Railway is polished usage-based hosting — and like most platforms at that scale, it ships AI tooling and asks for identity verification as your usage grows. Freehold's difference isn't the AI — it's that we never ask, and privacy ships free.
Railway's usage-based billing means identity and business verification kick in as you scale. Freehold never asks — not at signup, not at any size.
Every app on Freehold gets a private .onion address by default, at no extra cost. Railway has no private-routing option.
One-click apps on Freehold deploy with no provider or region to pick, and a pre-set size — sane defaults every time. Railway still asks you to configure resources per service.
| Feature | Freehold | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Billing model | Hourly, capped monthly | Usage-based (CPU + RAM + egress) |
| Identity check required | — | at scale |
| Tor .onion address | ✓ | — |
| MCP / AI tool access | ✓ | ✓ |
| One-click app templates | 300+ | Yes, a curated set |
| GitHub push-to-deploy | ✓ | ✓ |
| Docker Compose native | ✓ | partial |
| Minimal deploy config | yes — no provider or region to pick; size pre-set, change anytime | you configure resources per service |
Railway pricing and feature details as publicly listed; verify current specifics at railway.app.
No card to start, no ID ever, and a hard monthly ceiling on every app. Same one-click deploy workflow.