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Google Cloud Run vs Railway: which is more reliable? (2026)
Railway is more reliable than Google Cloud Run, scoring 100.0 vs 72.8 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Google Cloud Run reported 3 incidents and Railway reported 0, with effective uptime of 99.59% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Google Cloud Run | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 72.8 | 100.0 |
| Rank (app hosting platforms) | #5 | — |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.59% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 3 | 0 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 4h 39m | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Google Cloud Run and Railway differ
- Railway reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Google Cloud Run reported 3.
- Google Cloud Run had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Railway.
- Google Cloud Run's longest outage on record lasted 6h 8m (Oct 20, 2026); Railway's lasted 5h 31m (Mar 10, 2026).
90-day uptime
Google Cloud Run
Railway
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Google Cloud Run incidents
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 6h 8m
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore +32 more
- Partial outageSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 10m
Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner +10 more
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 40m
We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee Edge Public Cloud, Apigee X, Artifact Registry, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Build +21 more
Recent Railway incidents
No incidents reported by Railway in the last 90 days.
Other app hosting platforms to consider
- DigitalOcean App Platform · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- Heroku · #2 · 99.95% uptime
- Koyeb · #3 · 99.64% uptime
- Render · #4 · 99.71% uptime