Migrate from Render to Railway
35 public pull requests on GitHub since Oct 2024, in 34 repos, say they move a project from Render to Railway. 57 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 "Render to Railway".
When they moved
Pull requests a month. Most are recent: 31 in the last 13 months against 4 before. The busiest month was Sep 2026 (7).
What they move
The part of the app a pull request's title names — "migrate auth from Render to Railway". Many titles name none, so the shares don't add up to 100%.
- Deployment51% 18 of 35
- API and functions29% 10 of 35
- Docs9% 3 of 35
The newest 20 pull requests
- contrib: Render to Railway migration patches (#497, #498, #500, #502)Vellar-Wallet/vellar-sdk · 2026-09-30
- TAGit NEXT: move the site and pipelines from Render to Railwaytufeeq/ai · 2026-09-28
- chore(deploy): move hosting from Render to Railway + NeonNae-chan/bizsplit · 2026-09-26
- Revise deploy plan: switch host from Render to Railwayabidayn/fetch · 2026-09-22
- Migrate production ingress from Render to Railwayw129/hashcod-codespace · 2026-09-21
- Switch backend deployment from Render to Railwaydasigconnect-dev/DASIGConnect · 2026-09-20
- infra: migrate backend hosting from Render to Railwaykayibabe/qwantej · 2026-09-19
- fix(mcp): move deploy controls from Render to Railwayannetbg-wq/aicorn-ai-studio · 2026-08-29
- update render to railwaycfabioramos/gerenciadordeaulas_app · 2026-08-28
- Add render-tool skill to integrate Railway render queue (create/check/list/cancel)agteo/hermes-agent-template · 2026-08-24
- Deploy: switch Real Verify backend from Render to Railwayaliramezan5/trojan-tester · 2026-08-22
- Replatform backend from Render to Railwaycorneliustgunn/bedtime-bonanza · 2026-08-22
- chore: migrate deployment configuration from Render to Railway using …DevKola/smart-id · 2026-07-30
- Switch deployment from Render to Railwaynephiw/family-photos · 2026-07-04
- chore: migrate DCC base URL from Render to RailwayProgrammingDrak/daily-command-center · 2026-06-26
- fix: switch deployment from Render to Railway, add nixpacks.toml for …moses7054/invoice_parser · 2026-06-23
- feat(deploy): migrate FullStackHub deployment from Render to Railwaybrunocarbone98/projects · 2026-06-15
- docs: update hosting references from Render to Railway in docs and AI…Knd0/legal-tech-app · 2026-06-11
- docs: update hosting references from Render to Railway in GEMINI.md a…Knd0/legal-tech-app · 2026-06-11
- feat: Switch deployment from Render to RailwayVix934/Amc · 2026-05-28
Render and Railway, side by side
Among makers' products we track for hosting: Render 137, Railway 120.
At requests 5 million requests, data transfer out 100 GB, serverless function compute 100 GB-hours, Render costs $39/mo (Hobby) and Railway $45/mo (Hobby), at list prices.
Where else Render projects go
Vercel61 PRs
Amazon Web Services19 PRs
Fly.io15 PRs
Cloudflare13 PRs
Netlify4 PRs
Where else Railway's newcomers come from
- Vercel94 PRs
- Fly.io15 PRs
- Amazon Web Services9 PRs
- Netlify7 PRs
- Cloudflare6 PRs
Questions
How many projects have moved from Render to Railway?
35 public pull requests on GitHub since Oct 2024, in 34 repos, have a title saying they move from Render to Railway.
Do projects move back from Railway to Render?
Yes: 57 pull requests over the same time go from Railway to Render, against 35 from Render to Railway.
What do people move first from Render to Railway?
Of the pull request titles, 51% name deployment, 29% name API and functions.
Is Railway cheaper than Render?
At requests 5 million requests, data transfer out 100 GB, serverless function compute 100 GB-hours: Render $39/mo (Hobby), Railway $45/mo (Hobby), at list prices.
GitHub search, Oct 2026 (as of 2026-10-02).