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Fly.io vs Railway

Compare global microVM compute, serverless Postgres attachments, usage-based execution costs, and deployment developer experience.

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Fly.io

Developer Tools

Public application platform running physical servers around the world for low-latency compute.

Verified Changes: 6Pricing Shifts: 0
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Railway

Developer Tools

Instant infrastructure deployment platform with serverless databases and automatic scaling.

Verified Changes: 9Pricing Shifts: 1

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Fly.io Latest Updates

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featureSep 3, 2026

Your Agent Speaks MCP. Give It a Computer.

<div class="lead"><p>Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practically nothing when idle. They’re the best and safest place on the Internet to run age...

➔ Updated platform deployment with Your Agent Speaks MCP. Give It a Computer..
featureJul 24, 2026

Turn And Face The Strange

<div class="lead"><p>We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite way to safely let a frontier agent coding harness cook. This is a post about our com...

➔ Updated platform deployment with Turn And Face The Strange.
featureJun 8, 2026

Building Agents that Don't Break Themselves

<div class="lead"><p>Building agents is fun. Rebuilding agents that break themselves… less so. A lot of Fly people are building agents with less of a penchant for self-destruction by teaching their agents to do anything ...

➔ Updated platform deployment with Building Agents that Don't Break Themselves.
featureJan 29, 2026

Litestream Writable VFS

<div class="lead"><p><strong class="font-semibold text-navy-950">I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. It’s free, open-source software that shoul...

➔ Updated platform deployment with Litestream Writable VFS.
featureJan 14, 2026

The Design & Implementation of Sprites

<div class="lead"><p>We’re Fly.io, and this is the place in the post where we’d normally tell you that our job is to <a href="https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/" title="">take your containers and run them on our ...

➔ Updated platform deployment with The Design & Implementation of Sprites.
featureJan 9, 2026

Code And Let Live

<div class="lead"><p>The state of the art in agent isolation is a read-only sandbox. At Fly.io, we’ve been selling that story for years, and we’re calling it: ephemeral sandboxes are obsolete. Stop killing your sandboxes...

➔ Updated platform deployment with Code And Let Live.

Railway Latest Updates

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securitySep 30, 2026

Incident Report: September 30, 2026: Domain Routing Disruption

Railway experienced a platform-wide domain routing failure lasting five minutes. During this window, all new connection requests to hosted domains resulted in 404 errors.

➔ Domains returned 404 errors for all new connection attempts.
featureSep 30, 2026

How to Deploy and Scale Docker Containers on Railway in 2026

Deploy a Docker container on Railway from a Dockerfile or a pre-built image, then learn how Railway builds and caches images, how to scale with replica limits and regions, what Docker workloads cost, and how to troublesh...

➔ Updated platform deployment with How to Deploy and Scale Docker Containers on Railway in 2026.
pricingSep 17, 2026

Usage-Based vs. Fixed Pricing: Which Is Cheaper in 2026?

Railway has published a comparative analysis of provisioned, resource-consumption, and request-based cloud pricing models. The documentation provides specific cost-modeling frameworks to determine the most economical billing structure for varying workload shapes.

➔ Availability of a formal comparative framework and worked examples for calculating cost-efficiency across different cloud pricing models.
featureSep 10, 2026

First-Class Databases on Railway

A guide to features of a first-class database offering, and how to enable one on Railway....

➔ Updated platform deployment with First-Class Databases on Railway.
featureSep 1, 2026

Node.js Hosting Options Compared

A guide to the most popular hosting options for Node.js applications....

➔ Updated platform deployment with Node.js Hosting Options Compared.

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