Railway deploys your services and bills for the memory, CPU and storage they use, by the second. The Hobby plan has a $5 monthly minimum that includes $5 of usage. New accounts start with a 30-day trial and $5 of credit.
✓Good for
Small services with light or uneven use
Seeing exactly what each resource costs
!Watch out for
Usage-based bills change from month to month
After the trial, the free plan allows 0.5 GB of memory per service and no custom domains
Free trial ($5 credit for 30 days), then Free plan $0/mo with $1 of usage credit, or Hobby: $5/mo minimum, including $5 of usage
Pay for what the service actually uses, billed by the second, with $5 of usage included on Hobby.
The bill follows real memory and CPU use, so it moves month to month. After the trial, the free plan allows 0.5 GB of memory per service and no custom domains.