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Quave ONE vs Railway

Railway is a usage-billed container platform with a polished canvas, zero-config builds and one-click database templates, running on its own hardware. Quave ONE runs your apps and managed databases on our regions or in your own cloud account.

Facts checked on November 10, 2026, with a source link on every row.

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The short answer

Railway is great for getting something running fast: per-second billing on what you actually use, automatic PR environments, Dockerfile and zero-config builds, and SOC 2 Type II. For side projects and small teams that live in the dashboard, it is a strong choice.

Quave ONE fits teams that want support from people by email, a São Paulo region, CPU- and memory-based autoscaling, and the option to run the same platform in their own cloud account. Railway support is community or forum-based below Enterprise and it has no region in South America.

Side by side

Pricing model

Quave ONE
Direct: usage-based, $7.50 per zCloud per month (0.5 vCPU + 0.5 GB RAM), billed hourly. Overage lines apply to disk above 5 GB per zCloud, backups above 30 GB per environment, and builds above 600 minutes per month. Connect: a platform license from $399/month, and you pay your cloud provider directly.Source
Railway
Plan fee credited toward usage (Hobby $5, Pro $20 per month), then per-second billing on actual use: $20 per vCPU-month and $10 per GB RAM-month. Builds are free.Source

Smallest always-on app

Quave ONE
1 zCloud (0.5 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM) for $7.50/month in standard regions (US-5, EU-3, BR-1), after a free Professional upgrade review. Logs, metrics, alerts, backups, MCP and support are included. EU-4 London is $26.50.Source
Railway
Billed by real usage, not allocation: an app averaging 0.5 vCPU and 0.5 GB RAM all month uses about $15 of compute; an idle app uses less.Source

Free option

Quave ONE
Hobby account: deploy apps and databases to the US-1 Hobby region to evaluate. No charge and no credit card. Not for production.Source
Railway
30-day trial with a one-time $5 credit, no credit card. Then a Free plan with $1 of credit per month, capped at 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB per service.Source

Bandwidth

Quave ONE
No extra network fees. In US-5, BR-1, EU-3 and EU-4, 10 GB of outbound traffic per zCloud per month is included; contact support if you need more.Source
Railway
Egress is $0.05 per GB for services.Source

Managed databases

Quave ONE
Managed MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ and ClickHouse, with managed backups kept 7 days by default. A single-node MongoDB starts at 1 zCloud ($7.50/month).Source
Railway
Railway-maintained templates for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis and MongoDB, with HA variants. No published database uptime SLA.Source

Long-running apps and WebSockets

Quave ONE
Long-running containers, so WebSockets work. Idle connections close after 60 seconds without data by default; keep-alive pings (such as Meteor DDP heartbeats) keep them open.Source
Railway
Always-on containers; WebSockets have no duration or idle limit at the edge. No sticky sessions across replicas.Source

Regions

Quave ONE
Direct: Ashburn (US-5), Frankfurt (EU-3), London (EU-4) and São Paulo (BR-1). Connect: your own cloud account; the license covers one region and provider, more may cost extra.Source
Railway
US West (California), US East (Virginia), EU West (Amsterdam) and Southeast Asia (Singapore). None in South America.Source

Run in your own cloud

Quave ONE
Yes, with Connect: the same platform in your AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI account, or on-premise. 12-month minimum and a one-time setup fee.Source
Railway
Bring your own cloud is listed only on the Enterprise plan (custom pricing, contact sales).Source

Autoscaling

Quave ONE
CPU- and memory-based autoscaling for app environments, enabled per account on request. Scale to zero is Connect-only.Source
Railway
Automatic vertical scaling up to plan limits. Horizontal scaling is a replica count you set; the docs describe no metric-based horizontal autoscaling.Source

Logs and metrics

Quave ONE
Included: logs kept 20 days, Grafana metrics, alerts to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, email or webhooks, and OpenTelemetry tracing (enabled per account).Source
Railway
Log explorer kept 7 days on Hobby, 30 on Pro, up to 90 on Enterprise. CPU, memory, disk and network metrics; tracing is in preview.Source

Preview environments

Quave ONE
Branch previews per pushed branch with the Quave ONE CLI and GitHub Action, cleaned up after a TTL.Source
Railway
PR environments created automatically per pull request and deleted on merge or close.Source

Support

Quave ONE
Email support, Monday to Friday, 9AM–5PM São Paulo time, usually answered within an hour. 24/7 on-call for infrastructure outages on every plan.Source
Railway
Community support on Free and Hobby. Pro gets direct help through the forum, usually within 72 hours. No email support.Source

Compliance

Quave ONE
Working towards SOC 2 (preparing for the audit). Customers with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications run on Quave ONE; with Connect, workloads stay in your own cloud account.Source
Railway
SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3. HIPAA BAA as a committed-spend add-on.Source

AI agents (MCP)

Quave ONE
Remote MCP server included: AI clients can inspect logs, review deployments, manage environments and run approved Jobs, within your account permissions.Source
Railway
Official hosted MCP server (mcp.railway.com) and plugins for common coding agents.Source

Which one fits you

Choose Quave ONE when

  • You want to email the people who run the platform and get an answer during São Paulo business hours.
  • Your users are in Brazil or South America.
  • You want autoscaling driven by CPU and memory, not a fixed replica count.
  • You want logs, metrics and alerts included, with OpenTelemetry tracing available on request.
  • You may need to run in your own AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI account without an Enterprise plan (Connect: from $399/month plus your cloud bill, a one-time setup fee and a 12-month minimum).

Choose Railway when

  • Your app is idle most of the time and you want to pay only for the CPU and RAM it actually uses.
  • You want automatic PR environments and a visual canvas with no setup.
  • You need a SOC 2 Type II report from your provider today.
  • You need a region in Singapore or on the US West coast.

Moving from Railway to Quave ONE

  1. Export your Railway variables for each service.
  2. Create the app on Quave ONE from the same Dockerfile (or a preset if Railpack built it) and add the variables.
  3. Create the managed database on Quave ONE and restore a dump from your Railway database.
  4. Deploy, test on the Quave ONE domain, then switch your custom domain.
  5. Or let our team do it: we help with every step, or run the whole migration for you, apps and databases included.

FAQ

  • One zCloud (0.5 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM) is $7.50/month. If your app really uses 0.5 vCPU and 0.5 GB all month, Railway rates come to about $15, and Pro has a $20 monthly minimum. Railway bills actual usage, so an app that uses less can cost less there.
  • Yes, as a Railway-maintained template on the official image that you can convert to a replica set and turn on backups for. Quave ONE runs MongoDB as a managed database.
  • Railway docs say support is community-based on Free and Hobby and forum-based for Pro (usually within 72 hours), with SLOs on Business Class and Slack Connect on Enterprise, and no email support. Quave ONE support is by email.
  • Not exactly. The $7.50 zCloud price already includes logs kept 20 days, metrics, alerts, managed database backups (30 GB per environment), MCP, and email support with 24/7 infrastructure on-call. On many platforms some of these are add-ons or higher plans, so compare the full setup you need, not only the smallest instance.

How we compare

Every fact on this page links to the public page it came from: our own docs for Quave ONE, and the vendor's own pricing or docs pages for everyone else. We checked them on November 10, 2026. Prices and features change, so check the source before you decide. If something here is wrong or out of date, email support@quave.one and we will fix it.

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