Head to head
Supabase vs Railway
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
55/100Higher score | 50/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #3 | #3 |
| Confidence | High confidence | Medium confidence |
| External Reputation | 65 | 73 |
| AI Authority | 59 | 42 |
| Web Authority | 27 | 16 |
| Expert Assessment | 66 | 65 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Pro from $25/mo (additional projects from $10/mo) · free tier: $0/mo: unlimited API requests, 50,000 MAU, 500 MB database, shared CPU/500 MB RAM, 5 GB egress, 5 GB cached egress, 1 GB file storage, community support; projects paused after 1 week of inactivity, max 2 active projects, no backups/PITR/branching | Hobby $5/month minimum (includes $5 of monthly usage credits; charged even at zero usage) · free tier: Free $0/mo — starts as a 30-day trial with $5 one-time credit, then $1 free credit per month; 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service, 0.5 GB volume, 1 project, 3 services, 1 replica, 0 custom domains after trial, 3-day logs, no global regions, community support, no credit card required |
| Pricing model | Subscription with usage-based add-ons | Usage-based (per-second metering) with a minimum monthly subscription that includes usage credits |
| Best for | Small to mid-sized product teams with at least one SQL-comfortable engineer who need a relational database plus auth, storage and realtime from a single open-source vendor and want to ship fast. | Small-to-mid engineering teams migrating off Heroku or a request-metered host who run always-on containers, workers and their own database, and want per-second compute billing plus unlimited seats for a flat $20/month workspace fee — and solo developers at $5/month. |
| Avoid if | You are a non-technical builder, need SOC 2/ISO 27001/SSO/HIPAA at modest spend, require annual invoicing and procurement-friendly terms, want only a plain managed database, or cannot tolerate a billing dispute turning into a service suspension. | You need SSO, RBAC, extended audit logs or a HIPAA BAA without committing $1,000–$2,000/month, require a contractual uptime SLA with credits, want a genuinely usable permanent free tier, need to prepay rather than keep a post-paid card on file, or cannot tolerate workloads being stopped when a credit balance hits zero. |
| Markets | SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, Enterprise (custom tier) | Solo developers / indie hackers, SMB, Mid-market engineering teams, Enterprise |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.