Railway Postgres pricing
Alternative. Maturity: Established (12 months or more). Replaces Heroku Postgres, Neon, Supabase. Last checked 2026-10-21.
Visitors who say they use Railway Postgres: none yet. Self-reported, anonymous, and never used for order.
| plan | from $/mo | billed | source | checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $5 | gb | pricing page | 2026-10-21 |
| Pro | $20 | gb | pricing page | 2026-10-21 |
Hobby: $5 minimum usage for a single developer workspace, up to 5 GB of storage. Billed on use: a Postgres service holding 1 GB of memory around the clock for a 30-day month is $10.01 ($0.00000386 per GB-second), an average of 0.05 vCPU is $1.00 ($0.00000772 per vCPU-second) and storage is $0.15552 per GB-month ($0.00000006 per GB-second). The memory and CPU figures are an estimate of a database this size, not published prices. Worked out as the larger of $5 and $11.01 + $0.15552 for each GB.
Pro: $20 minimum usage with unlimited workspace seats, up to 1 TB of storage. The same estimated usage as Hobby ($11.01 plus storage at $0.15552 per GB-month), floored at $20.
features recorded
| feature | status | from plan | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic backups | yes | Hobby | Built-in database and volume backups. |
| Connection pooling | yes | Hobby | The docs describe adding connection pooling in front of the database. |
| Postgres extensions (such as pgvector) | not stated | - | |
| Point-in-time restore | yes | Hobby | The docs describe point-in-time recovery for a high availability Postgres; plan not checked. |
| High availability (automatic failover) | yes | Hobby | A Postgres service can be converted to high availability with automatic failover; the extra nodes are billed as usage. |
| Database branches | partial | Hobby | Preview environments copy a project, including its services; not a database branch. |
| Read replicas | not stated | - | |
| Sign-in and file storage from the same vendor | not stated | - |
limits and caveats
| limit | what the vendor says | source | checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| usage-estimate | The bill depends on what the database uses (memory and CPU by the second); the cost shown assumes 1 GB of memory around the clock and 0.05 vCPU on average | source | 2026-10-21 |
| hobby | Hobby is a single developer workspace with up to 5 GB of storage; Pro has unlimited seats and up to 1 TB | source | 2026-10-21 |
compare
- +Heroku Postgres alternatives: how Railway Postgres compares.
- +Neon alternatives: how Railway Postgres compares.
- +Supabase alternatives: how Railway Postgres compares.
- +All database tools, including DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL, Fly.io Managed Postgres, Heroku Postgres, Neon, PlanetScale.
switches
Reported switches to Railway Postgres from other listed tools: none yet. Self-reported by visitors, shown as a raw count, and never used for ranking.
What people said they gave up (read first, one person's view each):
proof signals
- +Pricing page states a 99.99% availability target on Pro
- +Deploys any open-source database as a service
details
- website
- railway.com
- hosting
- managed
- open source
- no