Our take
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 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. Pick Sevalla if small teams who will put a static site on Free ($0, 1 GB / 100 GB bandwidth / 600 build
Best for
Railway A service you start at $0 / $1
Sevalla Apps and data you start on a printed $ tile
Free plan
Railway No free plan
Sevalla No free plan
Lowest paid
Railway Usage (services) $0.00000386
Sevalla Object storage $0.02
Next step up
Railway Sandboxes $0.00001929
Sevalla
Coding agent
Railway Sandboxes
Sevalla
Runs where
Railway Local; you host it
Sevalla Hosted
Watch out
Railway Free becomes $1/month after the 30-day $5-credit trial
Sevalla $5 is the floor, not a forever-free app
Last checked
Railway 2026-10-22 · railway.com/pricing
Sevalla 2026-10-23 · sevalla.com/pricing
app 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 pagesmall teams who will put a static site on Free ($0, 1 GB / 100 GB bandwidth / 600 build minutes), then pay $5/month for a first application or managed database — and will not treat the MCP server as a second product.
Read the Sevalla page