Railway
Cloud and hosting · railway.com
Railway is a cloud platform for deploying apps, databases and background jobs straight from a code repository. Developers and small teams use it to host side projects and production services, and billing runs by the second for the CPU, memory and storage a service actually uses.
Ratings
About the Tools.us.org score
A weighted average of the published ratings below, shown out of 10 in the header above.
Based on 2 sources, 47 ratings.
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Included: App Store 3.7 (weight 13), Google Play 4.7 (weight 34).
Facts at a glance
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Freemium: a free plan exists | railway.com/pricing, checked 5 Nov 2026 |
| Free trial | 30 days, no card required | railway.com/pricing, checked 5 Nov 2026 |
| Starting price | $5/mo | railway.com/pricing, checked 5 Nov 2026 |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | railway.com, checked 5 Nov 2026 |
Pricing & plans
Pricing
Free plan · paid from $5/mo
USD, billed monthly
Model
Freemium
Free plan available
Trial
Yes
30 days, no card required
Up to 1 vCPU and 0.5 GB RAM per service
0.5 GB of volume storage
1 project and 3 services per project after the trial
Community support only
The Hobby plan is a $5 minimum monthly usage charge that includes $5 of usage credits
Resources are billed by the second for CPU, memory, volumes and egress
Source: railway.com/pricing, checked 5 Nov 2026
Features & platforms
Deploy from a connected repository
Visual canvas of the whole infrastructure
Private networking and automatic SSL
Logs, metrics and traces in one dashboard
Preview environments for every pull request
Isolated Linux sandboxes and VMs
- Web
- iOS
- Android
Sources: railway.com, railway.com/pricing, checked 5 Nov 2026
Alternatives
Static sites deploy free forever, and the platform also offers web services, Postgres databases, key value stores and cron jobs.
Bills only for resources used with no monthly platform fee, and lists the smallest always-on app at $2.19 per 30 days.
Eco dynos cost $5 a month with 0.5 GB of RAM and deploy with Git or Docker.
Sources: render.com/pricing, fly.io/docs/about/pricing, heroku.com/pricing
Also in Cloud and hosting on Tools.us.org: Cloudflare, Firebase, Modal, Netlify, Supabase, Vercel
Sources and dates
- App Store: checked 6 Nov 2026, listing
- Google Play: checked 5 Nov 2026, listing
- Plan facts: railway.com/pricing, checked 5 Nov 2026
- Official site: railway.com
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