4 months ago
I am looking at supporting a client with Railway because I love working with your service and. your team.
However, they require a HIPAA BAA right out of the gate and they are a startup.
Therefore, I'm having to also consider Render which comes in at about $250 - $300 / month for hosting in a HIPAA BAA environment.
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3 months ago
From today. I'm getting ready to start a new client project. I've already shared the direction toward Render with the client, but I do wish we were using Railway. This is for your benefit, not mine.
I'm still using Railway for my own projects.
Claude:
Concrete comparison (1 web service + 1 worker + Postgres + Redis, moderate load):
┌───────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
│ │ Render │ Railway │
├───────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ Non-HIPAA │ ~$84-159/mo │ ~$20-25/mo │
├───────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ HIPAA minimum │ ~$250-350/mo │ $1,000/mo committed spend │
└───────────────┴──────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
Railway wins on efficiency at low scale because you're not renting four separate fixed-tier instances. The costs converge at high utilization.
The HIPAA gap is what keeps Render in the conversation. Render's HIPAA floor is $250/mo (Organization plan + 20% surcharge). Railway's is a $1,000/mo committed spend. For a startup launching with modest traffic, that's $9,000/year in savings.
If Railway's HIPAA minimum weren't 4x higher, Railway would be the obvious choice given your familiarity with it.