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Railway alternatives

1 open-source project that already does this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

zeitwork/zeitworkAn open-source project that advertises itself as a fast way to deploy and scale applications; could serve as a starting point for a self-hosted deploy+orchestration stack.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

High-performance global private networking and 100 Gbps internal transfer
Integrated multi-region autoscaling and large replica/VM limits
Built-in PR preview orchestration and unlimited ephemeral environments at scale
Managed enterprise features (SSO, audit log retention, HIPAA BAA) and dedicated VMs
Tight integrated UI/console with 100+ API GraphQL surface

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Railway, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.