Deploy and Host Rivet on Railway

Rivet manages stateful workloads for AI agents, durable compute, or realtime use cases.

About Hosting Rivet

• Long-Lived, Stateful Compute: Each unit of compute is like a tiny server that remembers things between requests – no need to re-fetch data from a database or worry about timeouts. Like AWS Lambda, but with memory and no timeouts.

• Blazing-Fast Reads & Writes: State is stored on the same machine as your compute, so reads and writes are ultra-fast. No database round trips, no latency spikes.

• Realtime, Made Simple: Update state and broadcast changes in realtime with WebSockets or SSE. No external pub/sub systems, no polling – just built-in low-latency events.

• Store Data Near Your Users: Your state lives close to your users on the edge – not in a faraway data center – so every interaction feels instant. (Not all platforms supported.)

• Infinitely Scalable: Automatically scale from zero to millions of concurrent actors. Pay only for what you use with instant scaling and no cold starts.

• Fault Tolerant: Built-in error handling and recovery. Actors automatically restart on failure while preserving state integrity and continuing operations.

• Type Safety: End-to-end TypeScript safety between clients and actors with full type inference and compile-time checking.

Common Use Cases

Actors are perfect for applications that need persistent state and real-time updates:

• AI & Automation

  • AI agents: Stateful AI assistants with conversation history
  • AI sandbox orchestration: Actors can orchestrate logic running inside of agents' sandboxes
  • Durable workflows: Long-running business processes with state persistence and recovery

• Real-time Communication

  • Chat rooms: Real-time messaging with message history and user presence
  • Collaborative documents: Multiple users editing documents simultaneously (Yjs integration)
  • Multiplayer games: Game state management with real-time updates
  • Live events: Broadcasting updates to many participants

• Data & Synchronization

  • Local-first sync: Offline-first applications with server synchronization
  • Multi-tenant databases: Isolated data stores for each user or tenant
  • Scheduling: Time-based task execution with persistent state

• Infrastructure

  • Rate limiting: Distributed rate limiting with persistent counters
  • Stream processing: Real-time data processing with persistent state

Dependencies for Rivet Hosting

None

Deployment Dependencies

None

Why Deploy Rivet on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Rivet on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.