Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 17 → 18 of 70
4 categories · Named, not rankedRailway
31Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
8 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Railway was named 8 times in Managed databases and 3 other categories, where Amazon RDS led with 45%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business18 of 74
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market14 of 82
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In managed databases · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed relational databases | Data platform | 0% | 14 of 82 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 45% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Cloud hosting | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 35 of 85 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 32% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Managed Kubernetes platforms | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 37 of 52 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Google Kubernetes Engine at 43% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| ML platforms | Data platform | 0% | 97 of 107 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Azure Machine Learning at 21% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Railway held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Managed databases · by segment
Mid-market▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 8 → 14 of 72
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed databases | 4% | 0% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 8 → 14 of 82 |
| Cloud hosting | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 27 → 35 of 85 |
| Managed Kubernetes | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 19 → 37 of 52 |
| ML platforms | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 97 of 107, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Railway across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Railway across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative5 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained9 labelsNone
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.
“Railway - Best for Low-Traffic Apps ... Very affordable entry point; simple setup” Kimi K2 · Managed databases · budget prompt · alternative
“Railway, Render, and Fly.io offer managed Postgres starting around $5–7/month” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · budget prompt · alternative
“modern, budget-friendly alternatives to Heroku” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget 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.
“limited GPU support and scaling, making it unsuitable for heavier production AI use” Perplexity Sonar · ML platforms · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Railway, over the 31 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Railway, over the 31 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 27 of the 31 answers that named Railway and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
blog.railway.comYour site16
northflank.com16
dev.to8
it-ai-index.com8
spot.rackspace.com7
youtube.com7
digitalocean.com6
medium.com6
reddit.com6
sourceforge.net5
Sixty-nine of the eighty-five domain citations in answers naming Railway came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
railway.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Railway takes 0% of first choices and Amazon RDS takes 45%.ShowHide
Search and answers
railway.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Railway takes 0% of first choices and Amazon RDS takes 45%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “managed relational database service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “managed relational database services”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 49,500 a month (“railway”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 38,891 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 60,702 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 4,728 · 325 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 7,534
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess1 ads · 1 text · 0 shown in the last 30 days
First shown May 2026, as CTY TNHH NEFLINK, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 1 in the year.
On Google's pages: 1
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 14 of 82 in managed databases
Segment leader
45%
Amazon RDS
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 31 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 27 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on railway.com
16,245
subdomains included
Content
800
counted in the table below
Documentation
561
Product · Integration
2 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | 313 | 88 | 2026-09-27 | Vector databases, Orchestration | |
| Blog | 214 | 7 | 2026-09-10 | Feature flags, CDN | |
| Report or ebook | 152 | 11 | 2026-09-25 | CDN, LLM gateways | |
| Template or tool | 88 | 1 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 24 | 0 | 2026-05-26 | ||
| Conference or event | 4 | 0 | 2026-02-26 | ||
| Podcast or video | 2 | 2 | 2026-09-22 | ||
| News or press | 2 | 1 | 2026-09-12 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page railway.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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/Render/Fly.io 1
Follow Railway
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Railway is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Railway is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The all-in-one intelligent cloud provider
- For
- Developers
- Price stated
- Free tier available with pay-as-you-go pricing; paid plans with usage-based pricing railway.com
- Starting price
- 0 railway.com
- Free plan or trial
- Free tier available railway.com
- Certifications
- HIPAA BAAsSOC 2 complianceSOC 2 Type 2SOC 3HIPAAGDPREU-US DPFSwiss-US DPF
- Hosting
- Global regionsConcurrent global regionsCloud regionsUnited States / Selected Railway RegionUnited States, EEA, and user's locationUnited States, EEAUSUS, EU, Singapore
- Customers named
- BiltG2XMappaCommonBoxOutSportsEvery
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What Railway's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: railway.com, railway.com/pricing, trust.railway.com, railway.com/customers, railway.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Railway by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Railway is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Railway, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.