Railway

DB 5.3/10

$5/mo Hobby includes $5 of resource usage; deploy Postgres/Redis/Mongo plus app services. Usage-based compute/RAM/volumes beyond credit.

Railway scores 5.3/10 for free value in DB. The main constraint: Paid — $5/mo (Hobby, includes $5 usage). $5/mo Hobby includes $5 of resource usage; deploy Postgres/Redis/Mongo plus app services. Usage-based compute/RAM/volumes beyond credit.

Category DB Kind Paid plan

Free value score

5.3 / 10

Show the math

Overall 5.3/10

value = 5.3/100

weighted_components_v1

Capacity 2.4/10

value = 5 $ one-time

fixed_log_v1

Operations 8.2/10

value = 8.2/100

policy_score_v1

Production fit 8/10

value = 8/100

policy_score_v1

Key metrics

0.001 GB Storage policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable included storage allowance is published in this item.

1 reads/mo Reads policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable monthly read allowance is published in this item.

1 writes/mo Writes policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable monthly write allowance is published in this item.

$5/mo

$5 usage

What you get

Paid — $5/mo (Hobby, includes $5 usage). $5/mo Hobby includes $5 of resource usage; deploy Postgres/Redis/Mongo plus app services. Usage-based compute/RAM/volumes beyond credit.

First $5 of DB compute effectively free; pay-per-use after — strong for tiny always-on DBs, best DX for shipping a DB next to your app

Sources

"Your Hobby plan subscription includes $5 of usage per month. If your total usage at the end of your billing period is $5 or less, you will not be charged extra"
https://railway.com/pricing
"Hobby starts at $5/month and Pro starts at $20/month. CPU, memory, volumes, and ... [are usage-based]"
https://www.srvrlss.io/provider/railway/

paid value databases

Open service ← All DB