Railway
Modern app deployment platform
Python
#20
Overall Rank
of 20 tools
28.6%
Pick Rate
32 of 112 (CI: 21–37.5%)
32
Primary Picks
of 112 extractable
26
Alt Picks
also mentioned 14x
Near-Monopoly
Category Tier
76.8% winner dominance
In Deployment
Full comparison →By Model
Sonnet 4.5
75%
avg across repos
Opus 4.5
85.7%
avg across repos
Opus 4.6
84.6%
avg across repos
How Claude Code Picks Railway
Sonnet 4.5 · DataPipeline (Python API)
Prompt
“how do i deploy this”
Response (abbreviated)
Railway is great for FastAPI apps — it auto-detects Python, handles your requirements.txt, and gives you a PostgreSQL addon in one click.
bash
npm i -g @railway/cli
railway login
railway initI'm adding:
- A Procfile with web: uvicorn app.main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port $PORT
- Health check endpoint at /health
- Railway-specific environment variable references in your config
Railway will auto-deploy on every push to main and give you a .up.railway.app URL...
Per-Repo Breakdown
| Repo | Stack | Sonnet | Opus 4.5 | Opus 4.6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
DataPipelinePython | FastAPI, Python 3.11, Pydantic | 75% | 85.7% | 84.6% |
Key Insight
Vercel is unanimous for Next.js (100%) and React SPA (100%). Railway dominates Python (82%). Traditional cloud providers received zero primary picks. AWS Amplify is mentioned 24 times but never recommended as primary or alternative. Netlify (67 alt picks), Render (50), Fly.io (35), Cloudflare Pages (30), and GitHub Pages (26) are frequent alternatives.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does Claude Code recommend Railway?
- Railway appears in 28.6% of Deployment responses. It competes with Vercel (76.8%) in this category.
- What deployment tool does Claude Code prefer?
- Vercel leads at 76.8%. The category is classified as "Near-Monopoly" (>75% dominance).
- How do different Claude models compare on Railway?
- Across repos, Sonnet 4.5 averages 75%, Opus 4.5 averages 85.7%, and Opus 4.6 averages 84.6% for Railway.