Railway
Everything below comes from Railway's own pricing page or from published third-party review data. Read on 19 September 2026.
We have not used Railway. There is no verdict on this page, no score, and no opinion about how it feels to work in — because we would be making that up. What we do instead.
Visit RailwayThe facts
- Free plan
- Trial with $5 credits for 30 days; after that the lowest plan bills from $1/mo minimum
- Paid from
- $5/mo minimum (Hobby, includes $5 usage credit)
- Billed on
- Base subscription plus usage — RAM, CPU, storage and egress are metered per second
- G2 rating
- 4.7 / 5 from 39 reviews
- Trustpilot rating
- 2.7 / 5 from 85 reviews
- Checked
- 19 September 2026
Plans, as printed on their pricing page
| Plan | Price | What the page lists |
|---|---|---|
| Free/Trial | $0 — $5 one-time credits, 30 days | Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5GB RAM per service; then a $1/mo minimum tier |
| Hobby | $5/mo minimum, includes $5 usage | Up to 48 vCPU / 48GB RAM per service, 5GB storage |
| Pro | $20/mo minimum, includes $20 usage | Up to 1,000 vCPU / 1TB RAM per service, 1TB storage |
| Usage rates | RAM $0.00000386/GB/s · CPU $0.00000772/vCPU/s | Egress $0.05/GB; object storage $0.015/GB-month |
Source: railway.com/pricing. Prices are US list prices in USD, read from each vendor pricing page on the date above. Vendors localise pricing by country — we saw GetResponse quote in Vietnamese dong from a Vietnamese connection — so what you see may differ. Always confirm on the vendor page before buying.
Reasons to consider it
- Deploy an app, database or cron job from a Git repo in minutes — G2 reviewers rate the developer experience 4.7 from 39 reviews
- Per-second usage billing means small side projects cost very little
- No DevOps: networking, TLS and scaling are handled for you
Reasons to look elsewhere
- Trustpilot is polarised: 2.7 from 85 reviews, 47% one-star, citing outages, sudden account suspensions and billing surprises
- Usage-based bills are hard to predict — set hard limits before deploying anything traffic-heavy
- Reviewers report support response times that hurt when production is down
What the review scores say
Railway holds 4.7 out of 5 on G2 from 39 reviews, and 2.7 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 85 reviews.
A two-point split: 4.7 on G2 from 39 reviews against 2.7 on Trustpilot from 85 — both samples small. Developers love the workflow; the Trustpilot side reports outages, suspensions and billing disputes. For hobby projects the risk is low; for production, weigh the reliability complaints.
What we cannot tell you
How Railway feels after a month of real use. Whether support actually answers when something breaks. Whether the workflow fits your specific case. Those need an account and real use, and we have not done that. Anyone publishing those answers without doing the work is guessing, and you deserve to know which is which.
We have not compared this against rivals yet
Railway is the first product we have documented in app hosting platforms. A single product is not a comparison, so there is no category page for it yet — we will build one once we have read the pricing pages of its main competitors and can put them side by side on the same facts.
Frequently asked questions about Railway
How much does Railway cost?
Railway starts at $5/mo minimum (Hobby, includes $5 usage credit). Paid tiers: Free/Trial ($0 — $5 one-time credits, 30 days); Hobby ($5/mo minimum, includes $5 usage); Pro ($20/mo minimum, includes $20 usage); Usage rates (RAM $0.00000386/GB/s · CPU $0.00000772/vCPU/s). Prices are US list prices in USD, read from each vendor pricing page on the date above. Vendors localise pricing by country — we saw GetResponse quote in Vietnamese dong from a Vietnamese connection — so what you see may differ. Always confirm on the vendor page before buying.
Does Railway have a free plan or free trial?
Trial with $5 credits for 30 days; after that the lowest plan bills from $1/mo minimum
How is Railway rated?
Railway scores 2.7 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 85 reviews (checked 19 September 2026). A two-point split: 4.7 on G2 from 39 reviews against 2.7 on Trustpilot from 85 — both samples small. Developers love the workflow; the Trustpilot side reports outages, suspensions and billing disputes. For hobby projects the risk is low; for production, weigh the reliability complaints.
When was this Railway information last checked?
We last read Railway's own pricing page and its public review data on 19 September 2026.
How we check this page
We read Railway's own pricing page and its public review profiles ourselves, write down exactly what they say, link the source and date every figure (checked 19 September 2026). We do not invent scores or rankings, and we disclose that we may earn a commission when you buy through our links. When a rating is low or the review sample is small, we say so plainly.