weeny.cloud vs Railway

Both let a coding agent deploy something and get a URL back. They are not the same shape of product, and the honest answer is that Railway is the better choice for a lot of work.

The short version

Railway is a platform. You give it a repo, it builds and runs your app, and it manages the infrastructure underneath. It has managed Postgres and Redis, horizontal scaling, environments, and a genuinely good agent story — a CLI, an MCP server, and agent integrations that are being actively invested in.

weeny is a machine. You get one persistent Linux server with root and SSH, and a very small control plane on top that turns processes into supervised apps with HTTPS URLs. There is no build system, no service catalogue, and no autoscaler. If you want Postgres, you install Postgres.

When Railway is the better choice

• You want managed databases, and you don't want to be the person who patches them.
• Your app needs to scale horizontally, or across regions.
• You want preview environments per pull request.
• You'd rather never think about a machine, a process supervisor, or a disk.
• You have a team who expect a dashboard with roles and audit trails.

Those are real things and weeny does not do them. Pretending otherwise would waste your time and ours.

When weeny is the better choice

• You want a real computer. Arbitrary binaries, background workers, cron, long-lived websocket connections, a compiled thing you found on GitHub, Docker if you want it. If it runs on Linux it runs here, because it is Linux.
• You want the bill to be a number you already know. weeny is a flat monthly price per server — from $3/mo on founding pricing — with no metering, no per-app charge, and no usage line to reconcile. Railway bills for what you consume, which is fairer at rest and less predictable under load. For a pile of small always-on side projects, flat wins; for spiky production traffic, usage-based may well be cheaper.
• You want your agent to operate the machine, not just deploy to it. This is the real difference. On weeny your agent has root over SSH: it can read logs with journalctl, restart a unit, install a package, inspect the disk, and fix the thing it broke. A platform deliberately hides that surface — which is a feature right up until the moment your agent needs it.
• You're running many small apps. Unlimited apps per server, one price. The cost of the eleventh tracker app is zero.

What deploying actually looks like

On weeny, your agent runs this — no Dockerfile, no config file, nothing committed to the repo:

npx weeny-cloud push ./myapp
npx weeny-cloud ssh 'weeny start myapp -- npm start && weeny expose myapp 3000'
# → https://myapp-x7k2.onweeny.com

There is no build step to configure because there is no build system — you build wherever you like and ship the result. That's a downside if you wanted CI; it's the point if you wanted to stop fighting one.

The honest summary

Choose Railway when you want a platform to take responsibility for running your app. Choose weeny when you want a cheap, persistent Linux box that your coding agent can drive end to end, and you're happy to be the one who decides how it's run.

If you're deploying a production service with a team behind it, Railway. If you're an individual or a small team shipping a lot of small software and you want root, weeny.