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Heroku vs Railway

Railway is frequently positioned by Railway itself and third parties as a modern replacement for Heroku's discontinued free tier and PaaS model.

Partial replacementRelationship source ↗Verified September 25, 2026
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Heroku

Salesforce

A cloud application platform for deploying and operating software.

Categories
Hosting
Published pricing
Pricing not published
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Not rated yet
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0

Current official plans

No published plan data yet.

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Railway

Railway Corporation

Infrastructure platform for deploying, hosting, and scaling applications and databases, billed on a per-second usage basis.

Categories
Hosting
Published pricing
Free plan available
Community rating
Not rated yet
Member stacks
0

Current official plans

TrialFree

30-day trial with $5 of one-time usage credit; no ongoing free plan. After trial, usage billed per-second: memory $0.00000386/GB-sec, CPU $0.00000772/vCPU-sec, volumes $0.00000006/GB-sec, egress $0.05/GB.

Plan verified September 25, 2026 · Vendor source ↗

HobbyFrom $5/mo

$5/month minimum spend, which includes $5 of usage credits; single-developer workspace. Additional usage billed per-second at published rates (see Trial notes).

Plan verified September 25, 2026 · Vendor source ↗

ProFrom $20/mo

$20/month minimum spend, including $20 of usage credits; unlimited workspace seats. Additional usage billed per-second at published resource rates.

Plan verified September 25, 2026 · Vendor source ↗

EnterpriseContact sales

Custom tiered commitments reported from roughly $1,000 to $10,000+/month; includes SSO, RBAC, SLOs, dedicated support.

Plan verified September 25, 2026 · Vendor source ↗

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