Railway

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As of 30 August 2026, Railway is free to use. Railway is an infrastructure platform where you can provision infrastructure, develop with that infrastructure locally, and then deploy to the cloud. Softwr lists it under Cloud. Railway is launched in 2021, available on Web, API, Self-hosted.

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Overview

What Railway does

Railway is an infrastructure platform where you can provision infrastructure, develop with that infrastructure locally, and then deploy to the cloud. No configuration required.

What people use it for

Deploying applications and databases without managing servers
Running preview environments and services straight from a repository

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Railway.

Plan fees are usage credits rather than allowances, so the $5 Hobby and $20 Pro fees are spent on compute and anything beyond is billed on top
The free plan carries $1 of monthly credit and caps a service at 1 vCPU and 0.5 GB
Compute is metered per second for both memory and CPU, so cost tracks uptime rather than traffic and an idle service still bills
Egress is $0.05 per GB on top of compute
The Pro fee is per workspace rather than per user or per project

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Railway

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Pricing

What Railway costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free

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

Pro

$20 /mo

Private repos
Priority support
Advanced monitoring
Team collaboration

Capabilities

Features

Git integration
Zero-config deployment
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Redis
Environment variables
Custom domains
Monitoring
GitHub
Integration with GitHub
GitLab
Integration with GitLab
Bitbucket
Integration with Bitbucket
Docker
Integration with Docker

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

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How much does Railway cost?

Railway's Hobby plan is $5 per month and includes $5 of monthly usage credit. Pro is $20 per month per workspace with $20 of credit included. Enterprise is quoted. Usage beyond the included credit is billed per second.

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Does Railway have a free tier?

Yes, two. A one-time Free Trial gives $5 of credit valid for 30 days, and an ongoing Free plan includes $1 per month with 1 vCPU and 0.5 GB per service, 1 replica and 3 days of log history.

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What are Railway's resource limits per plan?

The Free plan allows 1 vCPU and 0.5 GB per service with 1 replica. Hobby raises that to 48 vCPU and 48 GB with 6 replicas. Pro allows 1,000 vCPU and 1 TB per service with 42 replicas and 30 days of log history.

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How does Railway bill usage above the included credit?

Railway charges memory at $0.00000386 per GB per second and CPU at $0.00000772 per vCPU per second, with storage volumes at $0.00000006 per GB per second, plus separate egress and object storage fees.

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Behind it

Who makes Railway

Company: Railway
Based in: United States

Timeline

Railway over time

Funding2026-01-22$100m
Series B funding round
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Funding2022-05-31$20m
Series A funding round
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