Prices you can doin your head
A plan sets the ceiling per service and includes some usage. Usage is billed per minute of reserved memory, CPU and disk, and drawn from a balance you top up. No invoices, no overage surprises.
One service, this month
$16.70on Hobby
- memory 1 GB × $8
- $8.00
- cpu 0.5 vCPU × $15
- $7.50
- disk 10 GB × $0.12
- $1.20
- egress after 100 GB free
- $0.00
- usage
- $16.70
- included in Hobby
- −$5.00
- plan fee
- $5.00
We bill reserved memory and CPU per minute. Railway bills memory held and CPU actually used, so a mostly idle service can cost less there than the list price suggests. Hours below 730 model a service that sleeps.
Plans
Change plan any time. The difference is prorated to the minute.
Free
$0forever
No usage credit
Try a real deploy. One small service, no card.
- services
- 1 service
- memory
- 512 MB
- cpu
- 1 vCPU
- GitHub deploys with TLS domain
- Build logs and live logs
- Sleeps after 10 min idle
Hobby
Most picked$5per month
$5 of usage included
Side projects and small production apps.
- services
- Unlimited services
- memory
- up to 8 GB / service
- cpu
- up to 8 vCPU / service
- Postgres, MySQL, Redis templates
- Preview environments per PR
- Volumes and custom domains
- Metrics, 7 days retention
Pro
$20per month
$20 of usage included
Teams and workloads that need headroom.
- services
- Unlimited services
- memory
- up to 32 GB / service
- cpu
- up to 32 vCPU / service
- Everything in Hobby
- Team members and roles
- Metrics, 30 days retention
- Priority support
Usage rates
The same on every plan. A service reserves memory and CPU; you pay for the reservation per minute, whether it is busy or idle. Scale it down and the meter slows down.
- Memory
- billed per minute of reserved RAM
- $8 per GB-month
- CPU
- billed per minute of reserved vCPU
- $15 per vCPU-month
- Disk (volumes)
- NVMe, snapshots included
- $0.12 per GB-month
- Egress
- first 100 GB / month free
- $0.03 per GB
Three worked examples
Monthly usage before the credit included in your plan. 730 hours a month.
| Setup | Reserved | Usage / month |
|---|---|---|
| Static site or small Next.js app | 512 MB · 0.25 vCPU | $7.75 |
| API + Postgres + 10 GB volume | 1 GB / 0.5 vCPU + 512 MB / 0.25 vCPU + 10 GB | $24.45 |
| Worker fleet, 4 services | 4 × 2 GB / 1 vCPU | $124.00 |
On Hobby the first example costs $7.75 minus $5 included, so $2.75 on top of the $5 plan. Free-tier services sleep when idle and are not metered.
Side by side with Railway
If you know Railway you know Skiffly. Same shape of product, different trade-offs: fewer regions, cheaper usage, EU-only data, more payment options and stronger isolation.
| Skiffly | Railway | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | $5 / mo, $5 usage included | $5 / mo, $5 usage included |
| Pro plan | $20 / mo, $20 usage included | $20 / mo, $20 usage included |
| Memory | $8 / GB-month | $10 / GB-month |
| CPU | $15 / vCPU-month | $20 / vCPU-month |
| Volume storage | $0.12 / GB-month | $0.15 / GB-month |
| Egress | $0.03 / GB after 100 GB free | $0.05 / GB |
| Payment | Card, PayPal, crypto, prepaid balance | Card only |
| Data location | EU only (Finland today, more EU regions planned) | US, EU, Asia regions |
| When credit runs out | 3 day grace, then pause. No invoice. | Invoice, then service stop |
| Workload isolation | gVisor / Kata microVM | Containers |
Railway figures from railway.com/pricing, September 2026. Check their page for the current numbers. A check marks the column with the lower price or the wider option; regions are a real advantage of Railway.
Start on Free, upgrade when you need the headroom
Plans change instantly and are prorated to the minute.