Railway pricing
How Railway charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.
How it charges
Checked 2026-10-03 on railway.com ↗ · USD, list pricesA $5 (Hobby) or $20 (Pro) monthly minimum that counts as usage credit, then $20 per vCPU and $10 per GB of RAM per month, billed by the second, plus $0.05/GB egress.
- Free plan
- No
- Cheapest paid plan
- $5.00/mo
- Side project
- $41/mo Hobby
- Growing
- $45/mo Hobby
- Scaling
- $90/mo Hobby
What the model leaves out
One always-on 1 vCPU / 2 GB server at full utilisation = $20 + 2 × $10 = $40 per 30 days ($0.00000772/vCPU-second, $0.00000386/GB-second); an idle or lightly loaded service costs less, so this is an upper bound. The plan credit really applies to all usage (CPU, RAM, egress, volumes); it is modelled as covering part of a server, which is exact whenever you run at least that much compute. Volumes ($0.15/GB-month) and object storage are left out. The Free plan ($1/month credit, max 0.5 GB RAM per service) can't run a 2 GB server and is omitted; Enterprise is contact-sales. Railway may waive the Hobby fee for some active builders (automated, not by request).
- The Hobby fee is a minimum: you pay $5 even if you use less, and usage above the $5 credit is billed on top.
- CPU and memory are billed on what your service actually uses, by the second, so the bill moves with load rather than with a fixed box size.
- Egress from services costs $0.05/GB with no included allowance beyond what the plan credit covers.
- Hobby is a single-developer workspace (up to 3 project members); Pro includes unlimited workspace seats at no extra charge.
| Plan | Monthly fee | Data transfer out per month | Always-on app servers | Developers on the team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $5.00/mo | $0.05 per GB | 0.13 servers includedthen $40 per server | up to 3 seats |
| Pro | $20/mo | $0.05 per GB | 0.5 servers includedthen $40 per server | — |
What you'd pay
Usage only some alternatives charge for
Hobby$5.00 plan + 0.88 servers × $40 per server + 100 GB × $0.05 per GB$45/mo
Cost as you grow
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