Can i know the pricing and everything

[green iris]

its very confusing what are the plans and everything?

[buoyant marten]

Railway have a pay as you go pricing model, that means it depends on how much resources your project will use.

Read more: https://help.railway.app/pricing-and-plans/mMgP2q2vdPQpZQCJExshau

https://railway.app/pricing

The free tier has $5 credit for free each month, if it exceeds that it will shutdown, if you are on the developer plan you will only be charged above $5 (for example if your app estimated at $10 you will pay $5)

[loud delta]

@green iris do you have anymore questions?

[deep harness]

How can I know how many resources will consume a starting project? How can I prevent to spend a lot of money?

[tranquil slate]

I have to say, I found the same. I just had to try it to see. I didn't know if Railway's different pricing paradigm would be less than, equal to or greater than something like a raw AWS setup.

With all the services and environments we run on Railway, I feel like Railway is a fraction of the cost of AWS (for now (probably shouldn't be telling you 😂))

^ I don't work for Railway btw, just a happy user 🙂

[tranquil slate]

and further, I find Railway to be a fraction of the cost for a significantly larger architecture footprint. ie. I have ~10 Pull Request environments set up (that is essentially a full production environment with databases, cache servers, app servers, replicated TEN times), staging, production. So really that in AWS would be 10-50x the cost of what i'm paying with Railway

[tawny rose]

Once you deploy you can see an estimate of the monthly cost of your app.

There is curently no way to limit your spending on the developer plan but they’ve said there we’ll be eventually

[rough plank]

I find myself really lost about pricing prediction/simulation/estimation reading Railway's website. That's not reasonable having to deploy in order to know the costs... It should really have some kind of calculator/simulator...

[zinc rampart]

This page has all the pricing info you need. https://railway.app/pricing

An estimator at the bottom for a few different types of apps, as well as a calculator if you click on the resource based option

as for a simulator, an estimated costs figure is generated after your project is hosted on railway. Without knowing the specific activity of your project on railway it’s impossible to estimate how much the project may cost

[rough plank]

That is really helpful! Thanks!! Didn't see that. I'm gonna need to use a few nodejs (express) microservices, mongodb and a nextjs app

[devout lance]

there is a option to set prepay subscription so each month only a fixed amount gets charged. i setup as example 5$ for the start

[zinc rampart]

No, that’s not an option. What you did was purchase 5$ in credits. That’s a one-time purchase