Does Railway offer a free plan or free trial?

Yes to both. Railway has a free plan (with limitations noted below) and also offers a 30-day free trial of paid plans.

What are all of Railway's pricing tiers?

Railway has 4 publicly-priced tiers as of September 14, 2026: • Free Trial — free. one-time $5 usage credit. • Hobby — $5/mo. includes $5 usage/mo, billed per-second above. • Pro — $20/mo. per seat, includes $20 usage/mo. • Enterprise — custom-priced. SLAs + compliance.

Has Railway raised or lowered prices recently?

Railway's pricing has been stable since Sep 20, 2026. See full history at /tools/railway/price-history.

How does Railway pricing compare to other Developer & Infrastructure tools?

Railway is on the lower end of Developer & Infrastructure pricing. Of the 43 Developer & Infrastructure tools we track with published entry prices, Railway is among the 3 cheapest at $5/month. The cheapest option in this category is GitHub at $4/month.

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Railway

Railway · Developer & Infrastructure

Modern PaaS positioned as the alternative to Heroku for developers who want git-push-to-deploy simplicity plus per-resource billing. Distinctive for its usage-based pricing (compute per GB-hour, RAM per GB-hour) versus flat dyno pricing at Heroku. Free trial credits give hobby projects room; production apps typically $20-$500/mo. YC-backed, popular with indie hackers and Series A/B startups.

In other words, Railway is worth it for developers building side projects or small production apps who want Heroku-style ease with modern pricing — deploy any GitHub repo in one click, scale to serverless functions. Hobby covers indie dev use; Pro adds team features and higher limits. Very easy setup — the whole point. Native integrations with GitHub, GitLab, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis. Downside: usage-based scaling can surprise you at scale, and lacks the enterprise features of AWS/GCP for production-critical apps.

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Pricing summary

Starting price

$5/mo

Pricing model

Hybrid

Monthly Only

Key limit

Usage credits

Main metered limit

Additional fees

Varies

2026-09-14 auto-refresh: Hobby $5/mo (includes $5 usage) and Pro $20/mo (includes $20 usage) re-confirmed unchanged across four sources (docs.railway.com/pricing/plans — vendor, makerkit.dev, livemy.app, temps.sh). No movement, no snapshot written. PER-SEAT vs PER-WORKSPACE STILL UNRESOLVED — second consecutive cycle. This run returned BOTH readings again, this time inside the same result set: one source states 'Pro is priced per workspace, not per seat — adding a fourth developer does not add $20/month', another states 'Pro costs $20/month per seat'. Two runs, no convergence, so not auto-applied. Our stored Pro description still says 'per seat, includes $20 usage/mo'. This materially changes team cost modelling (a 5-dev team is either $20/mo or $100/mo) and is the single most useful manual check on this record. Settle it on railway.com/pricing. Metered rates re-confirmed: $20/vCPU/mo, $10/GB RAM/mo, $0.05/GB egress, $0.15/GB/mo volume storage. Billing axes: compute (vCPU-hours), memory (GB-hours), egress (GB). Plan fees are usage credits, not caps. Aug 5 2026 Free-plan watch item: still no new evidence this run about the reported Free-plan change or the '$1/mo after 30-day trial' claim. Recheck railway.com/changelog. --- PRIOR NOTE (2026-08-18) --- Hobby $5/mo and Pro $20/seat/mo confirmed unchanged (Railway docs pricing/plans + railway.com/pricing). Structural watch: third-party tracker reports an Aug 5 2026 Free-plan change (1 vCPU/0.5GB RAM, 0.5GB storage, $5 credits) and describes Free as $1/mo after a 30-day trial — single source, wording unclear, not applied.

Free trial

30-day free trial + free plan

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Alternatives to consider

Next.js team? Pick Vercel. Full-stack Postgres? Supabase or Render. Enterprise-grade with all AWS features? Actual AWS.

All plans

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Plan	Monthly	Annual	Key limit
Free Trial	Free	—	one-time $5 usage credit
HobbyEntry tier	$5	—	includes $5 usage/mo, billed per-second above
Pro	$20	—	per seat, includes $20 usage/mo
Enterprise	Custom	Custom	SLAs + compliance

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Price history

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Common questions about Railway

Is Railway worth it?: Railway is worth it for developers building side projects or small production apps who want Heroku-style ease with modern pricing — deploy any GitHub repo in one click, scale to serverless functions. Hobby covers indie dev use; Pro adds team features and higher limits.
What are the pricing tiers of Railway?: Railway has 4 plans: Free Trial (free), Hobby ($5/mo), Pro ($20/mo), Enterprise (custom).
Is Railway priced per user?: No. Railway is priced hybrid, so your bill is not driven purely by seat count.

Frequently asked questions

About Railway pricing.

Railway pricing starts at $5/month on monthly billing. Railway offers 4 paid plans in total, ranging from $5 to $20/month. Enterprise pricing is custom-quoted.