Migrate from Railway to Swyftstack in three clicks.
Keep the parts of Railway that work for you - the deploys, the services, the niceties. Move just the Postgres to a flat monthly bill with daily backups and one-click restore included. Your Railway database keeps serving traffic until you flip DATABASE_URL.
Railway Postgres vs Swyftstack Starter
Railway bills the database by the GB-hour on top of a $5 base; Swyftstack bills a flat monthly fee with storage, backups, and egress included.
Feature | Railway Postgres | Swyftstack Starter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | $5 base + GB-hour usage | Flat monthly fee | |
| Monthly price | Variable | $19 ($9 first 2 months) | |
| Daily backups | Manual / self-managed | ||
| One-click restore | |||
| Object storage | Separate volume | 100 GB included | |
| Migration helper | Three-click, checksum-verified | ||
| Real PostgreSQL | Stock image | PG 16, unmodified |
Move the data, keep the deploys.
Railway is a great place to run app containers. If the variable database line item is the part of your invoice that makes budgeting hard, move just the Postgres to Swyftstack's flat plan - backups and restore included - and keep shipping everything else on Railway. Nothing else in your stack has to change.
Four steps
Railway dashboard → your Postgres service → Connect → copy the "Postgres Connection URL".
Swyftstack dashboard → Migrate → "From Railway". Paste, click Start.
Usually 2-5 minutes for under 5 GB. Larger databases scale with size.
Swap the env var during your normal release window. Your old database keeps serving until you switch.
What you get on Swyftstack
The database half of your stack, on a bill you can forecast before the month starts.
PostgreSQL 16 straight from postgresql.org. No custom protocol, no proprietary driver. Whatever your ORM expects, just works.
Use Swyftstack's console, signed URLs, scoped credentials, and public object links. Full S3 gateway compatibility is on the roadmap.
Click "Create database". Get a connection string with SSL by default. No waiting room, no provisioning queue, no DNS to set up first.
Encrypted daily backups with 7- or 30-day retention. Weekly automated restore drills - because untested backups aren't backups.
Database, storage, backups, and egress on a single invoice. No three-vendor accounting at the end of the quarter.
Open standards on both ends. pg_dump and S3 export are first-class, even on the free tier. Move on whenever you want.
Frequently asked
Can I keep Railway and just use Swyftstack for the database?
Yes - this is exactly what most migrants do. Drop the Swyftstack DATABASE_URL into the service that connects to Postgres and deploy everything else on Railway as before.
Does Railway's Postgres image have anything custom?
It's stock Postgres. Standard pg_dump/pg_restore handle it cleanly, including indexes, sequences, and common extensions.
Will my Railway service have downtime?
Only during the env-var swap and restart. Otherwise no - your old database keeps serving until you switch, so the cutover is on your schedule.
How do I roll back if something looks wrong?
Don't flip DATABASE_URL. Until you switch, your Railway database is still live and serving traffic, so a bad cutover costs nothing - you just keep using Railway.
What does the migration actually cost?
Nothing until you switch. The migration runs while your Railway database keeps serving production; you only start paying Swyftstack once you point DATABASE_URL at the new connection string.
Predictable bills. Included backups.
Migration is free. You start paying when you switch DATABASE_URL.