Runs services with 100+ users on Railway; outages are mostly builder-related and have not hit running workloads, but only non-critical services stay.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
29% Positive15% Mixed56% Negative
Customers love Railway for being very easy to deploy to, with simple pricing that suits side projects and small production apps.
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Customer reviews (114)
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Runs a Node and Postgres production setup on Railway that has been solid for background jobs and cron.
Runs a Node and Postgres stack with about a hundred users on Railway; it has been solid for months.
Has run a SvelteKit app on Railway with Drizzle and hosted Supabase for nearly two years without seeing the error others hit.
Says Railway at 5 dollars a month handles most cases for an organically growing app and runs smoothly with light caching.
Says Railway has been fantastic for their use over the past six months.
Their firm is all-in on Railway.
A dev team deploys a lot of projects on Railway (and Vercel, Azure) and has had no issues.
Moved a Flask project and Postgres from Heroku to Railway and it has worked perfectly.
Common questions about Railway
What do customers say about Railway?
Customers love Railway for being very easy to deploy to, with simple pricing that suits side projects and small production apps. The main downsides are outages and a security incident that leaked environment variables, which left some users with abused API keys, long deploy blocks and little communication from support.
Is Railway worth it?
Of the 88 reviews with a clear verdict, 30% are positive, 15% mixed and 56% negative. The praise mentioned most is easy to use. The most common complaint is outages.
What do people like about Railway?
The praise reviewers mention most: easy to use (24 reviews), great value (11 reviews) and reliable (8 reviews). For example: Railway handles Node and Postgres with zero configuration headache and its built-in cron jobs work flawlessly.
What are the most common complaints about Railway?
The complaints reviewers mention most: outages (42 reviews), poor support (14 reviews) and surprise bill (6 reviews). For example: They describe a Railway outage running toward 48 hours with their availability dropping from 99% to about 95%.
What does the signal score of 63 mean?
It's how well reviewed Railway is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Railway?
Category: Cloud platform. Free plan: No.
Where do these Railway reviews come from?
114 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.
