Railway pricing and limits
iScoreApplication platform that builds services from a repository or Dockerfile and bills plan fees that include usage credits.
Railway pricing at a glance
- Entry paid plan
- $5 / month (Hobby) source ↗
- Pricing model
- A base subscription fee that goes towards usage, with the plan's own credit included; anything beyond the credit is billed as resource usage source ↗
- What the free plan includes
- A $0 plan alongside Hobby at $5 and Pro at $20 source ↗
- Egress over allowance
- $0.05 / GB source ↗
- When you exceed a cap
- Billed automatically: on the Hobby plan ($5/month, includes $5 of resource usage) usage above the included amount is charged as a delta on… source ↗
Railway plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 a month | 30-day trial with $5 of credits, then $1 a month; up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service |
| Hobby | $5 minimum usage | Includes $5 of usage credits a month |
| Pro | $20 minimum usage | Includes $20 of usage credits a month |
Pricing | Railway · read · every row quoted from this page
| Resource | Rate |
|---|---|
| Memory | $0.00000386 per GB per second |
| CPU | $0.00000772 per vCPU per second |
| Volumes | $0.00000006 per GB per second |
| Egress | $0.05 per GB |
| Object storage | $0.015 per GB-month, free egress |
Pricing | Railway · read · every row quoted from this page
Who it suits
Teams that want a plan fee which doubles as usage credit, and deploy services straight from a Dockerfile without managing servers. The $5 Hobby fee comes back as $5 of resource usage.
Consider something else if…
You need to run in a region outside California, Virginia, Amsterdam or Singapore.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
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Railway pricing
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- Railway Plans ↗
“Plan Price Free $0 / month Hobby $5 / month Pro $20 / month Enterprise Custom”
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- Plans — Railway Docs ↗
“Railway offers four plans in addition to a Trial: Free For running small apps with $1 of free credit per month Hobby For indie hackers and developers to build and deploy personal projects”
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- Railway Plans ↗
“Plan Price Free $0 / month Hobby $5 / month Pro $20 / month Enterprise Custom [...] Plan Policy Free / Trial 24 hours Hobby 72 hours”
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- Plans — Railway Docs ↗
“Plan Price Free $0 / month Hobby $5 / month Pro $20 / month Enterprise Custom”
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- Plans — Railway Docs ↗
“We charge a base subscription price, which goes towards your resources and usage. [...] The subscription fee goes towards your usage-costs on the platform. Plan Price Free $0 / month Hobby $5 / month Pro $20 / month Enterprise Custom”
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- Plans — Railway Docs ↗
“CPU $20 / vCPU / month ($0.000463 / vCPU / minute) Network Egress $0.05 / GB ($0.000000047683716 / KB) Volume Storage $0.15 / GB / month”
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- Pricing Plans | Railway Docs ↗
“If your total resource usage exceeds $5 in any given billing period, you will be charged the delta”
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Limits
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Railway Pricing ↗
“Ephemeral disk 1 GB 100 GB 100 GB 100 GB Volume storage 0.5 GB Up to 5 GB Up to 1 TB Up to 5 TB Volumes per project 3 during trial, then 1 10 20, can be increased Unlimited”
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- Plans — Railway Docs ↗
“Plan Replicas RAM CPU Ephemeral Storage Volume Storage Image Size [...] Hobby 6 48 GB 48 vCPU 100 GB 5 GB 100 GB [...] Note that these are maximum values and include replica multiplication. [...] RAM $10 / GB / month”
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- Railway Pricing ↗
“Resources & limits Projects 5 during trial, then 1 50 100 Unlimited Services per project 5 during trial, then 3 50 100 Unlimited”
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- Public Networking specs and limits — Railway Docs ↗
“Connections 10,000 concurrent connections The number of concurrent connections. HTTP Requests/Sec 11,000~ RPS The number of HTTP requests to a given domain per second.”
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- Specs & Limits — Railway Docs ↗
“HTTP requests can run for up to 15 minutes if data keeps transferring (for example, keep-alive heartbeats), and are otherwise closed after 5 minutes with no data transferred. [...] Websocket connections are exempt from these duration and inactivity limits, and can stay open indefinitely, even while idle.”
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Execution
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- Specs & Limits ↗
“HTTP requests can run for up to 15 minutes if data keeps transferring (for example, keep-alive heartbeats), and are otherwise closed after 5 minutes with no data transferred. [...] Websocket connections are exempt from these duration and inactivity limits, and can stay open indefinitely, even while idle.”
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- PostgreSQL Connection Pooling — Railway Docs ↗
“Railway can add PgBouncer as a connection pooler in front of your PostgreSQL service. PgBouncer multiplexes many application connections into a smaller pool of server connections, reducing overhead and allowing your database to serve far more concurrent clients than max_connections alone would permit.”
