Railway pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Free: $0 per month
- Hobby: $5 per month minimum usage
- Pro: $20 per month minimum usage
- Enterprise: Custom (Custom)
- Worth noting: Hobby and Pro include monthly usage credits equal to their minimum usage; usage beyond the credits is billed per second. Enterprise is custom priced.
Plans
Free
$0 per month
- Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service
- 0.5 GB volume storage
- Community support
- Deploy a new project
- No credit card required
Hobby
$5 per month minimum usage
- Includes $5 of monthly usage credits
- Up to 48 vCPU / 48 GB RAM per service
- Up to 5 replicas, at 8 vCPU / 8 GB RAM per replica
- Up to 5 GB storage
- Single developer workspace
- Community support
- 99.9% availability target
- 7-day log history
- Global regions
Pro
$20 per month minimum usage
- Includes $20 of monthly usage credits
- Up to 1,000 vCPU / 1 TB RAM per service
- Up to 42 replicas, at 24 vCPU / 24 GB RAM per replica
- Up to 1 TB storage
- Unlimited workspace seats included
- Railway Support
- 99.99% availability target
- 30-day log history
- Concurrent global regions
Enterprise
Custom Custom
- 90-day log history
- Single Sign-On
- 18-month audit log retention
- Role-based access control
- HIPAA BAAs
- Support SLOs
- 99.999% availability target
- Highest compute limits
- Dedicated VMs
- Bring your own cloud
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Free | Hobby | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Projects | 5 during trial, then 1 | 50 | 100 | Unlimited |
| Services per project | 5 during trial, then 3 | 50 | 100 | Unlimited |
| CPU per service | Up to 2 vCPU during trial, then up to 1 vCPU | Up to 48 vCPU | Up to 1,000 vCPU | Up to 2,400 vCPU |
| RAM per service | Up to 1 GB during trial, then up to 0.5 GB | Up to 48 GB | Up to 1 TB | Up to 2.4 TB |
| Ephemeral disk | 1 GB | 100 GB | 100 GB | 100 GB |
| Volume storage | 0.5 GB | Up to 5 GB | Up to 1 TB | Up to 5 TB |
| Replicas per service | 2 during the free trial, then 1 | Up to 6 | Up to 42 | Highest compute limits |
| Concurrent builds | 3 during trial, then 1 | 3 | 10 | 10+ |
| Build timeout | 20 mins during trial, then 10 mins | 40 mins | 90 mins | 90+ mins |
| Log retention | 7 days during trial, then 3 | 7 days | 30 days | 90 days |
| Audit logs | 48 hours | 48 hours | 30 days | 18 months |
| Custom domains | 1 trial, then 0 | 2 | 20 | Unlimited |
| Service domains | 2 | 4 | 20 | Unlimited |
| Project members | 1 | 3 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Running sandboxes per environment | 10 | 50 | 100 | 100, can be increased |
| Support | Community support | Community support | Railway Support | Priority support |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Sandbox memory | about $50 per GB-month, while running | Sandboxes |
| Sandbox CPU | about $50 per vCPU-month, active use only | Sandboxes |
| Object Storage | $0.015 per GB-month | Object storage |
| Egress | $0.05 per GB | Services and sandboxes |
Railway pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Railway | Free; paid from $5 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | — | |
| Kubernetes | — | — | — | Teams running containerized applications that need to scale across on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructure | Compare → |
| Harness | Contact sales | Yes | Flat tiers | Enterprise engineering and platform teams that want CI, CD, security and cost controls on one governed platform. | Compare → |
| GitHub | Free; paid from $4 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | Development teams, from individuals to enterprises, that build, review, and ship software on one platform. | Compare → |
| GitLab | Free; paid from $29 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | Scaling development teams and enterprises that need advanced security and compliance capabilities | Compare → |
List prices as published on railway.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.