Railway is still great for prototypes. For production AI apps, its 2026 reliability record makes it a risky long-term platform choice.
TL;DR
Railway's May 19-20, 2026 outage exposed a control-plane and routing dependency that made workloads across regions unreachable for roughly eight hours.
Railway's public 2026 status history shows a broader pattern across builds, deploys, networking, logs, and workload reachability, not just one bad day.
AI apps are hit harder by streaming-request failures, interrupted vector rebuilds, and agent workflows that die mid-chain.
