Railway

What is Railway?

Runs services, workers and databases from a repo or Docker image, billed by the second for what runs.

Who is Railway best for?

Railway is best for indie developers and small teams who want to deploy apps and databases from GitHub.

• Side projects with a database

  A repo and an open-source database such as Postgres deploy into one project you see on a visual canvas.

• Pull request previews

  Each pull request can get its own preview environment, and a bad deploy rolls back in one click.

• Uneven traffic

  CPU and memory bill by the second for what runs, so you are not paying for idle box sizes.

• Agents that run code

  Isolated Linux sandboxes bill only for CPU used and memory held while running, not for time spent waiting.

How much does Railway cost?

Railway's Free plan starts with a 30-day trial and $5 of credit, then gives $1 of usage a month; Hobby has a $5 monthly minimum and Pro a $20 minimum, each including that much usage.

Usage past the included credit is billed by the second: $0.00000772 per vCPU-second, $0.00000386 per GB-second of memory and $0.00000006 per GB-second of volume storage, plus $0.05 per GB of egress and $0.015 per GB-month of object storage. Sandboxes for agents and untrusted code have their own rates. Enterprise is quoted by sales, and features such as SSO, audit logs and HIPAA agreements open up with a monthly spend commitment. Full pricing on railway.com. We checked these prices on 8 Nov 2026.

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How do I connect Railway to my AI agent?

Railway MCP is Railway's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to deploy and manage Railway projects from your coding agent.

Your agent can create Railway projects, set up services and variables, deploy changes and read logs, so you can ship and check an app without the dashboard.

Claude CodeCursorCodexGitHub Copilot

Terminal

$ claude mcp add --transport http railway https://mcp.railway.com

Claude Code connects to Railway over the web.

Railway's setup guide covers the sign-in.

Then ask your agent

• Deploy this repo to a new Railway project
• Show the latest deploy logs for the API service
• Add a Postgres database to this project

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What are the best Railway alternatives?

Three tools on Recaply do Railway's job. Coolify and Dokku are open source, so you can run them on your own server.

SevallaFree

Kinsta's cloud for deploying apps, managed databases, static sites and object storage from Git.

CoolifyOpen Source

Push-to-deploy for apps, databases and 360+ one-click services on any machine reached over SSH.

DokkuOpen Source

Docker-powered Heroku-style PaaS that runs web apps and databases on a server you rent or own.

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