What is Railway?
Railway is a cloud platform for deploying, scaling, and managing applications with automatic infrastructure management, built-in databases, and global deployment capabilities. It offers integrated monitoring, collaboration features, and pay-per-second usage pricing.
Railway pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $5/month (Hobby). Free tier available. Usage-based pricing with per-second metering on top of monthly minimum spend.
Free
FreeFree with 30-day trial including $5 credits; $1/month after trial
- projects
- 5 during trial, then 1
- volume_storage
- 0.5 GB
- RAM_per_service
- 0.5 GB
- vCPU_per_service
- 1
- Up to 1 vCPU per service
- Up to 0.5 GB RAM per service
- 0.5 GB volume storage
- Community support
- No credit card required
- Deploy a new project
Hobby
$5/month minimum with $5 monthly usage credits included
- projects
- 50
- replicas
- 5
- volume_storage
- 5 GB
- RAM_per_service
- 48 GB
- vCPU_per_service
- 48
- Up to 48 vCPU per service
- Up to 48 GB RAM per service
- Up to 5 replicas at 8 vCPU/8 GB each
- Up to 5 GB volume storage
- 99.9% availability SLA
- 7-day log history
- Global regions
- Community support
- 2 custom domains
Pro
$20/month minimum with $20 monthly usage credits included
- projects
- 100
- replicas
- 42
- volume_storage
- 1 TB
- RAM_per_service
- 1 TB
- vCPU_per_service
- 1000
- Up to 1,000 vCPU per service
- Up to 1 TB RAM per service
- Up to 42 replicas at 24 vCPU/24 GB each
- Up to 1 TB volume storage
- Unlimited workspace seats
- 99.99% availability SLA
- 30-day log history
- Railway Support (priority)
- Concurrent global regions
- 20 custom domains
Enterprise
Contact salesCustom pricing for large-scale, compliance-focused deployments
- replicas
- 50
- RAM_per_service
- 2.4 TB
- vCPU_per_service
- 2400
- log_retention_days
- 90
- Up to 2,400 vCPU per service
- Up to 2.4 TB RAM per service
- Up to 50 replicas at 48 vCPU/48 GB each
- 99.999% availability SLA
- 90-day log history
- 18-month audit log retention
- Single Sign-On (SAML)
- Role-Based Access Control
- HIPAA BAAs
- Dedicated VMs
- Bring your own cloud option
- Support SLOs
What Railway does
The capabilities that matter for paas & hosting, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Git-push auto-deploy
- ✓
- Deploy arbitrary container image
- ✓
- Per-PR preview environments
- ✓
- Build system
- Dockerfile
- Runtime / language breadth
- -
- Autoscaling
- Horizontal
- Geographic reach
- Multi-region
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Bundled managed data services
- ✓
- Built-in global CDN / edge
- -
- Custom domains + automatic TLS
- ✓
- Env vars & secrets management
- ✓
- Instant rollbacks
- ✓
- CLI + deploy API
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- GitHub
- Slack
- Discord
Railway alternatives
Other paas & hosting we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- VercelAgentic Infrastructure to ship apps and agentslow · 49%
- NetlifyPush your ideas to the webmedium · 64%
- KoyebHigh-performance Infrastructure for APIs, Inference, and Databasesmedium · 60%
- CoolifySelf-hosting with superpowerslow · 21%
- DokkuThe smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seenlow · 21%
- Platform.shThe cloud application platform humans and AI agents lovemedium · 59%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Railway, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 100 | 30.00 | 2985.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 60 | 22.00 | 1320.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 92 | 12.00 | 1099.6 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 16.00 | 277.0 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","regions":"multi","rollbacks":true,"autoscaling":"horizontal","cli_and_api":true,"env_secrets":true,"build_system":"dockerfile","git_push_deploy":true,"preview_deploys":true,"container_deploy":true,"managed_databases":true,"custom_domains_tls":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |