Railway review

Railway is a usage-billed platform that runs a frontend as a service next to its API and database. A new account gets a 30-day free trial with $5 of credits and no credit card required. Hobby has a $5 minimum monthly usage that includes $5 of credits, a single developer workspace, up to 48 vCPU and 48 GB RAM per service and 7-day log history. Pro has a $20 minimum, includes $20 of credits, and raises limits to 1,000 vCPU and 1 TB of RAM per service with up to 42 replicas. Railway fits developers who want a Next.js server, a Postgres database and a worker running together with little configuration. It is not a CDN-first static host, though, so pure static sites gain little compared with Cloudflare Pages or Netlify, and Hobby does not support teams.

Who it is for

solo developers deploying full-stack side projects

Price

Free trial with $5 of credits for 30 days; Hobby $5 minimum usage per month; Pro $20 minimum usage.

Hobby $ 5 minimum usage For hobbyist developers building side projects Includes $5 of monthly usage credits
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 12, 2026.

Key features

• Usage-based billing with included monthly credits
• Up to 48 vCPU and 48 GB RAM per service on Hobby
• Horizontal scaling via replicas and vertical autoscaling
• Global regions for deployments
• Sandboxes and a Railway Agent for AI-assisted changes

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Hobby includes $5 of usage credit each month
• Strength: Free trial needs no credit card
• Strength: Runs databases and services in the same project
• Weakness: Hobby is a single developer workspace
• Weakness: No CDN-first static hosting like Cloudflare Pages or Netlify
• Weakness: After the trial the free tier limits each service to 1 vCPU and 0.5 GB RAM

Key facts

• Trial: $5 of credits for 30 days
• Hobby: $5 minimum usage per month
• Pro: $20 minimum usage per month

Where it ranks

Railway is No. 9 in our Best Frontend Hosting Platforms verdict.