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What Railway is
Container hosting with databases, environments and usage-based pricing, aimed at shipping side projects and small services quickly.
What Railway has cost
We have read this pricing page 7 times since Jan 2025, including archived copies of it. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
- $5/moJan 2025 – Jul 2025 · Hobby · 2 readings · archived page
- $5†Jan 2026 · Hobby · 1 reading · archived page
- $5/moJul 2026 – Sept 2026 · Hobby · 4 readings · archived page
† The page showed this figure beside a monthly/annual switch and did not say which one it belonged to, so we publish the number without claiming a billing period. Readings like this are shown but never compared, which is why they never produce a price change.
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
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Where Railway sits on price
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13 of these 13 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page. The median is taken across the 13 verified prices in Developer Tools. 1 more tool in this category does not publish an entry price and is not plotted. Showing the 10 cheapest.
Railway pricing questions
- How much does Railway cost?
- Railway starts at $5 a month on its Hobby plan, billed monthly. That figure was read from railway.com's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
- Does Railway have a free plan?
- No. Railway does not publish an ongoing free plan.
- What is Railway used for?
- Container hosting with databases, environments and usage-based pricing, aimed at shipping side projects and small services quickly. People mainly use it to deploy a backend, host a database, run a service.
- What are the best alternatives to Railway?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are GitHub, Vercel, Supabase, Sentry. GitHub starts lower at $4 a month. GitHub, Vercel, Supabase and Sentry publish a free plan.