Migrate from Railway to Render
57 public pull requests on GitHub since Oct 2024, in 49 repos, say they move a project from Railway to Render. 35 go the other way. Real code changes by developers in general, not only makers — read from the titles, so a PR is counted when its title says "Railway to Render".
When they moved
Pull requests a month. Most are recent: 50 in the last 13 months against 7 before. The busiest month was Jul 2026 (9).
What they move
The part of the app a pull request's title names — "migrate auth from Railway to Render". Many titles name none, so the shares don't add up to 100%.
- Deployment51% 29 of 57
- API and functions32% 18 of 57
The newest 20 pull requests
- Switch the frontend's /api rewrite from Railway to RenderRodolphe27/student-manager · 2026-09-29
- Move the backend from Railway to RenderSpyro007-06/musify · 2026-09-28
- worker: migrate repo_map worker from Railway to Renderallocsys/madmcp · 2026-09-27
- chore: migrate hosting from Railway to RenderSanad-Manga/CareerLink · 2026-09-07
- chore: migrate hosting from Railway to RenderSanad-Manga/CareerLink · 2026-09-07
- chore: migrate API deployment from Railway to Renderjgfurlan/nexus-wallet · 2026-08-31
- Migrate backend + detection engine hosting from Railway to Renderpaulmaloba/garby · 2026-08-29
- Move MCP server deployment from Railway to Render free tierShivratnaK/InvestmentResearchAssistant-MCP · 2026-08-29
- [DEPLOY] Migrate temporary preview deployment from Railway to Rendersage125-ai-scientist-team/SAGE125-AI-Scientist · 2026-08-05
- feat(deploy): migrate from Railway to Render with Docker supportk1nz/splendor · 2026-07-27
- fix(deploy): migrate backend from Railway to Rendervibe-code-tours/team-05-app · 2026-07-16
- fix: update production URLs from Railway to Renderahmedfaraz-dev/Nut-backend · 2026-07-13
- update deploy railway to rendercarlos-cas3/vendor-service · 2026-07-13
- correction railway to rendercarlos-cas3/auth-service · 2026-07-13
- feat: migrate deployment from Railway to RenderNMB99/TeamSync · 2026-07-13
- feat: migrate deployment from Railway to RenderNMB99/TeamSync · 2026-07-13
- Migrate courtbook from railway to renderjibanski/courtbook · 2026-07-11
- chore(deploy): migrate hosting from Railway to Rendershreyanshverma7/data-analysis-agent · 2026-07-07
- fix: update backend URL from Railway to Render in contact pagesujoymondal87/engineering-portfolio · 2026-06-26
- railway to render Zunairah-k/pulse-backend · 2026-06-14
Railway and Render, side by side
Among makers' products we track for hosting: Railway 120, Render 137.
At requests 5 million requests, data transfer out 100 GB, serverless function compute 100 GB-hours, Railway costs $45/mo (Hobby) and Render $39/mo (Hobby), at list prices.
Where else Railway projects go
Vercel29 PRs
Cloudflare19 PRs
Fly.io12 PRs
Coolify6 PRs
Amazon Web Services5 PRs
Where else Render's newcomers come from
- Vercel123 PRs
- Fly.io21 PRs
- Cloudflare16 PRs
Netlify14 PRs- Amazon Web Services8 PRs
Questions
How many projects have moved from Railway to Render?
57 public pull requests on GitHub since Oct 2024, in 49 repos, have a title saying they move from Railway to Render.
Do projects move back from Render to Railway?
Yes: 35 pull requests over the same time go from Render to Railway, against 57 from Railway to Render.
What do people move first from Railway to Render?
Of the pull request titles, 51% name deployment, 32% name API and functions.
Is Render cheaper than Railway?
At requests 5 million requests, data transfer out 100 GB, serverless function compute 100 GB-hours: Railway $45/mo (Hobby), Render $39/mo (Hobby), at list prices.
GitHub search, Oct 2026 (as of 2026-10-02).