Koyeb vs Railway — free-tier comparison
This comparison is calculated from verified service fields. It is not presented as an editorial review and remains excluded from the index until reviewed.
At a glance
Koyeb: Cheapest paid plan · Railway: Most regions
PaaS
One free web service with 512 MB RAM, 0.1 vCPU and 2 GB SSD; free PostgreSQL is limited to 5 active hours and 1 GB storage
Paid from $1.61/month
- One free web service per organization
- 512 MB RAM, 0.1 vCPU and 2 GB SSD
- Free instance in Frankfurt or Washington, D.C.
- Free web instance is explicit and not billed when kept on the free instance type
- GitHub, Docker, buildpack and CLI deployment paths
- Free web services scale to zero after one hour without traffic
Best for
- Small APIs, demos and hobby apps that can tolerate sleep
- Flask, Django, Go, Node.js and Docker apps deployed from GitHub
PaaS
30-day trial with $5 credit, then $1 monthly usage credit on Free
Paid from $5/month
- $5 trial credit
- 30-day free trial
- $1 monthly usage credit after trial
- Provisions Postgres, MySQL and Redis in a click
- Deploy from Git, a template or a Dockerfile
- The ongoing Free plan includes only $1 of monthly resource usage
Best for
- Full-stack apps and APIs that need a database
- Background workers and cron-style jobs
The catch?
Koyeb
- Scales to zero when idle
- Credit card required
- Some constraints remain unconfirmed
Railway
- Credit-based allowance
- Suspends at the limit
- Some constraints remain unconfirmed
Detailed comparison
| Koyeb | Railway | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier & pricing | ||
| Free tier ↑ better | Perpetual (sleeps) ★ | Monthly credit ★ |
| Paid from ↓ better | $1.61/mo ★ | $5/mo |
| Regions ↑ better | 2 free regions | 4 regions ★ |
| PaaS | ||
| Included RAM ↑ better | 512 MB ★ | 512 MB ★ |
| Compute hours ↑ better | — | Credit-based |
FAQ
Koyeb documents one free web service per organization with 512 MB RAM, 0.1 vCPU and 2 GB SSD, plus a free PostgreSQL database limited to 5 active hours and 1 GB storage.
Yes. Free instances scale down to zero when they receive no traffic for one hour, so the next request can be cold.
Railway starts with a 30-day trial and $5 credit. After that, the $0 Free plan includes $1 of resource usage each month; Hobby starts at $5 per month.
Yes. Postgres, MySQL, Redis and MongoDB can be provisioned as plugins right next to your app.