2 months ago
Hi Railway Support,
I am confused about my pricing.
Your starter looks like $5, so I expected a small bill for a tiny test service. But even with low resources and basically no traffic, my estimate is close to $30 per month.
This is around 1 vCPU and about 1 GB RAM. Sometimes it peaks to 2 to 3 GB. It is only a test for a graph or knowledge base.
Other providers are closer to $5 to $10 for similar or higher specs, so I do not understand what is causing this.
Can you explain what exactly is being charged and what I can change to keep this in the $5 to $10 range?
30$ per month can have 16gb ram / 300gb hardrive lol
Thanks,
Bobby
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2 months ago
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2 months ago
You can go to your Workspace settings > Usage then you can see usages by project and by service.
Also, Railway's pricing page explicitly states that users will be charged for the minimum amount of the plan ($5 for Hobby, $20 for Pro), and on top of that, they will be charged for any additional resource usages.
It's possible that you were using the public URL, which could cost you a lot in egress fees, but I'd check the usage table in your Workspace settings.
a month ago
It's still over $30 a month for 1 CPU and 2GB RAM. Isn't that a scam for low usage?
a month ago
Billing History
January 28, 2026
Usage-based subscription
$ 27.79
December 28, 2025
Usage-based subscription
$ 17.84
November 28, 2025
Usage-based subscription
$ 5.00
a month ago
As mentioned above, you can go to your Workspace settings -> usage to view resource costs by project and service.
bobby38
It's still over $30 a month for 1 CPU and 2GB RAM. Isn't that a scam for low usage?
a month ago
On the pricing page, it clearly states that:
$0.00000386 per GB / sec
$0.00000772 per vCPU / sec
That’s $10/GB RAM/month and $20/vCPU/month.
If you used 1 vCPU and 2 GB RAM for a month straight, that’ll cost you $30. That’s excluding other resources such as storage and egress.
bobby38
Billing HistoryJanuary 28, 2026Usage-based subscription$ 27.79December 28, 2025Usage-based subscription$ 17.84November 28, 2025Usage-based subscription$ 5.00
a month ago
as mentioned, go to your workspace -> usage then check what eats up your $, mind screenshotting this part?
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