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$5/mo

Per-second measured container CPU/RAM and volume usage, plus service egress and object storage, against plan monthly minimum/included credits. Separate, higher VM meter applies to Sandboxes/Cloud Agents; builds/image storage free.

Free tier
Not documented

Trial: $0, one-time $5 credit for30days, no card; 2vCPU/1GB and2replicas. Afterwards Free is $0/month WITH $1 of free monthly usage credit, not a $1 subscription. Anonymous VM: ssh railway.new,2vCPU2GB,60min build +24h claim window, up to3 boxes/IP/day and sharedAIbudget; preview creator-IP-only until claimed.

Isolation
Container

shares the host kernel

Regions
4

California, USA · Virginia, USA · Amsterdam, Netherlands · Singapore

Capabilities
30 / 61

11 partial · 20 fail · 0 not assessed

Agent readiness
11/11 · 11/11

read · drive, pre-login surface

Advertised for

Web apps/API servers · PostgreSQL/MySQL/Redis/MongoDB database services with user enabled backup/PITR/HA features · Background/cron jobs · Single file Bun/TypeScript Functions (ordinary services) · Isolated Ubuntu sandbox VMs · Persistent Cloud Agent development VMs (Priority Boarding) · Dev.new prompt to app builder preview

Built for

Developers, then semi-technical builders

  • · CLI/SSH/GraphQL/IaC workflows (railway.com/agents.md;docs/infrastructure-as-code.md)
  • · Usage-metered containers/VMs and explicit networking/replica vocabulary

01 Pricing Per-second measured container CPU/RAM and volume usage, plus service egress and object storage, against plan monthly minimum/included credits. Separate, higher VM meter applies to Sandboxes/Cloud Agents; builds/image storage free.

Tier EntryTrialFreeHobbyProTopEnterprise
Price $0/mo$0/mo$5/mo$20/moCustom
Includes One-time $5 credit for30days;2vCPU/1GB RAM;2replicas;0.5GB volume$1/month free usage credit;1vCPU/0.5GB RAM;1replica;0.5GB volume$5 included usage/month;48vCPU/48GB aggregate service maximum;6replicas;5GB volume maximum$20 included usage/month per workspace;unlimited seats;1,000vCPU/1TB RAM aggregate;42replicas;volume default50GB, self-serve up to1TBCustom usage;up to50replicas and2,400vCPU/2.4TB RAM;volume up to5TB;SLAs/BYOC/custom support
Transfer overage $0.05/GB$0.05/GB$0.05/GB$0.05/GB$0.05/GB
Storage overage $0.15/GB$0.15/GB$0.15/GB$0.15/GB$0.15/GB
vCPU hours overage $0.027792/h$0.027792/h$0.027792/h$0.027792/h$0.027792/h
Memory gb hours overage $0.013896/h$0.013896/h$0.013896/h$0.013896/h$0.013896/h

Free tier: Trial: $0, one-time $5 credit for30days, no card; 2vCPU/1GB and2replicas. Afterwards Free is $0/month WITH $1 of free monthly usage credit, not a $1 subscription. Anonymous VM: ssh railway.new,2vCPU2GB,60min build +24h claim window, up to3 boxes/IP/day and sharedAIbudget; preview creator-IP-only until claimed.

vCPU-second; GB-second RAM; GB-month volume/bucket; GB egress; monthly workspace subscription·Card required: No·docs.railway.com

Overages: Container CPU $0.00000772/vCPU-s and RAM $0.00000386/GB-s; derived hourly rates $0.027792 and $0.013896. Volume $0.15/GB-month; object storage $0.015/GB-month, free bucket egress/API ops. Separate VM CPU and RAM rates each $0.00001929/unit-s (~$0.069444/hour, $50/unit-month). Never apply cheap container rates to sandbox/Cloud Agent fleets.

02 Website design Desktop public website · assessed 15 Oct 2026

Complete assessment.

Railway combines dark, spacious serif-led marketing with a softly colored, light documentation hub. Illustrated night-sky scenery and a product architecture demo lead the landing page; pricing switches to sparse usage-led composition, while docs organize pastel technical illustrations into a practical navigation grid.

