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Railway pricing. Free limits, real cost.
What Railway’s plans include, the limits its own docs state, and what a small project pays there each month. From Railway’s pricing pages, checked Oct 3, 2026.
The plans
The plans a small project chooses between. Larger and enterprise plans are left out.
| Plan | What you get | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| FreeFree | $1 of usage a month, after a 30-day trial with $5 of creditSource · checked Oct 3, 2026 | — |
| HobbyPaid | $5 a month, which covers the first $5 of usageSource · checked Oct 3, 2026 | — |
What a small project pays at Railway
The same example projects as the comparison, priced on each Railway plan for one developer.
Small web app
50 GB sent to visitors, 1,000,000 requests and 20 deploys a month. Compare every provider →
- Hobby$17.72 a month0.5 vCPU in use all month: $10.14. 512 MB memory: $5.07. 50 GB sent out at $0.05: $2.50. The $5 plan fee counts toward this usage. Railway bills what the app actually uses, so a mostly idle app costs less
- FreeDoesn’t fitIncludes $1 of usage a month; this uses about $17.72.
API with scheduled jobs
5 GB sent to visitors, 300,000 requests and 5 deploys a month. Compare every provider →
- Hobby$15.47 a month0.5 vCPU in use all month: $10.14. 512 MB memory: $5.07. 5 GB sent out at $0.05: $0.25. The $5 plan fee counts toward this usage. Railway bills what the app actually uses, so a mostly idle app costs less. Scheduled jobs run inside the same server
- FreeDoesn’t fitIncludes $1 of usage a month; this uses about $15.47.
Price changes at Railway
None recorded since we began checking on Oct 3, 2026. We re-check every month.
List prices in US dollars, monthly billing, before tax. If Railway’s own page says something different, Railway’s page is right. This page has no affiliate links.
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