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Every service on Railway follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model where you pay for the resources you use. These resources include: vCPU, RAM, DISK, and Egress

Databases on Railway are really just preconfigured services set to deploy databases, so they follow the same pricing model as all services on Railway do

To answer your questions:

> Does it cost any more to use Postgresql?
Aside from the base resource cost, Railway doesn't charge extra for databases

> Is there a minimum monthly cost?
There isn't really a minimum cost to any specific service, the closest to a minimum cost is its idle-resource usage. My idle Postgres database costs me about 0.4 usd a month, so that's the closest to a minimum cost I can give

> Is there a usage cost? If so, what kinds of usage?
The before mentioned resources apply here (vCPU, RAM, DISK, and Egress). You can find how Railway charges for these resources on the [pricing page]()

Railway's pricing calculator actually includes a Postgres example which gives a rough idea of what costs you're looking at

-# The database in the example isn't storing anything, Railway charges 0.25 usd per GB stored

Wow that's great, thank you. It did take me a bit to find this even when I went to that page! I think the messaging about costs and what's included is a really valuable selling point that seems hidden. Thing is, with so many services out there, I got mixed up and thought for some reason Railway charged a fixed $40/mo for Postgres but it clearly must be another dark purple on black cloud provider 🙂

Funny that "a growing server" is in the same ballpark as monthly privilege of having a just NAT translator component in AWS 🙂

Happy I can help, yea 40 usd would be insane 🤣
Is there anything about the UI that gave you that impression or was it just a mix up?

if you search for "railway postgresql pricing" you'll not get any answers anywhere. I think that'd be a very simple job of having a page per service included with simply the words "IT"S FREE YAY" "NO EXTRA CHARGE OVER USAGE" or something

oh yea I see what you mean, I just googled and scrolled down a little and found this

getdeploying is a PITA I think

🤣 oh yea definitely

Do you have any other questions? 🙂

no that's it thanks you can mark this as answered!

somehow

Will do, thank you, have an awesome day

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