  • Editorial minimalism
  • Technical illustration
  • Landing page: captured
  • Pricing: captured
  • Docs: captured

03 Runtime Each fact carries its source; dots show confidence. Open a row for the evidence.

Isolation & lifecycle

Isolation primitive
Containershares the host kernel
Persistence
Service containers use ephemeral filesystems; attach one persistent volume per service. Volumes default 0.5 GB Free/Trial, 5 GB Hobby, 50 GB Pro; paid live resizing, Pro self-serve to 1 TB, Enterprise up to 5 TB. 3,000 read and 3,000 write IOPS; volumes cannot be used with replicas. Cloud Agents retain disk across sleep, but sleep ends processes.
Snapshots / forks
Sandboxes fork a RUNNING source in the same environment and region; disk-only clone, no process/memory state. Named disk checkpoints remain bootable after source destruction. Fork configuration does not inherit size, env, idle timeout, domains. Databases support optional volume backups and PostgreSQL/MySQL PITR sibling restores; not instant CoW data branches.

Resources & limits

Storage
Persistent volumes $0.15/GB-month (not $0.16), 3,000 read/write IOPS. First-party private S3-compatible buckets $0.015/GB-month with free bucket egress/API operations; Tigris metal; bucket access over public networking only, encrypted at rest. No public buckets/versioning/object locks/lifecycle/automatic bucket snapshots.
Limits & quotas
Aggregate per-service plan maximums: Trial 2 replicas / 2 vCPU / 1 GB RAM; Free 1 / 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB; Hobby 6 / 48 vCPU / 48 GB; Pro 42 / 1,000 vCPU / 1 TB; Enterprise 50 / 2,400 vCPU / 2.4 TB. These totals already include replica multiplication. Sandboxes/environment: Trial/Free 10, Hobby 50, Pro 100, Enterprise initially100 negotiable. Sandbox sizes Trial/Free2vCPU2GB; Hobby default4/4 max8/8; Pro default8/8 max32/32 in docs (pricing page conflicts with24/24; disclose conflict). Idle Trial/Free5min default and1–5min range; Hobby/Pro30min default,1–120min or0=infinite. Functions one TypeScript file max96KB.
GPU
CPU-based platform; no GPU compute offering.

Access

Deploy interface
git-pushdockerfilecontainer-imagebuildpackclisdkapimcpdashboardtemplate
SDK languages
TypeScriptPythonGo

Network & secrets

Egress controls
Pro supports permanent outbound IPv4 addresses (three HA addresses, potentially shared); opt-in outbound IPv6 per service. Sandbox ISOLATED default prevents private peer reachability; PRIVATE joins environment private network. Both modes retain outbound internet via NAT; no outbound destination allowlist/firewall demonstrated. Outbound SMTP only Pro+; other plans use third-party HTTPS email APIs.
Secrets
Service/shared env variables and references, CLI/API/dashboard management. Sandboxes accept env at create/fork. Cloud Agents carry real available local agent credentials into personal VMs; not guest-hidden credential proxy. OpenRouter key stored encrypted per workspace.
Bring your own cloud
Bring your own cloud is advertised for Enterprise; custom/gated, not a self-hostable OSS platform.

Placement & use

Jurisdiction
Railway Corporation; US operations and SF contact address, Delaware governing law. Four workload regions: California, Virginia, Amsterdam, Singapore. Region pinning available; a volume migration across regions causes downtime. No EU sovereignty guarantee: privacy policy says services largely operated in US.
Advertised workloads
Web apps/API serversPostgreSQL/MySQL/Redis/MongoDB database services with user enabled backup/PITR/HA featuresBackground/cron jobsSingle file Bun/TypeScript Functions (ordinary services)Isolated Ubuntu sandbox VMsPersistent Cloud Agent development VMs (Priority Boarding)Dev.new prompt to app builder preview

