Hosting · Updated 10 November 2026 · 9 min read

Best European alternatives to Railway in 2026

Seven options in Europe for the apps, databases and volumes you run on Railway, with prices, build methods and what each one leaves for you to handle.

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If your Railway project is an app plus Postgres or Redis, look first at Zerops, Sliplane, Clever Cloud and Scalingo, which all run databases next to your code. Eurobase fits when you only need the app itself on European infrastructure at a flat €10 or €20 a month. Upsun fits teams that want a copy of the whole stack per branch, and Coolify on Hetzner fits teams willing to run their own server.

Railway has a region in Amsterdam, but Railway Corporation is based in San Francisco, with terms under Delaware law. Moving to a European region there doesn't change who runs the service.

Railway alternatives at a glance

Platform	Company	Starts at	Databases beside the app	Builds from
Zerops	Zerops s.r.o., a vshosting spin-off	Free project, then resources by the minute	PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Valkey and more	Code with a `zerops.yaml`, or a Docker image
Sliplane	Berlin, Germany	€9 per server, excl. VAT	Postgres from €19 a month	GitHub with framework detection, a Dockerfile or an image
Clever Cloud	France	Free credits, then billed by the second	PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis	Git push, or a Dockerfile
Scalingo	Strasbourg, France	€7.20 a month for 256 MB, excl. VAT	Postgres from €7.20 a month, excl. VAT	Git push
Eurobase	Warsaw, Poland	Free, then €10 a month + VAT	SQLite for Workers only	GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Forgejo or Gitea, with buildpacks
Upsun	Platform.sh SAS, doing business as Upsun, Paris, France	€9 per project and €10 per user a month, plus resources	PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Valkey	Git push
Coolify on Hetzner	Hetzner, Germany	Free software, servers listed from €5.49 a month excl. VAT	PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis and more, run by you	Dockerfile, Railpack, Nixpacks or Compose

Prices come from each provider's own page, checked on 9 and 10 November 2026. For comparison, Railway charges about $10 per GB of RAM and $20 per vCPU a month, billed by the second, on top of its $5 Hobby or $20 Pro plan.

What to check before you leave Railway

Where your data lives. On Railway, Postgres, MySQL and Redis sit in the same project as your app. Decide who runs them after the move.
Volumes. If a service writes files to a persistent volume, the new platform needs one too.
How the bill behaves. Railway bills usage by the second, and its optional hard limit takes all your workloads offline when it's reached.
Your build. Railway builds with Railpack or a Dockerfile. Check that your Dockerfile, or your language, is supported as is.
Cron, workers and pre-deploy commands. Railway runs scheduled services and a pre-deploy step such as migrations.

1. Zerops

Zerops is a platform from Zerops s.r.o., founded in 2024 as a spin-off of the hosting company vshosting. It runs your code or a Docker image in containers on bare metal, with managed PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Valkey, Kafka and more in the same private network. You pay for the CPU, memory and disk your containers use, a billing model much like Railway's.

Best for: Railway projects with several services and databases, moved as a whole.
Price: the Lightweight project plan is free and Serious is $10 a month per project. Resources are listed per 30 days and billed by the minute: shared CPU $0.60 per core, RAM $3 per GB and disk $0.10 per GB.
What it lacks: a VAT statement on its prices. Its home page lists datacenters in Prague and the US, so pick Prague.

2. Sliplane

Sliplane is headquartered in Berlin. Point it at a GitHub repository and it detects your framework automatically, or have it build from a Dockerfile or run an existing image. You rent a server at a fixed price and run as many services on it as fit, with persistent volumes and daily volume backups included.

Best for: several Docker services at one predictable price.
Price: servers from €9 for 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM, excluding VAT. Managed Postgres starts at €19 a month. A demo server is free for 48 hours.
What it lacks: scaling by usage, since the server size sets your ceiling. Locations outside Europe, in the US and Singapore, sit in the same list, so check which one a new server lands in.

3. Clever Cloud

Clever Cloud deploys on Git push from France, with managed PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis alongside. It can also build an image from your Dockerfile and run it as a container. Its ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate covers the platform.

Best for: teams that need certifications, many languages and a managed database from one provider.
Price: billed by the second, with free credits and no card to start. You set the most you're willing to pay when traffic grows.
What it lacks: Docker Compose and FS Buckets, its persistent file storage, for Docker apps. Each instance runs one container.

4. Scalingo

Scalingo SAS is based in Strasbourg and runs a Git-push platform with managed databases, workers and cron jobs. It is ISO 27001 certified and offers a SecNumCloud region on Outscale.

Best for: Railway apps built from a supported language that need a managed database and cron jobs in France.
Price: a 256 MB container is €7.20 and 512 MB is €14.40, estimated over 30 days and excluding VAT. The smallest Postgres is €7.20 a month excl. VAT, with 512 MB and 10 GB. You can try it free for 30 days.
What it lacks: one price for the whole project, since each container and database is billed on its own.

5. Eurobase

Eurobase deploys from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Forgejo or Gitea to European infrastructure. Servers in Node.js, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP and .NET are built with buildpacks and run as containers that scale to zero. Coding agents can deploy through its MCP server and CLI.

Eurobase only covers part of a typical Railway project. It runs your web service, not your database, worker or cron service.

Best for: the app half of a Railway project, at a price you know before the month starts.
Price: a Free plan, then €10 or €20 a month + VAT for the workspace. Usage isn't charged today: work over a limit is refused, apps on V8 isolates and Functions stop until the monthly reset, and containers and static sites keep serving.
Company: a business registered in Warsaw, Poland, on European infrastructure operated by Scaleway, a French provider.
What it lacks: managed Postgres, MySQL or Redis, Dockerfile builds, scheduled jobs and preview deployments. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 are being worked toward, not yet held.

The Railway migration guide maps each Railway setting, and Eurobase vs Railway compares the two side by side.

6. Upsun

Upsun is run by Platform.sh SAS, doing business as Upsun, in Paris. It gives every project on-demand preview environments that copy the full stack, services included. Its regions run on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or OVHcloud, and the regions page names the provider for each one, with European regions in Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, France and the UK.

Best for: teams who relied on Railway's pull request environments and want them with databases inside.
Price: €9 per project and €10 per user a month, plus CPU, memory and disk billed per second. There's a 15-day free trial.
What it lacks: a simple bill, since projects, users and resources are charged separately.

7. Coolify on Hetzner

Coolify is open-source software that turns your own server into a deployment dashboard. It builds from a Dockerfile, Docker Compose, Nixpacks or Railpack, the builder Railway uses, and starts PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB or Redis on the same server. Hetzner is a German host with cloud servers in Germany and Finland, plus Singapore and the US.

Best for: teams that want Railway's way of working on a server they control, at the lowest bill.
Price: self-hosted Coolify is free. Coolify Cloud costs $5 a month for 2 servers, plus $3 per extra server. Hetzner lists its CPX02 at €5.49 a month excl. VAT in Helsinki and €6.49 in Falkenstein or Nuremberg, but its entry plans showed as unavailable to order on 10 November 2026.
What it lacks: an operator. Updates, backups, security and uptime are your job.

How to choose

Pick Zerops to keep paying for what your containers use, with databases in the same network.
Pick Sliplane for a fixed price across several Docker services.
Pick Clever Cloud or Scalingo for ISO 27001 and managed databases from a French company.
Pick Eurobase when the service is a web app or API and its data already lives elsewhere.
Pick Upsun if every pull request needs its own copy of the stack.
Pick Coolify on Hetzner if you'd rather spend time than money.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a European company like Railway?

Yes. Zerops and Sliplane run apps and databases side by side, the way a Railway project does. Clever Cloud and Scalingo do the same on a Git-push platform from France.

Does Railway have servers in Europe?

Railway lists Amsterdam among its regions, next to California, Virginia and Singapore. The company is still Railway Corporation in San Francisco. Read EU region vs EU company for why that matters.

Where can I host Postgres in Europe if I leave Railway?

Sliplane, Clever Cloud, Scalingo, Zerops and Upsun all run managed PostgreSQL. Coolify can run it on your own Hetzner server. Eurobase doesn't offer managed Postgres, so pair it with one of these if you use it for the app.

Can I keep using my Dockerfile?

On Clever Cloud and Coolify, yes. Sliplane and Zerops also run a Docker image you build yourself. Eurobase builds with buildpacks and doesn't use Dockerfiles.