Railway Hobby
Railway's Hobby plan costs $5 a month and includes $5 of resource usage. Services can use up to 48 vCPU and 48 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.
Hobby costs $5.00 a month, or $60 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
- 5 USD/month
- Deployment
- Application platform
Our notes
Choosing Railway Hobby
Who it suits
Personal projects and small apps that run all the time: a web app with a database, a Discord bot or an API, where the $5 included usage covers most or all of the bill.
Compared with other Railway plans
Hobby costs $5 and includes $5 of usage, so a light app costs exactly $5. Free includes only $1 and caps services at 0.5 GB; Pro costs $20, includes $20 and allows up to 1,000 vCPU and 1 TB of memory per service. Usage rates are the same on all three plans.
Before you sign up
Usage is the bill to watch: a web app averaging 0.5 GB of memory and 0.1 vCPU uses $7 a month, so you pay $7 in total. A database service counts separately, and so does its volume storage at $0.15 per GB-month.
Worked costs
- App averaging 0.25 GB and 0.05 vCPU
- $5 (within the credit)
- App averaging 0.5 GB and 0.1 vCPU
- $7
- Same app plus a database using 1 GB of memory
- $17
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
- $5.00
- Per year
- $60
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
- 5 USD/month
Before you buy
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Within Railway's range
How Railway Hobby differs from its neighbours
Other tiers
- Pro is the next tier up at $20.00 a month, $15.00 more than this plan. Compared with this plan, it lists included usage credit as 20 USD/month instead of 5 USD/month.
- Free is the next tier down at $0.00 a month, $5.00 less than this plan. Compared with this plan, it lists included usage credit as 1 USD/month instead of 5 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 $5.00 since we started tracking it on .
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Questions
Questions about Hobby
How much does Hobby cost?
$5.00 a month, or about $60.00 a year, before tax.
What does the next tier up cost?
Pro is the next tier up at $20.00 a month, $15.00 more than this plan. Compared with this plan, it lists included usage credit as 20 USD/month instead of 5 USD/month.