Railway Has Free App Deployment — Here's Why Developers Are Choosing It Over Heroku

Heroku killed its free tier. Railway gives you $5/month free — enough to run a hobby project 24/7. What is Railway? Railway is a cloud platform that deploys your apps from a Git repo. Push code, Railway builds and deploys. Add databases with one click. Free Tier $5 free credit/month 512 MB RAM Shared vCPU 1 GB disk Execution time-based billing Quick Start # Install CLI npm install -g @railway/cli # Login railway login # Initialize project railway init # Deploy railway up Or connect a GitHub repo — Railway auto-deploys on every push. Add a Database (One Click) # PostgreSQL railway add --plugin postgresql # Redis railway add --plugin redis # MySQL railway add --plugin mysql # MongoDB railway add --plugin mongodb Railway automatically sets DATABASE_URL in your environment. Deploy Any Framework Railway auto-detects your framework: # Node.js / Express / Fastify # Just push — Railway reads package.json # Python / Django / Flask # Railway reads requirements.txt or Pipfile # Go # Railway detec