Railway

Container PaaS, usage-based

Free tier + paidHosting, deploy & edgerailway.com

What it is

Usage-based container PaaS that deploys any Dockerfile or auto-detected framework alongside one-click Postgres, Redis and Mongo. Subscription fees include an equal usage credit; past that you pay $20 per vCPU-month, $10 per GB RAM-month and $0.05 per GB egress.

Why it earns a slot

Fastest path from a repo plus a database to a live URL — templates, private networking and env var references just work. Ideal when your Vite frontend needs a real always-on API and Postgres beside it.

Know before you commit

Egress at $0.05/GB is 2.5x Fly and 5x Bunny, so never serve media from it. Railway does offer a true hard usage limit: set one in workspace settings and all workloads go offline at 100% — note they do not auto-restart, you must restart manually.

Getting started

npm i -g @railway/cli && railway up

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Pricing snapshot

Trial: $5 credit for 30 days. Hobby $5/mo including $5 usage. Pro $20/seat/mo including $20. Compute $20 per vCPU-month and $10 per GB RAM-month, egress $0.05/GB, billed per second.

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Evaluate Railway (https://railway.com) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Container PaaS, usage-based. Usage-based container PaaS that deploys any Dockerfile or auto-detected framework alongside one-click Postgres, Redis and Mongo. Subscription fees include an equal usage credit; past that you pay $20 per vCPU-month, $10 per GB RAM-month and $0.05 per GB egress.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): Fastest path from a repo plus a database to a live URL — templates, private networking and env var references just work. Ideal when your Vite frontend needs a real always-on API and Postgres beside it.
Watch out for: Egress at $0.05/GB is 2.5x Fly and 5x Bunny, so never serve media from it. Railway does offer a true hard usage limit: set one in workspace settings and all workloads go offline at 100% — note they do not auto-restart, you must restart manually.
Pricing: Trial: $5 credit for 30 days. Hobby $5/mo including $5 usage. Pro $20/seat/mo including $20. Compute $20 per vCPU-month and $10 per GB RAM-month, egress $0.05/GB, billed per second.
Setup: npm i -g @railway/cli && railway up
Rules: treat the notes above as background only. Do not assume a theme, style, layout or feature that is not already in this project — inspect the existing code first and ask me before changing visual direction.

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