PaaS / App Hosting · pricing · Updated November 2026
Railway pricing (2026)
Railway starts at $5/mo (Hobby) as checked on 2026-11-01, read from Railway's own pricing page; 3 plans. Best for Developer teams wanting usage-metered PaaS with high resource ceilings. Every figure below links to its source and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Entry price: $5/mo (Hobby)
- Free tier: No
- Compliance: HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
- Best for: Developer teams wanting usage-metered PaaS with high resource ceilings; HIPAA-regulated workloads on a modern deploy platform; Startups scaling from side project to production without renegotiating plans
As of · every figure below links to its source
Railway plans & pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $5 | — | Flat monthly | Includes $5 of resource usage/month. Max 6 replicas per service, 48 GB RAM, 48 vCPU, 100 GB ephemeral storage. Usage beyond $5 credit billed at RAM $10/GB/month, CPU $20/vCPU/month, network egress $0.05/GB. | railway.com |
| Pro | $20 | — | Per user / seat | $20/seat/month. Includes $20 of resource usage per seat. Max 42 replicas, 1 TB RAM, 1,000 vCPU per service. Volume storage up to 1 TB. Annual committed spend discounts available (rate not published). Network egress $0.05/GB. | railway.com |
| Enterprise | not priced monthly | — | Custom / quote | Custom pricing. Contractual SLAs, SSO, dedicated support, procurement flexibility. Max 50 replicas, 2.4 TB RAM, 2,400 vCPU, 5 TB volume storage. | railway.com |
Last verified 2026-11-01. https://railway.com/pricing accessed 2026-06-14; plan resource limits confirmed from https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/plans accessed 2026-06-14.
Price changes
Price on record
$5/moFirst on record 2026-10-16
A new dated entry is stamped here each time the price moves — the record builds itself.
Tracked since October 2026. No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.
Corrections to this record
Changes we made to our own record of Railway, newest first: a figure read again on the vendor's page, a plan it no longer lists, a note. None of them is a price change by Railway. Every correction on the site is in the corrections log.
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Source replaced, price unchanged. https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/plans answers 301 and lands on https://docs.railway.com/pricing/plans — the same page at the address the site now uses. The figure is unchanged and still stands on the day it was read; only the link the reader follows is corrected, so it no longer bounces through a redirect. Same host, same scheme, and the destination keeps every distinguishing word of the page's own name.
Capabilities
Integrations: GitHub, GitLab, Docker, Postgres, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB.
Key features: SOC 2 Type II + HIPAA BAA (confirmed via trust.railway.com); GDPR DPA available at railway.com/legal/dpa; Usage-based billing with generous per-plan resource caps; Volume storage up to 1 TB on Pro, 5 TB on Enterprise.
Plan limits: Hobby: $5/month includes $5 resource credit, max 6 replicas, 48 GB RAM, 48 vCPU; Pro: $20/seat, $20 resource credit per seat, max 1 TB RAM, 1,000 vCPU; Egress: $0.05/GB on all plans; Enterprise: 2.4 TB RAM, 2,400 vCPU, 5 TB volume storage.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Railway cost?
Railway starts at $5/mo (Hobby); it has 3 published plans. Verified 2026-11-01.
Does Railway support HIPAA?
Yes — Railway states HIPAA support on its public pages. Its public pages also state SOC 2 and GDPR compliance.
Does Railway have a free plan?
No — Railway publishes no free tier.
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