Railway pricing.
Prices checked
Railway publishes 2 prices, from $5 a month, checked .
Every price Railway publishes
Where to start
Kind
App platform
it takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you
Stops when idle
No
every plan we read stays on
Free tier
No
the cheapest step is a paid one
Smallest billing unit
Second
billed per second, on every plan
Where Railway ranks
What Railway charges on top
What you pay past a plan's allowances. A rate that is not published is not a rate of zero.
Outbound transfer
$0.05 per GB
every gigabyte you serve past the allowance
Build minute
not published
one minute of CI past the allowance
Extra member
not published
one more person on the account
Persistent disk
$0.02 per GB a month
a gigabyte you keep between deploys
Compute is metered per second: $0.00000386 per GB of memory and $0.00000772 per vCPU. The storage rate here is object storage, which Railway prices by the month; volumes are priced per GB per second instead. Builds are not charged separately.
Similar platforms
Other platforms at their cheapest paid plan, cheapest first. Each percentage is against Railway's, $5 a month.
Frequently asked
- What kind of platform is Railway?
- App platform: it takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you. You push a repository or an image and the platform builds it, runs it and keeps it running. There is no operating system to look after and no root, which is the point: the container is replaced rather than repaired. What you size is memory and a share of a processor.
- What is the cheapest Railway plan?
- Hobby at $5/mo, which is no size, the compute is metered, and it stays on. Checked 1 Nov 2026.
- Does Railway stop your app when nothing calls it?
- No. Railway states that all 2 of the plans we read stay on, so nothing here waits for a cold start.
- What does Railway charge on top of the plan price?
- outbound transfer, $0.05 per GB; build minute, not published; extra member, not published; persistent disk, $0.02 per GB a month. Compute is metered per second: $0.00000386 per GB of memory and $0.00000772 per vCPU. The storage rate here is object storage, which Railway prices by the month; volumes are priced per GB per second instead. Builds are not charged separately.
- How current are these Railway prices?
- We read them from Railway's own pricing page every 3 days; the reading on this page is from 1 Nov 2026. Tax is extra.
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