# Railway

> Deploy web apps, databases, and servers without cloud complexity

**Website:** https://railway.com/
**Pricing:** Free tier - Usage-based paid plans
**Categories:** DevTools

## Overview

Railway is a full-stack cloud platform for deploying web applications, servers, and databases, built for development teams that want infrastructure handled automatically. It connects to your repo, auto-configures your stack, and manages networking, SSL, scaling, and monitoring out of the box. Used by 2M+ developers, it competes with providers like AWS and Heroku. Pricing is usage-based; a free tier exists.

Configuring cloud infrastructure typically consumes engineering time that should go toward building product. Railway eliminates that overhead by reading your code and applying correct settings automatically, providing 100 Gbps private networking with no VPC setup, one-click horizontal scaling with global deployment, and unified logs, metrics, and alerts in a single dashboard -- so teams ship faster without managing infrastructure tooling.

## Key points

- Auto-configures deployments from your repo with instant preview environments per pull request
- Private 100 Gbps internal networking with automatic SSL, load balancing, and protocol detection
- Unified observability: logs, metrics, custom dashboards, and Slack/Discord/email alerts in one place

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