A Railway alternative: one fixed price, EU hosting, built for AI apps
Railway is a good platform. If it works for you, stay there.
Dockhold is different in four ways. Here they are, in short.
1. You choose the price, and it stays the same
Railway counts what your app uses. CPU, memory, network, storage. The bill comes after, and your traffic decides it.
Dockhold sells you capacity instead. You pick how much you want. That is your price, in a quiet month and a busy one. It does not grow while you sleep.
Need more? You add it in one click, and you see the new price before you agree to it.
That one pool is split across all your apps. There is no fee per app, so a second app costs nothing until it needs more room.
2. Your apps and your data stay in the EU
Your apps and your databases run in German data centers. The company behind Dockhold is in Germany too.
So when a customer asks where their data is, the answer is short and you can prove it.
3. Built for AI agents, not only websites
Web apps and APIs run well here. So do the newer things people are building now:
- AI agents
- MCP servers
- Telegram and Discord bots
- webhook receivers
- background workers and scheduled jobs
They never sleep. There is no cold start, so the first request of the day is as fast as the last.
Your AI tool can also deploy for you. Dockhold has an MCP server, plus llms.txt and agent rules written for machines to read. Point Claude or Cursor at it and it can ship your app without you clicking anything.
4. Start free, pay as you grow
Free. 256 MB of always-on app power, a managed database, and 10 GB of storage. No card.
$5 a month. Adds 512 MB and 0.5 vCPU. Also unlocks private apps, custom domains, and running several copies of one app.
You never change plans. You only change the number.
When Railway is the better choice
If your traffic jumps in ways you cannot predict, and you want the platform to grow itself and bill you for it, Railway suits you better.
If you need team accounts with several people sharing access, Dockhold does not have those yet.
Pricing and free tiers change. This was written in August 2026. Check Railway's current pricing page before you decide anything based on it.
Try it with one app
Do not move everything. Take one app, put it on Dockhold, and watch it for two weeks.