Our take
Pick Coder if platform teams who will stay on Community $0 (unlimited self-hosted workspaces, 5 agents, GitHub/Discord support) while they Create workspace from a first template, then talk to sales for Premium when they need HA, workspace proxies, multi-org RBAC, and SLA support. Pick Railway if app teams who will stay on Free $0 during the 30-day $5-credit trial (then $1/month, 1 project, 3 services) while they
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Coder Workspaces you start at $0
Railway A service you start at $0 / $1
Free plan
Coder $0 · (“Free”). Open source. Unlimited self-hosted workspaces on infrastructure you own. Environments as code. Run Claude Code / Codex / Cursor inside ephemeral workspaces. VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Jupyter. Includes AI Governance. Community support on GitHub and Discord. FAQ: 5-agent cap on Community and Premium
Railway No free plan
Lowest paid
Coder Not published by the vendor
Railway Usage (services) $0.00000386
Next step up
Coder
Railway Sandboxes $0.00001929
Coding agent
Coder Agents
Railway Sandboxes
Runs where
Coder Local or hosted
Railway Local; you host it
Watch out
Coder Community is $0 and a 5-agent cap
Railway Free becomes $1/month after the 30-day $5-credit trial
Last checked
Coder 2026-10-22 · coder.com/pricing
Railway 2026-10-22 · railway.com/pricing
platform teams who will stay on Community $0 (unlimited self-hosted workspaces, 5 agents, GitHub/Discord support) while they Create workspace from a first template, then talk to sales for Premium when they need HA, workspace proxies, multi-org RBAC, and SLA support.
Read the Coder pageapp teams who will stay on Free $0 during the 30-day $5-credit trial (then $1/month, 1 project, 3 services) while they ship a first GitHub service, then land on Hobby at $5 minimum / month when they need 50 projects and 48 vCPU — or Pro at $20 minimum when they need 100 projects and 30-day logs.
Read the Railway page