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Railway

Deploy applications and infrastructure to the cloud with automatic scaling and global availability

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Available worldwide

What is Railway?

A cloud deployment service that connects to your code repository, automatically builds and deploys applications, provides integrated databases and monitoring, and handles scaling and traffic management.

Independently observed

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.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $5/moSubscriptionFree tier30-day trial

Free tier + Hobby ($5/month) + Pro ($20/month) + Enterprise (custom). Sandbox infrastructure metered at $50/GB RAM, $50/vCPU, $0.05/GB egress.

Free

Free
Free

For getting started with small apps

  • 30-day free trial with $5 credits
  • Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service
  • Community support

Hobby

$5/month included credits

For hobbyist developers building side projects

max_replicas
5
monthly_credits
$5
ram_per_service
48 GB
vcpu_per_service
48
  • Up to 48 vCPU / 48 GB RAM per service
  • Up to 5 replicas at 8 vCPU / 8 GB RAM
  • Single developer workspace
  • 99.9% Availability Target
  • Global regions
  • Preview environments
  • GitHub repo deployment
  • Docker Image deployment
  • Custom Dockerfile support
  • Service variables and secrets management
  • One-click rollbacks
  • Deploy any open-source database
  • Built-in database and volume backups
  • Free Railway domains
  • Build/Deploy logs
  • Vertical autoscaling

Pro

$20/month included credits

For professional developers and teams shipping production applications

max_replicas
42
monthly_credits
$20
ram_per_service
1 TB
vcpu_per_service
1000
  • Up to 1,000 vCPU / 1 TB RAM per service
  • Up to 42 replicas at 24 vCPU / 24 GB RAM
  • Railway Support
  • 99.99% Availability Target
  • Concurrent global regions

Enterprise

Contact sales
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For teams shipping at scale with compliance and support needs

  • 18-Month Audit Log Retention
  • Role-Based Access Control
  • HIPAA Business Associate Agreements
  • 99.999% Availability Target
  • Isolated Linux VMs for agents, builds, and untrusted code
  • Enterprise Support with SLOs
  • Custom dedicated infrastructure
  • Cloud regions
  • Services with up to 48 vCPU / 48 GB RAM per replica

Add-ons

  • Sandbox Usage$50 per GB + $50 per vCPU + $0.05 per GB

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.

Deploy
Git-push auto-deploy
✓
Deploy arbitrary container image
✓
Per-PR preview environments
✓
Build
Build system
Dockerfile
Runtime / language breadth
Multi-language support via Railpack auto-detection and templates
Scale
Autoscaling
Horizontal
Deployment
Geographic reach
Multi-region
Hosting
Cloud + self-hosted
Data
Bundled managed data services
✓
Delivery
Built-in global CDN / edge
✓
Custom domains + automatic TLS
✓
Ops
Env vars & secrets management
✓
Instant rollbacks
✓
Extensibility
CLI + deploy API
✓
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • iOS
  • Web
  • Android
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (11)

Independently observed
notifications
  • Email→•
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  • ChatGPT⇄•
  • Grok⇄•
  • GitHub
  • Docker
  • Slack
  • Discord
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis

Security & compliance

Independently observed
  • SOC 2active
  • HIPAAactive

Railway FAQ

Common questions about Railway, answered from independent, dated evidence.

What is Railway?

A cloud deployment service that connects to your code repository, automatically builds and deploys applications, provides integrated databases and monitoring, and handles scaling and traffic management. It is indexed under PaaS & Hosting.

Source: https://railway.com/changelog/2023-06-02-plans-and-pricing-changes

Is Railway free?

Railway offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $5 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.

Source: https://railway.com/changelog/2023-06-02-plans-and-pricing-changes

What platforms does Railway support?

Railway supports the web, iOS, Android and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.

Source: https://railway.com/changelog/2023-06-02-plans-and-pricing-changes

Can Railway be self-hosted?

Yes. Railway can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.

Source: https://railway.com/changelog/2023-06-02-plans-and-pricing-changes

What does Railway integrate with?

We have confirmed 8 integrations for Railway, including GitHub, Docker, Slack, Discord, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and Redis. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.

Source: https://railway.com/changelog/2023-06-02-plans-and-pricing-changes

What security certifications does Railway have?

We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Railway. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Railway not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.

Source: https://railway.app/security

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Balanced composite 80 / 100
medium · 60%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability1000.1615.6✓
Security posture600.126.9✓
Pricing transparency1000.066.3✓
Capabilities960.054.9✓
Price level800.043.4✓
Integrations260.051.3✓

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Content

AttributeValueEvidence
Faq6 itemsmediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
CapabilitiesHosting: both · Regions: multi · Edge cdn: Yes · Runtimes: Multi-language support via Railpack auto-detection and templates · Rollbacks: Yes · Autoscaling: horizontalmediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count7mediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityPrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …mediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 50%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60%
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60%
Starting priceAmount: 5 · Currency: USDmediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Sla pct99.99mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-09-23 · 75%
HipaaYesmediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60%
Soc2Yesmediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60%
CertificationsSOC 2, HIPAAmediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60%
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