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SmolClouds vs Railway
Railway is a general-purpose app platform with a strong developer experience. SmolClouds is narrower on purpose: many small apps that are idle most of the time.
What Railway is good at
- •Running services with databases and background workers alongside them
- •A mature dashboard and template ecosystem
- •Long-running processes that need to stay resident
What SmolClouds optimises for
- •Hundreds of small apps under one account
- •Apps that are stopped between requests rather than kept warm
- •Deployment initiated by an agent over the API
Choose Railway when
Your app is a always-on service with attached infrastructure.
Choose SmolClouds when
You have many small apps that each get a handful of requests a day.
A note on numbers
We do not publish cost or latency comparisons against other platforms until we have a benchmark we can describe and you can reproduce. When those exist they will appear here with their method attached.
Build as much small software as you want.
Deploy the first one in a couple of minutes. It sleeps when nobody is using it.