04 Capabilities 30 pass · 11 partial · 20 fail · 61 of 61 assessed

  • Supported
  • Partially supported
  • Not supported
  • Not assessed

Compute & storage 6/11

Persistent diskStorage that survives restart/stop (not ephemeral-only).
Supported
Object storageManaged S3-compatible / blob object store the platform PROVIDES to a user's workloads (buckets, presigned URLs). DISTINCT from persistent-disk (block/volume attached to an instance) and from a self-host dependency (source.self_host.deps[]=["object-storage"] is an infra dep to RUN an OSS tool — the opposite direction). SCOPE varies and matters: native first-class (Railway Buckets, Cloudflare R2) vs a sibling SKU / extension (Fly Tigris, Bunny Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces) — record which in the evidence quote / note. Admitted v15.
Supported
Snapshots / forkingSnapshot or copy-on-write fork of a running instance (filesystem-only counts). Whether the snapshot also restores memory + running processes is recorded separately by memory-snapshot (v19).
Supported
Live-state (memory) snapshotsA snapshot / checkpoint / pause captures a running instance's MEMORY and PROCESS state and restores it, so running processes continue where they left off instead of a freshly booted instance with the same files. Counts whether user-triggered (snapshot, checkpoint, pause-to-storage) or used to restore pre-initialised state (memory snapshots for fast cold starts). Distinct from snapshots-forks (any snapshot or fork, including filesystem-only; a product passing that key may still fail this one) and from scale-to-zero (an idle-cost property; suspension may or may not keep memory). Actor multiplexing (see scale-to-zero) records its live-state half here — only when the suspended actor's MEMORY/process state is what comes back, not a freshly booted worker with the actor's files.
Not supported
Scale to zeroIdle instances suspend at no / negligible cost. ACTOR MULTIPLEXING (many suspended stateful actors sharing a small pool of pre-warmed workers, woken on request — Agent Substrate, AX, kagent; Rivet's hibernating actors) has NO key of its own (proposal REJECTED v20) — score the idle-cost half HERE and the live-state half under memory-snapshot; the oversubscription ratio / density is a performance characteristic the registry does not key.
Supported
GPU computeGPU-backed instances available.
Not supported
Multi-regionCompute placeable in more than one geographic region.
Supported
Sandbox templates / custom imagesBuild reusable sandbox/VM images from an OCI image or Dockerfile (a base you fork instances from).
Supported
Cloud-init / ignition configCustomise a VM / microVM / instance at boot via cloud-init (or ignition) user-data — the same boot-metadata interface as AWS/Azure/GCP. Inject packages, users, SSH keys, files, and run-commands declaratively at launch. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a PREBUILT image you fork instances from) — this is PER-LAUNCH declarative customisation, not a baked image.
Not supported
Desktop / computer-use sandboxA virtual desktop (GUI) for LLM computer-use — browser + desktop automation, often via noVNC/VNC.
Not supported
Selectable isolation runtimeThe user chooses the isolation runtime per workload / environment / sandbox from more than one option (e.g. microVM vs gVisor vs plain container, native namespaces vs gVisor, gVisor vs VM). Records the CHOICE; the isolation_primitive facet still records the best-evidenced primary. A platform that switches runtime automatically without a user choice (e.g. gVisor forced for GPU) does not pass on that alone.
Not supported

Networking & delivery 5/9

Automatic HTTPSTLS endpoints provisioned automatically per workload.
Supported
Built-in reverse proxyPlatform routes external traffic to workload services.
Supported
Custom domainsBring-your-own domain via CNAME/DNS.
Supported
Public preview URLsShareable per-deploy / per-branch URLs.
Supported
Direct public IPv6Per-instance stable public IPv6 for raw TCP/UDP (beyond a managed HTTPS proxy) — e.g. mosh / raw sockets.
Not supported
Egress controlsConfigurable OUTBOUND network policy — egress firewall / allowlist / egress proxy on traffic LEAVING a workload. Scoped to OUTBOUND only (v15): private-network REACHABILITY between a user's own services is private-networking, not this. Static-egress-IP belongs here (an outbound concept).
Partially supported
Private networkingA platform-internal private network between a user's OWN services — service-to-service connectivity, VPC, service mesh, and/or service discovery, not exposed to the public internet. DISTINCT from egress-controls (OUTBOUND firewall/allowlist), reverse-proxy (PUBLIC inbound ingress), and direct-ipv6 (per-instance PUBLIC addressing). Admitted v15.
Supported
Email send / receiveSend and/or receive email from the workload.
Not supported
Edge KV storeA globally-replicated key-value store read from WITHIN an edge runtime at the PoP (low-latency, eventually-consistent) — Cloudflare Workers KV, Deno KV, Fastly KV Store, Akamai EdgeKV, Vercel Edge Config. Distinct from first-party-db (a managed DATABASE service you provision and connect to) and from http-query-api (HTTP access to an external store) — edge-kv is colocated with the edge compute and read at the edge.
Not supported

