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Beep vs Railway

A Railway alternative on your own servers.

Railway made deploying feel effortless, then billed every service by the minute. Beep keeps the push-to-deploy flow and runs it on servers you pay your provider for, with one flat plan per server.

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At a glance.

AspectBeepRailway
Pricing modelPer server: one flat plan, never per serviceUsage-based: each service is billed for the CPU, memory and egress it uses
Where apps runServers you choose: Beep Cloud or your own cloud accountRailway’s infrastructure
Preview environmentsOne per GitHub pull request, included from Developer upPR environments are billed like any other service
Side-projects stack$16.09/mo, server included≈ $40/mo

Railway and the rest, on one stack.

Seven small apps, two Postgres databases and an open pull request preview, under 100 GB of egress. Published list prices — no credits, no expiring free tiers.

Beep figure is the plan plus the Hetzner CX23 you pay the provider directly. Competitor figures use the smallest instance each service sells that keeps every app always-on; previews at their per-environment rate. Checked October 2026.

Monthly cost · side-projects scenariolower is better
Beep + Hetzner$16.09base
Railway≈ $402.5×
Vercel≈ $563.5×
Render≈ $684.2×
Fly.io≈ $945.8×

Read the bill

Four workloads, one flat plan each.

Per-service platforms charge for every app, database, worker and preview. Beep bills per server, never per service, and everything on the box rides along. Pick a workload and read the bill.

usebeep.sh
Invoice BP-0412
7 apps · 2 dbs · a preview
Server · Hetzner CX23, yours$7.09
Beep Developer, flat$9.00
Bandwidth · included with your server$0.00
Per app · per db · per preview$0.00
Total due$16.09 /mo
Same seven projects on Render≈ $68/mo
You keep$623 / yr

Which one fits?

Beep fits when

  • ✓You want many apps, databases and workers without a line item for each
  • ✓You want your apps on servers from a provider you choose
  • ✓You want push-to-deploy, previews and zero-downtime releases without running them yourself

Railway fits when

  • →You never want a server or cloud account of your own
  • →Your apps idle most of the day and usage billing stays tiny

Beep and Railway, answered.

Straight answers. Anything missing, ask us directly.

How is Beep different from Railway?

Railway runs your apps on Railway’s infrastructure and prices them usage-based: each service is billed for the CPU, memory and egress it uses. Beep runs them on servers you choose, from Beep Cloud or your own cloud account, and bills per server, never per service.

Can I move from Railway to Beep?

Yes. Connect a server, point Beep at your GitHub or GitLab repository and add your environment variables. Beep detects the stack with Railpack, or uses your Dockerfile or prebuilt image, and gives each service a URL with HTTPS before you move your domain.

Which plans include preview environments?

Developer and above. Active pull request previews are 3 on Developer, 10 on Team, and 25 on Business; Hobby has none. Each GitHub pull request gets its own environment on your servers, removed when the pull request closes.

Can I SSH into my servers?

No, and that’s deliberate. Beep manages each host end to end, so manual changes can’t conflict with its setup and Beep can stay responsible for security. To debug, open a shell inside any container from the dashboard, right next to your logs and metrics.

More comparisons.

Beep vs RenderOn Render every web service, worker and database is its own line item. Beep runs all of them on servers you choose, and the plan is billed per server, never per service.→Beep vs Fly.ioFly.io is great at running apps close to users, and every machine is metered. Beep runs your services together on servers you pick, from any provider, at a flat plan price.→Beep vs VercelVercel is built for front ends. When the stack grows long-running workers, cron jobs and databases, the bill grows with it. Beep runs the whole stack, front end included, on servers you control.→

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