Feature by feature
A straightforward look at how Forte compares to Railway.
| Railway | Forte | |
|---|---|---|
| Payments | ✗ Build your own Stripe integration | ✓ Built in — subscriptions in one API call |
| User authentication | ✗ Build auth yourself (and pay for it!) | ✓ Built-in user auth and management |
| Debugging | Basic logs | ✓ Trace any request by ID |
| Auto-scaling | Vertical autoscaling; horizontal replicas you configure | ✓ Automatic horizontal scaling, included by default |
| Observability | Metrics dashboards | ✓ Latency percentiles + status-code breakdown, included |
| Billing | Usage-based, metered per resource | ✓ Predictable, flat-rate instances |
| Seat & platform fees | $20 per seat / month (Pro), $5/mo minimum | ✓ No seat fees — bring your whole team, pay only for usage |
| Network egress | Charged per GB | ✓ No egress fees — API, web, or content |
| What's included | Compute, databases, and add-on templates | ✓ Plus built-in user auth, payments, and request-level debugging |
| Reliability | No public guarantee | Uptime guarantee — 99.9% standard, 99.999% enterprise |
Migrate from Railway in 15 minutes
No special tooling. No migration scripts. Just point Forte at your existing repository.
Connect your repository
Forte links to GitHub the same way Railway does. Point it at your repo and branch.
Move your environment variables
Export your Railway environment variables and paste them into Forte. They're stored encrypted.
Deploy and let it scale
Trigger your first deploy. Forte builds your container, deploys it on AWS, and autoscales it for you — no manual service replication.
Debug by request, not by grep
Use Forte's built-in request debugger — search by request ID, with no external logging vendor to add.
Add the app layer
Flip on built-in user authentication and Stripe-backed payments — the app-layer pieces you'd otherwise assemble from separate vendors.