Every category where a model named Railway for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Managed relational databases	Data platform	4%	8 of 73	11%	9	under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 32%
Managed Kubernetes platforms	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	21 of 48	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Google Kubernetes Engine at 39%
Cloud hosting	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	29 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Railway yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Railway across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	2	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative7 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained11 labels2

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative34 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“For the lowest cost, Neon or Railway Postgres are the best choices.” Mistral Small · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice

“1. Railway Postgres: starts at ~$5/month (usage-based)” Llama 4 Maverick · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice

“These are Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) providers built for modern development teams.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · alternative

“Railway - Best for small to mid-size teams who want Kubernetes without an AWS bill.” Llama 4 Maverick · Managed Kubernetes · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Why avoid: Marketed as usage-based, but it's actually a container service, not a true managed database.” Mistral Small · Managed databases · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Railway, over the 34 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Railway was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Render19 of 341Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Kubernetes11 of 346Not in the top three

Google Kubernetes Engine11 of 345Not in the top three

Neon11 of 342Not in the top three

Render Postgres11 of 340Not in the top three

Amazon EKS10 of 340Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Managed Databases9 of 343Not in the top three

Fly.io9 of 341Not in the top three

Amazon Web Services8 of 341Not in the top three

Linode Managed Databases8 of 341Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Railway. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 20 of the 34 answers that named Railway and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

northflank.com13

auxiliar.ai9

cloudpricecheck.com7

toolradar.com7

blog.railway.comYour site6

medium.com6

aws.amazon.com5

digitalocean.com5

clever.cloud4

spot.rackspace.com4

Sixty of the sixty-six domain citations in answers naming Railway came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

auxiliar.ai/database9

cloudpricecheck.com/guides/choosing-cloud-database7

blog.railway.com/p/best-managed-kubernetes-hosting-20266

northflank.com/blog/best-database-providers6

medium.com/@elliotgraebert/comparing-the-top-eight-managed-kubernetes-providers-2ae39662395

clever.cloud/blog/features/2026/07/24/managed-kubernetes-benefits-limitations-and-selectio4

spot.rackspace.com/blog/kubernetes-managed-services4

toolradar.com/best/managed-databases/for/small-businesses4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Railway

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Railway; a claim can dispute any of them.

Railway Postgres 2Railway / Render / Neon 1

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Railway's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Railway, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at railway.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.