6 months ago
Hello Railway Team,
I’ve noticed that my monthly costs are growing even though my project usage (CPU, RAM, and network egress) looks fairly stable. Here are the details from my dashboard:
Project: cheerful-expression
Current cost: $15.09 (Estimated: $15.62)
Breakdown:
Memory: $15.02
CPU: $0.0176
Egress: $0.0468
Billing history:
June 4, 2025: $5.00
July 4, 2025: $1.29
August 4, 2025: $10.39
As you can see, the cost is rising month to month. Could you please clarify why memory charges are increasing, and whether my configuration is causing this growth?
Thanks in advance
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6 months ago
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6 months ago
Hello,
The increased costs are due to your application's previous high memory usage.
You can see this by visiting your service metrics: https://railway.com/project/e55510db-d9d9-4f70-9aef-222eb376fa4c/service/d02cb27f-7d1e-4d91-8b86-de1dfca0ab7f/metrics?environmentId=3854f57d-f61c-4619-b984-b1fd75457563
Switch the timeframe to 30 days and you'll see your application was using approximately 2GB of RAM. If you switch back to the 1-hour timeframe, you can see it now uses a more reasonable ~500MB of RAM.
Railway charges are proportional to resource usage, so when your application consumed more memory, your costs increased accordingly. We don't have visibility into what causes applications to use more or less memory, as that depends on your specific code and how it allocates resources.
Best,
Brody
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6 months ago
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