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Frontend cloud platform for static sites and serverless functions with global edge network.
Free tier available
Railway combines plan commitments with metered usage. Free is listed at $0 per month with trial credits for new users, Hobby has a $5 minimum usage commitment, Pro has a $20 minimum usage commitment, and Enterprise is custom. CPU is listed at $0.00000772 per vCPU-second, memory at $0.00000386 per GB-second, volumes at $0.00000006 per GB-second, service egress at $0.05 per GB, and object storage at $0.015 per GB-month.
Railway can host managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis services and supports deployment workflows such as rollbacks and health checks. Application-level schema migrations still need to be handled by the application's framework or migration tool, such as Prisma, Django migrations, Rails migrations, or a custom migration command.
Resource behavior depends on the plan, service configuration, and spending controls. Teams should review plan limits for CPU, RAM, replicas, storage, projects, services, log retention, domains, and support before production use, then configure alerts or limits to reduce the chance of unexpected billing.
Railway is often a better fit when the same platform should run backend services, workers, Docker services, and managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Redis. Vercel may be a better fit for frontend-first workflows, edge-centric deployments, or teams already standardized on its frontend platform.
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