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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:

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.

render · fly-io · hetzner-cloud · oracle-cloud-free