Carrd vs Railway
Pricing
Carrd: Free, Pro from $19/year
Railway: Free tier, usage-based from $5/mo
Description
Carrd: Simple one-page websites for anything
Railway: Deploy apps, databases, and services with zero configuration
Pros
- Dead simple to use
- Incredibly affordable
- No coding required
- One-click Postgres, Redis, and MySQL: databases ready in seconds
- Auto-detects your framework and sets up the build pipeline
- Usage-based pricing means you only pay for what you actually use
Cons
- Limited to one-page sites
- Less customization than full builders
- Always-on services can cost $20-50/month or more, not cheap for background workers
- Less control over infrastructure than a VPS
- Newer platform with occasional growing pains
Details
Carrd lets you build simple, responsive one-page sites in minutes. Perfect for landing pages, portfolios, and link-in-bio pages.
Built by solo founder AJ, bootstrapped to $1.5M ARR with over 3.3M sites created. The definition of doing one thing well.
Railway removes the DevOps from deploying full-stack apps. Connect your repo, it detects your framework, provisions databases, and handles environment variables. You go from code to production in minutes without touching a Dockerfile.
The usage-based pricing is a double-edged sword. A side project that gets light traffic costs almost nothing. A production app with background workers and a database can easily run $30-50/month. Great for quick deploys and prototypes; keep an eye on costs if your app runs 24/7.
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