# Railway

Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.


Source: https://www.findhost.app/railway/
Last checked against the provider: 2026-08-12

## Record

### Links

- home: https://railway.com
- pricing: https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/plans
- status: https://status.railway.com

### Identity

- founded: unknown
- headcount: unknown
- favorite: yes
- ownership: unknown
- parent: unknown
- status: active

### Classification

- category: paas
- whoManagesOs: managed
- infraContract: unknown
- runsOn: unknown
- cdnFrom: unknown
- useCases: side-project
- audience: solo, enterprise
- wikidata: unknown

### Tech stack

- runtimes: node, python, go, php, java, ruby, docker
- software: unknown
- specialisation: unknown
- sshAccess: unknown
- managedDatabases: postgres, mysql, mongodb, redis
- gpuCapacity: unknown
- persistentStorage: unknown
- backupsIncluded: unknown

### Deployment

- deployMethods: git

### Pricing

- pricingModel: usage-based
- priceFrom: sm
- entryPrice: unknown
- priceTo: lg
- currencies: USD
- billingPeriods: monthly
- billingTiming: arrears
- exitWithin: a-month
- renewalMultiple: unknown
- freeTier: permanent
- contractMinimum: unknown

### Regions and law

- regions: US, NL, SG
- hqCountry: unknown
- gdprDpa: unknown

### Other features

- energyClaim: unknown
- certifications: unknown
- greenWebId: unknown
- domainRegistration: unknown
- dnsHosting: unknown
- emailHosting: unknown
- cdnIncluded: unknown
- testDomain: unknown
- collaboration: team
- staging: included

### Support

- supportChannels: forum
- supportHours: unknown
- supportTiering: paid-upgrade

### Automation

- mcpServer: official
- cliTool: official
- apiAvailable: public
- iacSupport: unknown

### Sources

- pricingModel: https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/plans (read 2026-07-31)
- staging: https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/plans (read 2026-08-12)
- collaboration: https://docs.railway.com/reference/teams (read 2026-08-12)
- priceFrom: https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/plans (read 2026-08-02)
- priceTo: https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/plans (read 2026-08-02)
- currencies: https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/plans (read 2026-08-02)
- billingPeriods: https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/plans (read 2026-08-02)
- billingTiming: https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/plans (read 2026-08-02)
- exitWithin: https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/faqs (read 2026-08-02)
- freeTier: https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/plans (read 2026-07-31)
- regions: https://docs.railway.com/reference/regions (read 2026-07-31)
- managedDatabases: https://docs.railway.com/reference/databases (read 2026-07-31)
- runtimes: https://railpack.com/ (read 2026-07-31)
- deployMethods: https://docs.railway.com/guides/cli (read 2026-07-31)
- cliTool: https://docs.railway.com/guides/cli (read 2026-07-31)
- apiAvailable: https://docs.railway.com/guides/cli (read 2026-07-31)
- audience: https://railway.com/pricing (read 2026-07-31)
- useCases: https://railway.com/pricing (read 2026-07-31)
- mcpServer: https://docs.railway.com/guides/cli (read 2026-07-31)
- supportChannels: https://docs.railway.com/reference/support (read 2026-07-31)
- supportTiering: https://docs.railway.com/reference/support (read 2026-07-31)

## Notes

Railway is a language-agnostic deployment platform. Builds run through Railpack, its own build system, which detects Node.js, Python, Go, PHP, Java and Ruby without configuration and can be steered with environment variables or a config file; a Dockerfile can be supplied instead. Databases are provisioned from first-party templates for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and Redis.

Deployment is from a connected git repository or through the official command-line tool. The same tool reaches a GraphQL API, and an `mcp install` command wires Railway access into MCP-compatible AI tooling. Regions are available in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Billing pairs a monthly subscription with metered usage. Each plan carries an allowance of resource consumption and anything above it is charged on top, so the subscription figure is a floor rather than the bill: what the platform costs depends on the compute, memory, bandwidth and database time an application uses.

## Worth knowing

Support is tiered by plan. The free and entry plans are answered through a community forum with no guaranteed response; a stated turnaround appears on higher paid plans, and a contractual response time only at the top of the range. The plan carrying that commitment sits several tiers above the free entry point.

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