Railway
Usage-based PaaS on self-owned infrastructure
- HQ
USA- Founded
- 2020
- Locations
- 4
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Railway homepage
At a glance
- Small VM
- $30 /mo
- 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
- Egress
- $50 /TB
- $0.05 / GB
- Object storage
- $15 /mo
- 1 TB
- PostgreSQL
- $87.50 /mo
- 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
What's good about Railway
- Billed by the second on actual CPU and memory utilization
- App Sleeping reduces costs on low-traffic workloads
- Self-owned hardware across US, EU, and Asia
- Template directory with a 15% kickback for template authors, 25% with active support
Railway pricing examples
Railway charges a base subscription that goes towards your usage, then bills actual CPU and memory utilization by the second.
Plans are Free ($0 / mo with $1 of monthly credit), Hobby ($5 / mo with $5 of credit), Pro ($20 / mo with $20 of credit and unlimited seats), and Enterprise (custom).
| Resource | Rate |
|---|---|
| CPU | $20 / vCPU / mo |
| Memory | $10 / GB / mo |
| Volumes | $0.15 / GB / mo |
| Object storage | $0.015 / GB / mo |
| Egress | $0.05 / GB |
| Price point | Configuration | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|
| Small VM 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | $30.00 /mo |
| Medium VM 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | $160.00 /mo |
| Large VM 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | $320.00 /mo |
| Block storage 100 GB | 100 GB | $15.00 /mo |
| Object storage 1 TB | 1 TB | $15.00 /mo |
| Load balancer | Included in plan | |
| PostgreSQL 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | $87.50 /mo |
| Redis 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | $30.00 /mo |
| Egress $0.05 / GB | $0.05 / GB | $50.00 /TB |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
About Railway
Railway is a US-based PaaS founded in 2020, targeting developers and teams deploying full-stack applications. It runs on self-owned hardware across US, EU, and Asia rather than reselling AWS or GCP capacity.
The platform bills by the second on actual CPU and memory utilization rather than fixed instance sizes, so idle services can cost near zero. Deployments support GitHub, Docker images, and the CLI, with managed databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis), persistent volumes, and object storage included.
Services
Railway offers 9 of the 27 services we track.
Locations
Based on our records, Railway operates in 4 locations across 3 countries.
| Country | Location | Region code |
|---|---|---|
 Netherlands
|
Amsterdam | europe-west4-drams3a |
 Singapore
|
Singapore | asia-southeast1-eqsg3a |
|
USA
|
California | us-west2 |
|
USA
|
Virginia | us-east4-eqdc4a |
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Our data for Railway was last updated on Sept. 16, 2026.