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LazyFrog vs Railway
A cloud platform for deploying apps, databases and services, billed by the resources they use. With LazyFrog, the AI you already use builds the app and we host it. Here's how the two compare.
First paid plan
- Railway
- Hobby at $5 a month, which includes $5 of usage
- LazyFrog
- Hobby $9 a month (Pro $29, Business $79), plus the AI plan you already have
Who deploys
- Railway
- You, from a repository, the command line or a template
- LazyFrog
- Your AI (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Claude Code) through LazyFrog's tools, or you with git
What a month costs you
- Railway
- $5 plus usage beyond the $5 included: about $20 per vCPU and $10 per GB of memory a month, billed by the second
- LazyFrog
- A fixed plan from $9, with warnings at 80%; nothing is charged beyond it unless you choose a boost
Free
- Railway
- A $5 trial credit for 30 days, then a Free plan with $1 of usage a month
- LazyFrog
- One project with its database and a private preview; going live starts with Hobby
Database
- Railway
- PostgreSQL as a service you add to the project; backups are a feature you turn on
- LazyFrog
- PostgreSQL in every project, one for the preview and one for the live site, with snapshots and, on paid plans, backups
Custom domains
- Railway
- 2 on Hobby, 20 on Pro
- LazyFrog
- On Hobby and up
| Railway | LazyFrog | |
|---|---|---|
| First paid plan | Hobby at $5 a month, which includes $5 of usage | Hobby $9 a month (Pro $29, Business $79), plus the AI plan you already have |
| Who deploys | You, from a repository, the command line or a template | Your AI (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Claude Code) through LazyFrog's tools, or you with git |
| What a month costs you | $5 plus usage beyond the $5 included: about $20 per vCPU and $10 per GB of memory a month, billed by the second | A fixed plan from $9, with warnings at 80%; nothing is charged beyond it unless you choose a boost |
| Free | A $5 trial credit for 30 days, then a Free plan with $1 of usage a month | One project with its database and a private preview; going live starts with Hobby |
| Database | PostgreSQL as a service you add to the project; backups are a feature you turn on | PostgreSQL in every project, one for the preview and one for the live site, with snapshots and, on paid plans, backups |
| Custom domains | 2 on Hobby, 20 on Pro | On Hobby and up |
Railway's figures from its pricing page and its PostgreSQL docs, checked 13 November 2026.
Who Railway is for
Developers who deploy services themselves and want to pay for exactly the CPU, memory and storage they use.
Who LazyFrog is for
People who already use an AI such as Claude or ChatGPT and want their ideas on the web without learning about hosting. Developers like it too, because they can still clone, script and leave.