Developer access 7/10

Public APIDocumented programmatic API.
Supported
OpenAPI specMachine-readable OpenAPI / Swagger spec published.
Supported
CLIOfficial command-line tool.
Supported
SDKOfficial client library/libraries.
Supported
SSH accessDirect SSH into workloads.
Supported
Filesystem APIRemote file operations over the API (list/read/write/watch/copy/upload) without SSH.
Supported
Git deployDeploy from a Git repo / push-to-deploy.
Supported
Private container registryHosted private image registry.
Not supported
E2B-compatible APIDrop-in compatibility with the E2B sandbox API/SDKs — existing E2B client code runs against this product by changing the endpoint/domain + key, with no business-code changes. E2B itself passes as the reference implementation. Distinct from public-api / sdk (the product has its own API — this key says it also speaks another vendor's) and from self-host-oss (a self-hosted E2B-compatible server is scored on both).
Not supported
HTTP data APIQuery / read / write the stored DATA over plain HTTP/REST (or GraphQL) WITHOUT the native protocol driver (Postgres wire / Redis RESP) — agent- and edge-friendly data access via fetch(). The DATA plane; distinct from public-api (a control-plane / management API). Auto-generated-from-schema REST/GraphQL (PostgREST, pg_graphql) is a flavour of this.
Not supported

AI & agents 4/12

Built-in coding agentShips a first-party AI coding agent in the product.
Supported
Agent skillsInstallable / declarable agent skills or tools.
Supported
AI app builderPrompt-to-app / vibe-coding generation surface.
Partially supported
MCP serverExposes a Model Context Protocol server for agents.
Supported
MCP clientActs as an MCP client / consumes MCP tools.
Partially supported
MCP-server hostingRun/host MCP servers as a workload on the platform (distinct from exposing a first-party MCP control server — that is mcp-server).
Supported
LLM gatewayRoutes LLM API calls through the platform (multi-provider).
Not supported
BYOK for LLMsBring-your-own LLM provider keys.
Partially supported
Model inference API (first-party)A FIRST-PARTY hosted LLM/model inference API — the provider serves its OWN catalogue of (usually open-weight) models behind a (typically OpenAI-compatible) endpoint, billed per token. Distinct from llm-gateway (a multi-PROVIDER proxy/router for YOUR calls to external providers like OpenAI/Anthropic) and from byok-llm (bring your own provider keys) — here the platform IS the inference provider, serving its own models.
Not supported
Autonomous QA agentA first-party AUTONOMOUS AI agent that QA-TESTS a running app / implementation — exercising it like a real user (clicking through flows, checking behaviour) and reporting bugs/defects (often back to a coding agent, or before a human review). Distinct from built-in-agent (a code-AUTHORING agent — this one VERIFIES the result, it does not write the feature; a product can ship both), from ai-guided-code-review (organises a diff for a HUMAN to review — not an autonomous tester), and from observability (runtime metrics/logs, not active testing).
Partially supported
Credential-injection proxyThe platform holds real secrets OUTSIDE the workload and injects them on the wire (an egress / broker proxy swaps a placeholder or phantom token for the real credential on matching outbound requests), so code running in the sandbox — e.g. an untrusted agent — never sees or can exfiltrate the real key. Distinct from secrets-management (storage + injection INTO the workload as env vars/files — the workload holds the secret) and from egress-controls (outbound allow/deny POLICY; a product can have an allowlist without injecting credentials, and vice versa).
Not supported
Preinstalled coding agentThe platform installs and launches a THIRD-PARTY coding agent (a harnesses.yml entry — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi ...) inside a workspace/sandbox it provisions, with the agent's auth wired in (your own account or API key), so you start an agent session rather than an empty box. Distinct from built-in-agent (a FIRST-PARTY agent the vendor ships) and from harnesses[] (which records that a harness CAN target the product, not that the product runs it for you).
Partially supported

