Railway
Deploy anything, anywhere
Railway is an infrastructure platform where you can provision infrastructure, develop with that infrastructure locally, and then deploy to the cloud.
Our Verdict
Railway is perfect when you need containers, databases, or non-serverless workloads. The Heroku successor many were waiting for.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- +Supports any stack (Docker)
- +Great for databases
- +Simple pricing
- +Good DX
Cons
- -No true free tier
- -Less optimized for static/edge
- -Smaller ecosystem
Features
Static HostingYes
Serverless FunctionsNo
Edge FunctionsNo
Preview DeploymentsYes
Custom DomainsYes
CI/CDYes
Docker SupportYes
Best For
Full-stack appsBackend servicesDatabase hosting
Pricing
Free tier available
Trial$0
- - $5 credit
- - 500 hours
- - Limited resources
Hobby$5/mo
- - $5 included
- - 8GB RAM
- - Persistent storage
Pro$20/mo
- - $20 included
- - 32GB RAM
- - Autoscaling
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Last updated: 2026-01-15