Railway Has a Free Trial — Deploy Backend Apps With Zero Config

Heroku Died. Railway Picked Up the Torch. Heroku removed the free tier. Render has cold starts. Fly.io requires Docker knowledge. Railway: The New Heroku Railway deploys backend apps from your GitHub repo. Database included. No Docker required. Free Trial $5 credit (lasts ~2 weeks for small apps) No credit card for trial Auto-deploy from GitHub PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB — one click Deploy From GitHub Connect GitHub repo Railway detects framework Click Deploy Get a URL That is it. No Dockerfile, no nixpacks config (unless you want one). One-Click Databases Railway Dashboard → New → Database → PostgreSQL Connection string automatically injected as DATABASE_URL environment variable. Railway vs Fly.io vs Render Feature Railway Fly.io Render Free tier $5 trial 3 VMs 1 service Database One-click One-click One-click Docker required No Optional No UI Excellent Good Good Monorepo Yes Manual Manual Cron Built-in No Built-in Why Developers Choose Railway Best UI of any deployment platform