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Deployment
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Controlling GitHub Autodeploys — Railway Docs ↗
“Services linked to a GitHub repository automatically deploy when new commits are pushed to the connected branch.”
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- Railway Dockerfiles ↗
“Use a Dockerfile to instruct Railway how to build a service.”
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- Cron Jobs | Railway Docs ↗
“Cron Jobs allow you to start a service based on a crontab expression. [...] The shortest time between successive executions of a cron job cannot be less than 5 minutes.”
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Infrastructure
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- Services — Railway Docs ↗
“Types of services Persistent services Services that are always running. Examples include web applications, backend APIs, message queues, database services, etc.”
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- Volumes | Railway Docs ↗
“Volumes are a feature that enables persistent data for services on Railway. [...] When mounting a volume to a service, a volume is made available to the service on the specified mount path.”
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- Databases — Railway Docs ↗
“Railway enables you to deploy and manage databases alongside your applications. [...] The fastest way to deploy a database is through Railway's database templates [...] These templates are maintained by Railway and come pre-configured with sensible defaults.”
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- Edge Networking — Railway Docs ↗
“Railway uses a globally distributed edge network to route traffic to your deployments. [...] Edge POPs are the entry points where user traffic first reaches Railway. Each request is terminated at the nearest POP and tagged with that POP's ID in the X-Railway-Edge header.”
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- App Sleeping — Railway Docs ↗
“The first request made to a slept service wakes it. [...] For Railway to put a service to sleep, a service must not send outbound traffic for at least 5 minutes. [...] Slept services still consume a slot on Railway's infrastructure, enabling Serverless de-prioritizes your workload”
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- Scaling | Railway Docs ↗
“Scaling your applications in Railway is made easy with configurable options for horizontal scaling as well as vertical autoscaling out-of-the-box. [...] Scale horizontally by manually increasing the number of replicas for a service in the service settings.”
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- Regions — Railway Docs ↗
“Name Location Region Identifier US West Metal California, USA us-west2 US East Metal Virginia, USA us-east4-eqdc4a EU West Metal Amsterdam, Netherlands europe-west4-drams3a Southeast Asia Metal Singapore asia-southeast1-eqsg3a”
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- Railway Pricing ↗
“single developer workspace community support 99.9% availability target 7-day log history [...] unlimited workspace seats included railway support 99.99% availability target 30-day log history”
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Auth
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Railway Trust Center ↗
“Product Security Audit Logging Data Security Integrations View more Reports HIPAA Report Pentest Report SOC 2 Report View more”
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Support
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Railway Pricing ↗
“up to 5 GB storage single developer workspace Community support 99.9% availability target [...] unlimited workspace seats included Railway support 99.99% availability target”
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Compliance
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Railway Trust Center ↗
“Use this Trust Center to learn about our security posture and request access to our security documentation. Compliance SOC 2 Type 2 SOC 3 HIPAA GDPR EU-US DPF Swiss-US DPF Documents All Public Private Get access Bulk download REPORTS HIPAA Report REPORTS Pentest Report REPORTS SOC 2 Report REPORTS SOC 3 Report”
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- Railway Trust Center ↗
“Compliance SOC 2 Type 2 SOC 3 HIPAA GDPR EU-US DPF Swiss-US DPF Documents All Public Private Get access Bulk download REPORTS HIPAA Report [...] COMPLIANCE HIPAA COMPLIANCE SOC 2 Type 2 COMPLIANCE SOC 3”
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- Railway Trust Center ↗
“Compliance SOC 2 Type 2 SOC 3 HIPAA GDPR EU-US DPF Swiss-US DPF Documents All Public Private”
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Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Railway Trust Center ↗
“Data Security Data Backups Data Erasure Encryption-at-rest View more App Security Responsible Disclosure Bot Detection Code Analysis”
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Railway pricing questions
How does Railway charge?
A base subscription fee that goes towards usage, with the plan's own credit included; anything beyond the credit is billed as resource usage.
Plans — Railway Docs · read
Does Railway have a free tier?
Yes. A $0 plan alongside Hobby at $5 and Pro at $20. Deployment images on the free and trial tier are retained 24 hours, against 72 on Hobby.
Railway Plans · read
What happens if you exceed Railway's limits?
Billed automatically: on the Hobby plan ($5/month, includes $5 of resource usage) usage above the included amount is charged as a delta on top of the subscription — no throttling or suspension is documented.
Pricing Plans | Railway Docs · read
What uptime does Railway guarantee?
Published as availability targets rather than a contractual SLA: 99.9% on Hobby, 99.99% on Pro, 99.999% on Enterprise, which also adds support SLOs.
Railway Pricing · read
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