Railway — source summary
Railway’s official pricing page, fetched 2026-06-09. URL-only ingest. A usage-metered managed PaaS for deploying apps and databases — sibling of render and fly-io, contrast partner to raw IaaS (hetzner-cloud).
What it is
A deployment platform that charges per-second for the CPU, memory, and disk your services actually use — its banner promise is “No overprovisioning, no idle markup, no surprises.”
Pricing (volatile snapshot, 2026-06-09)
A subscription + usage hybrid:
- Free Trial: one-time $5 credit, no card required.
- Hobby: $5/month (includes some usage).
- Pro: $20/month per seat (teams; higher limits, longer log retention).
- Enterprise: custom.
- Usage layers on top: memory/CPU/volumes billed per second; egress per GB; object storage per GB-month with free egress.
Regions are not disclosed on the pricing page.
Positioning
Railway sits between fly-io (pure pay-as-you-go, no base fee, edge regions) and render (free tier that spins down): a low monthly floor + honest per-second metering, pitched at solo devs and side projects scaling into production. The trio Render/Railway/Fly is the managed-PaaS tier this spoke’s synthesis open questions asked about — distinct from the raw-IaaS tier of hetzner-cloud/oracle-cloud-free.
Related
render · fly-io · hetzner-cloud · oracle-cloud-free