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Gheima vs Railway

Railway bills usage by the second on a post-paid card in US dollars, from Amsterdam or three other regions. Gheima sells fixed monthly plans in dirhams from 90 MAD, paid by Moroccan card or bank transfer, and runs in Oracle Cloud's Casablanca region. Both cap spending; Railway scales further and has more regions and certifications.

Competitor facts checked on November 11, 2026 on the vendor's own pages. Prices change: check them before you decide.

GheimaRailway
Cheapest always-on appDev plan, 90 MAD a month, 2 GB of memory to share across servicesHobby, $5 a month including $5 of usage. RAM is about $10 per GB a month and CPU about $20 per vCPU a month
Free planYes, no card. Web services sleep after 30 minutes without traffic. One Postgres database up to 512 MB, without backupsA one-time $5 trial for 30 days, then $1 of usage a month
Managed PostgreSQLIncluded in the plan: 1 on Dev, more on higher plansA template Railway maintains, billed on the same RAM, CPU and volume usage. No fixed price
Where it runsOracle Cloud, Casablanca region (ma-1)California, Virginia, Amsterdam or Singapore. Nearest to Morocco: Amsterdam. No region in Africa
How you payBank card through a Moroccan payment gateway, or bank transfer for a yearly plan or a top-up of 1,000 MAD or morePost-paid card. Invoices on the Enterprise plan only
Currency and invoicesMAD, with an invoice that can carry your ICE. No TVA added todayUS dollars
Git providersGitHub and GitLabGitHub
Spend controlFixed plan price. Usage beyond the allowance is paid only from a prepaid budget you set, which starts at 0 MADHard usage limit on every plan (minimum $10). When it is reached, workloads are taken offline
Support on the cheapest paid planEmail, within 2 business daysHobby: community only. Pro: usually within 72 hours

Where Railway is stronger

  • SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3.
  • Per-second billing that can cost less than a fixed plan for an app that is idle most of the month.
  • Services up to 1,000 vCPU and 1 TB of memory on Pro, and replicas across regions.
  • Four regions, including Amsterdam.

Where Gheima is weaker today

  • New workloads run in one region, Casablanca. There is no second region to fail over to.
  • No third-party security certification (such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001) yet.
  • No contractual uptime SLA yet. The status page shows how we are doing.
  • Automatic PHP builds are paused while the PHP the builder installs is affected by a security flaw; PHP apps deploy from a Dockerfile in the meantime.
  • Sign-up is by invite during the private beta.

Moving a Railway service to Gheima

  1. 1

    Connect the repository

    Create a service from the same GitHub repository. Nixpacks detects the stack, or you set the build and start commands.

  2. 2

    Copy the variables

    Export them to a .env file and push it with gheima env push.

  3. 3

    Move the database

    Create a managed Postgres database and restore a pg_dump of the Railway database into it.

  4. 4

    Point your domain

    Add your domain to the service and update its DNS. Gheima issues and renews the HTTPS certificate.

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Questions

Which is cheaper, Railway or Gheima?

It depends on the shape of the load. Railway charges for the RAM and CPU a service uses each second, so an app that sits idle can cost less. Gheima charges a fixed price per plan, 90 MAD a month on Dev, so a busy app costs the same every month. Both let you cap spending.

What happens when I reach my spending limit?

On Railway, reaching the hard limit takes your workloads offline. On Gheima, compute is never billed beyond the plan, and bandwidth, build minutes and storage beyond the allowance draw only on a prepaid budget you set, which starts at 0 MAD.

How was this comparison checked?

Every Railway fact on this page was read on railway.com or docs.railway.com on 11 November 2026, and the pages are listed below. Gheima's prices and limits come from the same catalogue the pricing page renders.

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