Railway Free
Railway's Free plan has no subscription fee and includes $1 of usage credit each month. Services can use up to 1 vCPU and 0.5 GB RAM. Usage is billed at $20 per vCPU per month, $10 per GB of RAM per month, $0.05 per GB of outbound traffic and $0.15 per GB-month of volume storage. This is a usage-billed application platform, not a fixed-size server.
Free costs $0.00 a month, or $0 a year.
This is a platform subscription with usage allowances. It is not a dedicated CPU/RAM server allocation; usage charges and limits depend on the plan.
- Usage credit
- 1 USD/month
- Deployment
- Application platform
Our notes
Choosing Railway Free
Who it suits
Trying Railway, or running a very small service such as a bot or a cron job that uses little memory. The $1 of monthly usage credit buys about 0.1 GB of memory for a month.
Compared with other Railway plans
Free has no subscription and includes $1 of usage, with services limited to 1 vCPU and 0.5 GB of memory. Hobby costs $5 a month, includes $5 of usage and raises the limit to 48 vCPU and 48 GB. Usage is billed at the same rates on every plan: $20 per vCPU, $10 per GB of memory, $0.05 per GB of outbound traffic and $0.15 per GB-month of volume storage.
Before you sign up
A service that keeps 0.5 GB of memory busy all month uses $5 of memory, five times the free credit. Railway bills usage by the resources a service actually uses, so measure your app’s average memory before assuming it fits.
Worked costs
- 0.1 GB of memory for a month
- $1, covered by the credit
- 0.5 GB of memory for a month
- $5
- 10 GB of volume storage
- $1.50
Our arithmetic from the list prices in our catalog, before tax, add-ons and any overage not shown. Hourly prices use 730 hours for a month.
Written on from the prices and limits on this page. We hide these notes if a price they quote changes. How we compare plans
Cost at a glance
What this plan costs you
- Per month
- $0.00
- Per year
- $0
Standard list price before tax, add-ons, backups or bandwidth overage.
Specifications
- Billing scope
- Subscription plus metered usage
- Deployment model
- Application platform
- Included usage credit
- 1 USD/month
Before you buy
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Within Railway's range
How Railway Free differs from its neighbours
Other tiers
- Hobby is the next tier up at $5.00 a month, $5.00 more than this plan. Compared with this plan, it lists included usage credit as 5 USD/month instead of 1 USD/month.
From the published specs and list prices in our catalog. Only published specs that differ are listed.
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Price history
No change to the monthly list price of $0.00 since we started tracking it on .
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Questions
Questions about Free
How much does Free cost?
$0.00 a month, or about $0.00 a year, before tax.
What does the next tier up cost?
Hobby is the next tier up at $5.00 a month, $5.00 more than this plan. Compared with this plan, it lists included usage credit as 5 USD/month instead of 1 USD/month.