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The $5 plan sounds good and affordable, but I think the VPS comparison is disingenuous because you can typically put a lot of things on a $5-10 dollar VPS. I pay $20/mo and have something like 30 low-usage apps running on a single server. With Railway that would cost me $150.

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I must be misunderstanding the pricing (talk about confusing) or the value proposition.

The way I understand it those $5 give you all the management features and $5 worth of compute.

But compute costs $10 GB/month for RAM and $20 per vCPU/month.

So in comparison to a VPS this costs $30 for a full-time 1vCPU/1GB machine, ignoring network egress.

At least as a VPS replacement this really doesn’t seem worth it. For that money I can get a 12 vCPU / 24 GB machine with my current provider, which includes 80TB traffic.

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