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Railway — A usage-based cloud deployment platform for apps, databases, and background jobs, with a $20/month Pro workspace plan that includes unlimited team seats.

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Best for: developers and small teams wanting Heroku-style deploys with usage-based pricing and unlimited team seats

Pricing: Free at $0/month ($1 usage credit); Hobby $5/month; Pro $20/month per workspace with unlimited seats; Enterprise custom.

  • Railway's Free plan costs $0/month with $1 of monthly usage credit included.
  • Railway's Pro plan costs $20/month per workspace and includes unlimited team seats.
  • Usage beyond included credits bills per second: $0.00000772/vCPU-second, $0.00000386/GB-second for memory, $0.05/GB for egress.
  • Railway auto-detects build systems via Nixpacks and supports managed Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and ClickHouse.
  • Railway includes an MCP server for AI-agent-driven deployments and a one-command railway up -y deploy flow.

Limitations: Usage-based compute billing on top of plan fees can be unpredictable.; Free tier is capped at $1/month in credits and 0.5 GB RAM per service.; SLAs and dedicated support require the custom Enterprise tier.

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What is Railway?

Railway is a cloud deployment platform that takes source code or a template and handles building, running, networking, and monitoring the resulting application, database, or background job. It auto-detects how to build a project using Nixpacks (overridable with a Dockerfile), and supports managed Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and ClickHouse alongside custom services and scheduled jobs. Pricing is workspace-based rather than per-seat: the $20/month Pro plan includes unlimited team members, with actual compute, memory, and egress billed by the second on top of an included usage credit. Railway leans into AI-agent workflows with a built-in MCP server for agent-driven deployments and a single railway up -y command that authenticates and deploys in one step, alongside more conventional PaaS features like automatic PR preview environments, one-click rollback, and private IPv6 networking between services.

Railway is an infrastructure platform that deploys applications, managed databases, background jobs, and Railway Functions directly from source code or a template, auto-detecting build systems via Nixpacks or a Dockerfile. Pricing runs from a $0/month Free plan with $1 of monthly usage credit up through Hobby ($5/month, $5 credit included) and Pro ($20/month per workspace with unlimited seats and $20 credit included), plus custom Enterprise pricing; beyond included credits, usage bills per-second for CPU, memory, volumes, and egress. It targets developers and small teams who want a Heroku-style deploy experience without per-seat pricing. Railway differentiates on its agent-native tooling: an MCP server lets AI coding agents deploy and manage services directly, and railway up -y combines authentication and deployment into a single command. Other standout features include automatic PR preview environments, one-click rollback to prior deploys, private IPv6 networking between services, and managed Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and ClickHouse databases.

Standout feature: Pro is a flat $20/month per workspace with unlimited team seats rather than per-user pricing, and a built-in MCP server plus railway up -y let AI coding agents deploy and manage services directly.

Biggest weakness: Usage-based billing on top of the plan fee can surprise teams that don't watch resource limits — the Free tier is capped at just $1/month in credits and 0.5 GB RAM per service — and SLA guarantees, SSO, and dedicated support are only available on the custom-priced Enterprise tier.

Pros

  • Pro plan is a flat $20/month per workspace with unlimited team seats, not per-user pricing.
  • Auto-detects build systems via Nixpacks, or use a Dockerfile for full control.
  • Managed Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and ClickHouse databases available out of the box.
  • MCP server integration and railway up -y support agent-driven, one-command deployments.

Cons

  • Usage-based compute billing on top of plan fees can be hard to predict for variable workloads.
  • Free tier is very limited: $1/month in usage credit and 0.5 GB RAM per service.
  • SLAs, SSO, and dedicated support require the custom-priced Enterprise tier.

Railway pricing

Free tier · paid from $5/mo · verified from the vendor's pricing page

PlanPriceNotes
FreeFree$1 of monthly usage credit included; capped at 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB per service, 1 replica, 3-day log history.
Hobby$5/mo$5 of monthly usage credit included; up to 48 vCPU / 48 GB per service, 6 replicas, 7-day log history. Aimed at solo developers and side projects.
Pro$20/moPer workspace, not per seat — unlimited team members included. $20 of usage credit included; up to 1,000 vCPU / 1 TB per service, 42 replicas, 30-day log history.
EnterpriseCustomCustom pricing with contractual SLAs, SSO, dedicated support, and procurement options.

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