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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

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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: 6Pricing Shifts: 0

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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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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.
featureAug 13, 2026

Your Cloud should come with an app builder

Announcing: dev.new, an agent that can build, preview, test, and deploy an app from the same place. We tested the whole loop by asking it to ship a real-time multiplayer FPS game that runs in the browser...

Updated platform deployment with Your Cloud should come with an app builder.
featureJul 31, 2026

How we made a viral commercial for developers

We made a commercial for Railway featuring the actor behind Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley. This is how we made it so that a developer like you would watch it....

Updated platform deployment with How we made a viral commercial for developers.
featureJul 17, 2026

Roll it out, roll it back, never redeploy

Merge now, release when you're ready: turn a feature on for your team, then 10% of users, then everyone. Feature flags are now built into every Railway project, and your agents can run the rollout from the CLI, SDK, and ...

Updated platform deployment with Roll it out, roll it back, never redeploy.

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