Logging
Activity Tracker Event Routing
Unknown
Single Sign-On
Unknown
SAML
Encryption & secrets
Secrets Management
Project secrets for apps, jobs, and functions
Sealed write-only variables
Encryption in Transit
Managed HTTPS certificates and TLS 1.2+
Unknown
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
Private endpoints and context-based restrictions
Environment-isolated WireGuard network
Network Isolation
Project isolation based on Kubernetes namespaces
Unknown
Assurances & programs
HIPAA
Unknown
Eligible use
SOC Reports
Unknown
SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3