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Railway
Railway is a managed platform for deploying application services, databases and supporting infrastructure from a project dashboard or configuration. CPU, memory and volume usage is metered per second; Railway operates the host infrastructure, so a customer-owned server is not required.
Data status: verified · Checked: 2026-10-16
Good fit if
Free includes $1/month usage credit; Hobby is $5/month with $5 included usage; Pro is $20/workspace/month with $20 included usage. Usage above included credits is billed by resource consumption.
May not fit if
The $5 trial credit is one-time and expires after 30 days; it is not a recurring free plan. Free's $1 monthly credit is small and resource use can exceed it only on paid plans.
Features and benefits
- Free includes $1/month usage credit; Hobby is $5/month with $5 included usage; Pro is $20/workspace/month with $20 included usage. Usage above included credits is billed by resource consumption.
- Services, volumes, private networking, public domains, deployments and databases can be combined in projects; plan limits vary for replicas, memory, CPU, domains and logs.
Limitations
- The $5 trial credit is one-time and expires after 30 days; it is not a recurring free plan. Free's $1 monthly credit is small and resource use can exceed it only on paid plans.
- Compute, memory, disk, egress and object storage have separate rates. Custom domain allowances and maximum service sizes depend on plan; domain registration and external services are separate.
Pricing
Free
0 USD · monthly
$0 plan fee with $1 monthly usage credit; up to 1 vCPU/0.5 GB per service, one replica, one project and no custom domains. Resource consumption beyond credits is not free.
Pricing sourceHobby
5 USD · monthly
$5 monthly fee includes $5 resource usage credit; usage above the allowance is metered per second. Egress is $0.05/GB and volume storage $0.15/GB-month.
Pricing sourcePro
20 USD · monthly
$20/month includes $20 resource usage credit; usage above allowance is billed. Resource rates and plan limits apply; taxes and external services may be extra.
Pricing sourceSources
- https://railway.com/pricing · 2026-10-16: plan fees and usage credits, trial terms, CPU/memory/volume/egress rates, service and domain limits, per-second billing
- https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/plans · 2026-10-16: official plan and billing documentation