Railway is a managed deployment platform billed by a plan fee plus per-second CPU, memory, storage and egress usage. Pages here cover moving to self-hosted Coolify, Dokploy or Dokku.
Comparing Railway with Coolify on your own servers: Railpack and Dockerfile builds against Coolify's Nixpacks, Railpack, Dockerfile and Compose build packs, one-click databases and backups, preview deployments, multi-region replicas and the cost model of each.
Railway's usage billing and managed regions against Dokploy on servers you rent: build types, databases with S3 backups, Docker Swarm clusters and remote build servers, team features in the paid tiers, and who handles patching and incidents.
Moving Railway services to Coolify: translating railway.json or railway.toml settings (build, start and pre-deploy commands, healthchecks, cron), rebuilding with the same Railpack or Dockerfile, dumping databases and volumes, and cutting over domains.
Cost of ownership by component: Railway's plan fee and per-second vCPU, memory, volume and egress rates, against rented servers running free self-hosted Coolify, plus the backups, monitoring and on-call time self-hosting adds.
Railway's single EU region is EU West in Amsterdam, and moving a service with a volume between regions means migration downtime. This page covers running services and databases in an EU location you choose with Coolify or Dokku.
Railway offers HIPAA BAAs only through Enterprise agreements. This page compares that route with running workloads in your own audited environment on Coolify or Kubernetes, and the safeguards, logs and access reviews you then own.
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