# Railway MCP Server vs Render MCP Server (slim)

> Render MCP Server scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Railway MCP Server's 56.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Railway MCP Server leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do infra cloud. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side…

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Render MCP Server scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Railway MCP Server's 56.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Railway MCP Server leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do infra cloud.

- Railway MCP Server: C 56.7, rank #565 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/railway-mcp-server.min.md
- Render MCP Server: B 63.6, rank #352 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/render-mcp-server.min.md
- Railway MCP Server, good for Agents that deploy and operate applications on Railway from an editor and are content to hand multi-step work to Railway's own agent. Ahead on Security & auth, 65 against 58; Maintenance & community, 83 against 56.
- Render MCP Server, good for Agents that deploy and debug applications on Render, reading logs and metrics and querying Postgres. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 76 against 56; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 59; Transparency & trust, 84 against 73. Also Open source; No incidents deducted, where Railway MCP Server loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Railway MCP Server | Render MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 56 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 59 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 56 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 84 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Railway MCP Server | Render MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Railway Corporation | Render Services, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.railway.com` | `https://mcp.render.com/mcp` |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted server under Railway's Terms of Service. The Railway CLI, which carries the stdio proxy and a separate local MCP server, is MIT | Apache-2.0 for the server. The Render platform it acts on is a proprietary service under Render's Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | 11 | 26 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.railway/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-01-14 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-07-10 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-07-10 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |
| Popularity | 426k npm/wk | 176 stars |