Railway

Deploy anything from a repo — servers, DBs, crons — in minutes

railway.com · Usage-based, ~$5/mo minimum

Railway deploys containers straight from GitHub with zero devops: web services, Postgres, Redis, cron jobs, all wired together in a visual canvas. The fastest path from repo to running backend.

Capabilities

Capabilities

  • Deploy from repo or Dockerfile; managed Postgres/MySQL/Redis one click away
  • Usage-based pricing: pay for CPU/RAM you actually consume; $5/mo minimum
  • Great DX: env management, preview environments, instant logs

Best for

  • Solo devs who want a backend + database running TODAY without infra knowledge
  • Side projects that outgrew serverless but do not need multi-region

Not for

  • $0 hobby budgets (minimum $5/mo) or edge-latency-critical apps