Data 1/4

First-party databasePlatform-provided managed database.
Supported
Database branchingCopy-on-write branch of a DATABASE (schema + data) as a dev-lifecycle primitive — branch your data like code, usually instant via a metadata operation. Distinct from snapshots-forks (forks a running compute INSTANCE / VM state) and from preview-environments (a full per-PR environment that may USE a DB branch). For a data product a CoW branch maps HERE, not to snapshots-forks.
Not supported
Vector searchFirst-class storage, indexing, and similarity search of vector embeddings — a native vector type/index or a managed vector DB. The data-layer primitive for RAG / semantic retrieval.
Partially supported
Ephemeral instant DB (no-signup)Provision a working, usable instance via a single command / HTTP call with NO account, signup, or card — typically time-boxed (expires unless claimed). A zero-onboarding path an agent can hit directly.
Partially supported

Platform & operations 4/6

Scheduled tasksCron / scheduled job primitive.
Supported
Durable workflowsDurable execution / long-running workflow primitive.
Not supported
Preview environmentsA full EPHEMERAL environment spun up per PR / branch — compute + addons + (often) a DB branch — torn down on merge. More than preview-urls (which is just a shareable URL for one deploy).
Supported
Built-in observabilityFirst-party metrics / logs / tracing / APM / profiling included in the platform (no third-party stack required to see what a workload is doing).
Supported
Managed CI/CD runnersPlatform-hosted, drop-in CI/CD runner VMs (GitHub Actions / GitLab), typically faster and cheaper than the CI vendor's own hosted runners, billed per runner-minute; isolated + ephemeral per job. Distinct from git-deploy (push-to-deploy of an APP) and scheduled-tasks (cron) — this is managed CI COMPUTE you point your existing pipelines at.
Not supported
Project template marketplaceA marketplace / gallery of prebuilt PROJECT STARTER templates (apps or websites) a user clones or launches a new project from and then customises — the "start from a template" surface of a builder / PaaS. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a COMPUTE base IMAGE you fork runtime INSTANCES from — Dockerfile / OCI), from app-builder (the prompt-to-app GENERATION surface — a product can have both), and from one-click OSS-app catalogues / helm-addon-marketplace (deploy a FINISHED app as-is, not a starter you build on).
Supported

Organisation & security 3/9

Built-in authPlatform-provided authentication / IAM for workloads.
Partially supported
SSO / SAMLEnterprise single sign-on.
Partially supported
Secrets managementFirst-class secrets storage / injection.
Supported
TeamsMulti-user team accounts.
Supported
SharingShare a running workload/resource via link (optionally gated).
Supported
BYOCRuns inside the customer's own cloud account.
Partially supported
Deploy into customers' VPCsA SaaS vendor uses the platform to deploy and operate ITS software inside ITS CUSTOMERS' cloud accounts / VPCs (nested or "customer BYOC"), managed from the vendor's control plane. Distinct from byoc (your own workloads in your own cloud account).
Not supported
Workload identityThe platform gives each workload its own verifiable identity (OIDC token, SPIFFE SVID, cloud IAM federation) that it exchanges for short-lived credentials, so no long-lived static secret is stored or injected. Distinct from secrets-management (stores / injects static secrets) and credential-injection-proxy (swaps real secrets in on the wire).
Not supported
Self-host / OSS coreOpen-source core that can be self-hosted.
Not supported

Proposed, not verified

Capabilities the scan saw but the registry does not track yet. A key is admitted only once two distinct products exhibit it. These are not scored.

