did you just deploy this service?

the 3 html sites and the one other one

if you just deployed it a few minutes ago, the estimated usage can take a bit to more accurately reflect how much resources your services will accurately use

Yes, I just set up everything this morning and was planning on moving my lst project over until I saw this..

now at $10.75...

yeah, I would let it sit for a few days so the estimation can see how your app's usage actually performs

for example, I setup a new postgres database a bit ago and the estimated usage was $8 right after I deployed it, but after I let it sit for a few days the estimation went down to $4

Should I add my last project over from Vercel now or wait a few days first?

This is my current cost by service:

1. Website that presents the database
2. database 3-5. basic html sites

can you send me a screenshot of the metrics tab in one of those html services? those numbers do seem a little high

okay that doesn't look horrible

yeah it looks normal

that was the second from bottom site

This is the top one.. the site connected to the databse (second line)

yeah that looks fine as well

memory may be a bit high but I don't know your stack so it'll probably be okay

How come memory is so high?

well I don't know anything about your stack so it could really vary

Sorry - I am new to all of this and been mainly vibe coding... 😄

you're good

How can I explain my stack without exposing anything?

try asking your agent on ways to reduce memory usage

like what programming language or framework you're using

Does Railway have a built in agent to ask or you mean like ask Claude? 😄

yes (in the top right of the dashboard) but I don't know how efficient it'll be with this since I don't know how much it knows about your actual code

Asking Claude how I can reduce memory per project

👍

Im on the $5 plan, and I dont plan on upgrading for awhile, but seeing the expectations was throwing me off...

top one after having agent reduce memory

yooooo

awesome sauce

got it down to $3.90 at one point, dont know why it went back up a bit, but good drop!

hooray

If you're super concerned about cost, use nginx to serve your basic HTML sites and it'll essentially be free (but either way they are $1 each given these metrics) <:shrugepepe:1464735474328535328>

More details would be necessary to give suggestions on this, but it looks like Claude did a pretty great job already <:thumbs:1235596472112644288>

Thank you thank you - I’ll be upgrading to the $20 plan once I get my main project off the ground

going up now without me doing anything..

The numbers shown in the breakdown are GB minutes, not just GB. (The AI is wrong).

As for the cost, you accumulated ~$0.06 over 4 hours which is ~$10.80/mo, however that includes before you reduced memory from ~900MB to ~40MB so no doubt it would be much less, according to railways pricing thats a roughly $8.60/mo decrease in cost. I would estimate your final bill considering everything to be roughly the cost covered by the hobby plan (don't take my word for that), its always good to wait a couple days and see what changes, it takes a little while for the estimate to adjust.

If you scroll up and show the total resources used by your services I could give you a better estimate.

Thank you. I'll keep yall updated in the next 24-48 hr

Currently adding my big new project to Railway too..

Yeah, thats what I was thinking, just under the cost covered by the hobby plan.

i also lowered the allocations per project

but im about to add my major project

omg that first one is crazy

Why is that top one memory going up like crazy?! It has nothing really to it...

If your vibe coding id hook your agent up with the railway skills and ask the agent how to optimize cost- it should be able to fetch all the info it would need.

Without knowing more about the stack of the service and having more deets it'll be hard to give any useful tips.

Railway just bills on usage 🙂

Have a good prompt to set up railway skills?

Check this out

https://docs.railway.com/ai/agent-skills#what-are-agent-skills

Should explain everything for most harnesses

I followed the steps to insteall it on claude code, but now its glitching my entire claude code

this constantly happens and wont let me type properly anymore on the terminal

I don't think the skills would have caused that. All they are are markdown files that get dropped into your skills folder

asked claude web to somehow remove it and it worked, got the skill to work and reduced some memory i think, we'll see in a few

I have found turning on sleep mode works well too

Oh yeah app sleeping? Definitely helps if your service has busy / quiet times

Yeah... but still.. when it's awake, she hungry and idek why

I mean the usage seems pretty normal to me but I don't know anything about your workload so can't speak confidently about it

Stack summary:

┌───────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐

│ Layer │ Technology │

├───────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤

│ Runtime │ Node.js │

├───────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤

│ Language │ TypeScript (strict) │

├───────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤

│ Framework │ Next.js 14.1.0 (React 18) │

├───────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤

│ Database │ MongoDB Atlas via Mongoose 8 │

├───────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤

│ Styling │ Tailwind CSS │

├───────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤

│ Charts │ Chart.js + react-chartjs-2 │

├───────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤

│ Date utilities │ date-fns-tz, Luxon │

├───────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤

│ Deployment output │ Next.js standalone mode │

├───────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤

│ Builder │ Nixpacks │

└───────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘

Key details relevant to memory:

• Deployed on Railway with standalone Next.js output
• MongoDB connection is pooled/cached for serverless-style reuse
• Several recent commits specifically targeting memory optimization (heap cap, connection pool limits, payload limits, history loading)
• Uses html-to-image for image exports (can be memory-intensive)

Yeah this is pretty normal for a next.js app- I'd say your usage is even low.

Next.js standalone mode is notorious for being a little memory hungry

is there a different stack or language or whatever you'd recommend?

MongoDB is hosted in Railway - not atlas