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Render vs Railway vs Fly.io: Pricing Compared and When Each Wins (2026)

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Short answer first: the three platforms charge in three different shapes. Render adds a workspace fee for teams on top of fixed instance prices. Railway has no free tier and meters everything per second on top of a small plan fee. Fly.io is pure pay-as-you-go per second, with no base plan fee at all. The right pick depends less on the headline price and more on which of those shapes fits how you work.

This post explains each model, shows a side-by-side table, and gives the cases where each one wins.