  • VMs, no sign upanonymous-instant-vm

    “Run one command and get a Linux VM on Railway, with no account and no card:” railway.com

  • Feature Flagsfeature-flags

    “Feature flags are a typed configuration registry scoped to a project. Each flag has a default value and optional targeting rules evaluated at read time.” docs.railway.com

05 Agent readiness Pre-login surface · counts, not a grade

Can an agent read it?

parse-ability · docs, metadata, machine-readable surfaces

11/11

9 full · 2 partial · 100% of applicable checks

  • llms.txt
    Supported
  • llms-full.txt
    Partially supported
  • robots.txt AI policy
    Supported
  • JSON-LD
    Supported
  • Sitemap
    Supported
  • Meta tags
    Supported
  • Markdown negotiation
    Supported
  • Content efficiency
    Partially supported
  • Docs discoverable
    Supported
  • Machine-readable pricing
    Supported
  • No anti-bot wall
    Supported

Can an agent drive it?

act-ability · APIs, SDKs, MCP, credentials, webhooks

11/11

9 full · 2 partial · 100% of applicable checks

  • Public API
    Supported
  • OpenAPI spec
    Supported
  • MCP server
    Supported
  • SDK packages
    Supported
  • Auth documented
    Supported
  • Self-serve credentials
    Partially supported
  • Webhooks
    Partially supported
  • CLI tool
    Supported
  • Error model
    Supported
  • Rate limits documented
    Supported
  • Agent config files
    Supported

06 Coding harnesses Which agents and IDEs are documented to run here

Advertised integrations 9

  • Claude Code Anthropic
    Supported
  • Codex CLI OpenAI
    Supported
  • Cursor Anysphere
    Supported
  • OpenCode opencode
    Supported
  • GitHub Copilot GitHub
    Supported
  • Pi earendil-works
    Supported
  • Devin Cognition
    Supported
  • Droid Factory
    Supported
  • Antigravity Google
    Supported

Plausible compatibility 8

Derived, not stored: the product passes SSH access, so any CLI coding agent is installable inside it. This is plausible compatibility, not a supported integration.

  • Aider
  • Amp
  • Gemini CLI
  • Goose
  • Hermes Agent
  • Kilo Code
  • Kiro CLI
  • Qwen Code

07 Compliance & regions Standards held, with ordinal rigor; never a score

Certifications held 4

  • SOC 2 Type II
    certifiedhosted
  • HIPAA
    self-attestedhosted$1,000 committed spend tier; BAA/shared responsibility, not general third-party HIPAA certification.
  • SOC 3
    certifiedhosted
  • GDPR
    self-attestedhosted

Regions 4

  • California, USAUS West Metal
  • Virginia, USAUS East Metal
  • Amsterdam, NetherlandsEU West Metal
  • SingaporeSoutheast Asia Metal

Region IDs us-west2, us-east4-eqdc4a, europe-west4-drams3a, asia-southeast1-eqsg3a. Sandbox fresh default US West regardless of account preference; forks/checkpoints/templates stay with source snapshot region. CDN São Paulo PoP is not another workload deployment region.

Legal

Privacy noticeTerms of service

08 Company & presence Facts only, not scored

Company

Headquarters
Remote distributed team; legal/contact address 548 Market St PMB68956, San Francisco, California94104, USA
Founded
2020
Team size
45 named people visible on current about page; remote team
Hiring
Hiring;19 listed remote openings across Infrastructure, Product, Logistics, Design

Activity

Last release
2026-10-09 — Railway.com is now just Railway on iOS, Railway Authentication, OpenRouter Support railway.com
Last blog post
2026-10-08 — Introducing Railway Authentication via identity-aware proxy blog.railway.com

Presence 6

Links found on the public surface scanned; not an exhaustive search.

09 Sources & method How this entry was produced

Public surface only

Everything here was read from railway.com's unauthenticated pages, docs, pricing and repository on 15 Oct 2026. Nothing behind a login was used.

Statuses, not scores

Capabilities are pass, partial or fail against a written rubric (features v21). “Not assessed” means the scan predates the key.

Confidence is separate

Each fact carries its own confidence. Low-confidence facts are shown, never hidden, so you can weigh them.

Schema
scan v5
Features registry
v21
Keys tracked today
61
Assessed on this entry
61
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