How much does Railway cost?

Railway publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $20/month for Pro. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Free and Pro on Railway?

Pro costs $20/month against Free, and adds private repos, priority support, advanced monitoring, team collaboration.

What am I actually paying for with Railway?

The record lists 22 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for deploying applications and databases without managing servers, running preview environments and services straight from a repository.

Does Railway charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Railway 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 Railway against before paying?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Railway to make a useful price comparison.

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Railway pricing

Railway publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Usage-based
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Railway 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.

Railway pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	4	Entry tier
Pro	$20/month	4	+$20/month, 4 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Free

The entry tier. It covers $5 credit/month, community support, unlimited projects, public repos only.

Pro

$20/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

Private repos
Priority support
Advanced monitoring
Team collaboration

Where Railway stops being free

Free, Free

$5 credit/month
Community support
Unlimited projects
Public repos only

Pro, $20/month

The first thing you pay for:

Private repos
Priority support
Advanced monitoring
Team collaboration

What the product covers

The full Railway 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.

Core

Git integration
Zero-config deployment
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Redis
Environment variables
Custom domains
Monitoring

Integrations

GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Docker
Node.js
Python
Go

Security

HTTPS
Environment encryption
Access control

Deployment

Cloud deployment

Platform

Web support
Api support
Docker support

People bring Railway in for deploying applications and databases without managing servers, running preview environments and services straight from a repository. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Railway are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

Before you pay for Railway

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: 2 tiers between Free and $20/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Railway runs on web, api, docker, and is published by Railway of United States. The full record is on the Railway review.

Railway pricing on the vendor's own site

Railway pricing questions

How much does Railway cost?: Railway publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $20/month for Pro. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Railway have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers $5 credit/month, community support, unlimited projects. Paying starts at $20/month for Pro.
What is the difference between Free and Pro on Railway?: Pro costs $20/month against Free, and adds private repos, priority support, advanced monitoring, team collaboration.
What am I actually paying for with Railway?: The record lists 22 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for deploying applications and databases without managing servers, running preview environments and services straight from a repository.
Does Railway charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Railway 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 Railway against before paying?: Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Railway to make a useful price comparison.

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