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Nixpacks pricing
Nixpacks publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the developer tools tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, Nixpacks pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Nixpacks plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nixpacks | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Nixpacks stops being free
Nixpacks, Free
- MIT licensed, no usage limits
- No commercial edition and no support contract
- In maintenance mode, superseded by Railpack
No paid tier on record
Nixpacks lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Nixpacks feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Automatic language detection
- No Dockerfile required
- Nix toolchains
- Configuration escape hatches
- Docker layer caching
People bring Nixpacks in for understanding the build behaviour of a platform that adopted nixpacks before it was frozen, producing container images from a polyglot monorepo where nobody wants to own several dockerfiles, reproducing an existing railway build locally while planning a migration to railpack, comparing what a nix based builder does differently from a buildpack before choosing a successor. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Nixpacks are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Developer Tools
Too few developer tools tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nixpacks (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Tilt | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Nixpacks |
| Hookdeck | Free, then $39/month | Per month by delivered event count | - | vs Nixpacks |
| Jitsu | Free, then $99/month | Per month by event volume | - | vs Nixpacks |
| Ona (formerly Gitpod) | Free, then $20/month | Per month by compute unit | - | vs Nixpacks |
| Restate | Free, then $300/month | Per month by durable action count | - | vs Nixpacks |
| Cloud Native Buildpacks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Nixpacks |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Nixpacks badges page.
Before you pay for Nixpacks
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Nixpacks runs on linux, macos, cli, docker, and is published by Railway of Distributed. The full record is on the Nixpacks review, and the rest of the category is under best developer tools tools.
Nixpacks pricing questions
- How much does Nixpacks cost?
- Nixpacks publishes a single tier, Nixpacks, at Free.
- Does Nixpacks have a free plan?
- Yes. The Nixpacks tier costs nothing and covers mit licensed, no usage limits, no commercial edition and no support contract, in maintenance mode, superseded by railpack.
- Which developer tools tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 developer tools tools listed alongside Nixpacks have a free tier: Tilt, Hookdeck, Jitsu, Ona (formerly Gitpod), Restate.
- What am I actually paying for with Nixpacks?
- The record lists 5 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for understanding the build behaviour of a platform that adopted nixpacks before it was frozen, producing container images from a polyglot monorepo where nobody wants to own several dockerfiles, reproducing an existing railway build locally while planning a migration to railpack.
- Does Nixpacks charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Nixpacks prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Nixpacks against before paying?
- The closest developer tools tools in this directory are Tilt, Hookdeck, Jitsu, Ona (formerly Gitpod). Each has a side-by-side comparison with Nixpacks covering price, platforms and features.