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 SST if sST/AWS teams who will stay on the free tier (≤350 active resources, no card) while they open
Best for
Railway A service you start at $0 / $1
SST Logs and deploys you start at $0
Free plan
Railway No free plan
SST $0 · no card to start. Personal stages remain accessible if you go over
Lowest paid
Railway Usage (services) $0.00000386
SST Old invocation pricing $0.00002
Next step up
Railway Sandboxes $0.00001929
SST Paid $0.086
Coding agent
Railway Sandboxes
SST
Runs where
Railway Local; you host it
SST Hosted
Watch out
Railway Free becomes $1/month after the 30-day $5-credit trial
SST AWS only
Last checked
Railway 2026-10-22 · railway.com/pricing
SST 2026-10-23 · sst.dev/docs/console
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 pagesST/AWS teams who will stay on the free tier (≤350 active resources, no card) while they open a first Console overview, then pay $0.086 per active resource / month when a workspace stays over 350.
Read the SST page