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Comparison

Railway vs Stacktape

Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.

Comparison space

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Platform

Hosting model
BYOC
BYOC
Managed
Managed
Self-Hosted
Self-Hosted
Open source / license
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Open source / license
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Services
Authentication
Authentication
CDN
CDN
Compute
Compute
Databases
Databases
Functions
Functions
Infrastructure Automation
Infrastructure Automation
Load Balancing
Load Balancing
Object Storage
Object Storage
Queues
Queues
Workloads
APIs
APIs
Backend Services
Backend Services
Background Workers
Background Workers
Scheduled Jobs
Scheduled Jobs
Static Sites
Static Sites
Web Applications
Web Applications
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Compute Autoscaling
Deployment Rollbacks
Deployment Rollbacks
Preview Environments
Preview Environments
Scale to Zero
Scale to Zero
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments

Development & Execution

Deployment & packaging
Bare metal / VM
Bare metal / VM
Docker / OCI
Docker / OCI
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Runtimes
.NET Runtime
.NET Runtime
Bun
Bun
Custom Runtime
Custom Runtime
Deno
Deno
JVM
JVM
Node.js
Node.js
Languages
C#
C#
Go
Go
Java
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript
Kotlin
Kotlin
PHP
PHP
Python
Python
Ruby
Ruby
Rust
Rust
TypeScript
TypeScript
Frameworks
Astro
Astro
Django
Django
Express.js
Express.js
Fastify
Fastify
Laravel
Laravel
Next.js
Next.js
Nuxt
Nuxt
Remix
Remix
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails
Spring Boot
Spring Boot
SvelteKit
SvelteKit

Pricing

Billing basis
Plan based Railway Plans
Plan based Stacktape Plans
Software charge
$5 / month minimum Hobby
The custom-priced Enterprise plan includes a self-hostable Stacktape platform.
Starting price
$5 / month minimum Hobby
Percentage of AWS costs Flexible
Free entry / commitment
Recurring free allowances No card required
Recurring free allowances No card required

Infrastructure & Availability

Infrastructure provider
  • Railway Metal
  • Amazon Web Services
Supported providers
  • Railway Metal
  • Amazon Web Services
Placement control
  • Regional
  • Regional

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Access Control
Workspace and project roles, access groups, and scoped tokens Railway workspaces and projects
Generated IAM permissions and security-group rules Stacktape connectTo configuration in the customer AWS account; raw overrides remain customer-owned
Single Sign-On
SAML Enterprise
Unknown
Encryption & secrets
Secrets Management
Sealed write-only variables Railway projects
AWS Secrets Manager-backed $Secret references Stacktape configuration and deployment in the customer AWS account
Encryption in Transit
Unknown
Automatic AWS-managed TLS certificates Supported Stacktape resources and domains in the customer AWS account
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
Environment-isolated WireGuard network Railway project environments
Private services and generated VPC connectivity Stacktape-managed configuration in the customer AWS account
Assurances & programs
HIPAA
Eligible use BAA add-on and paid spend threshold required; customer safeguards apply
Unknown
SOC Reports
SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 Railway managed platform
Unknown