Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 1 independent review sources
- 38 third-party reviews counted
- 2 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 0.11
- 4 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Railway ranks #3
Railway ranks #3 of 9 app hosting & paas with a TOP SCORE of 50.
The category leader scores 56, a gap of 6 points.
That is 4 points above the category average of 47.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 73; its weakest is Web Authority at 16.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
25 → 51 ↑25.8
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G2 ↗ | 4.7/5 | 94 | 38 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude sonnet 5 grounded | 80% | 70% | 50% | 2.6 | 10 | 6 Oct 2026 |
| claude sonnet 5 grounded | 8% | 0% | 0% | 6.0 | 12 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| claude sonnet 5 parametric | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | 12 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| claude sonnet 5 grounded | 8% | 8% | 0% | 3.0 | 12 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| claude sonnet 5 parametric | 8% | 0% | 0% | 3.0 | 12 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| claude sonnet 5 parametric | 83% | 58% | 0% | 3.2 | 12 | 31 Aug 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- Railway Docs31 Aug 2026
- Railway Corp.31 Aug 2026
- G231 Aug 2026
- Trustpilot31 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Railway is a usage-based application hosting platform that deploys containers from GitHub, Docker images or the CLI and bundles managed Postgres/MySQL/Redis/MongoDB, volumes, object storage, cron jobs, CDN/WAF and observability on one platform. Billing is metered per second on CPU, RAM and storage with no per-request charges. It targets indie developers on the $5 Hobby plan and small-to-mid engineering teams on the $20/month workspace-wide Pro plan.
- Category
- App Hosting & PaaS
- Products
- Railway application hosting (container deploys from GitHub, Docker image, Dockerfile, CLI), Managed databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB (with HA variants), Volumes and object storage buckets, Cron jobs and background workers, Networking: private networking, TCP/HTTP proxy, CDN, WAF, edge rules, static outbound IPs, SMTP, Observability: build/deploy logs, metrics, alerts, spend limits, Railway Agent (AI) with MCP server and connectors, GraphQL API and OAuth, iOS and Android mobile app, VM/sandbox pricing (beta, Priority Boarding only)
- Markets
- Solo developers / indie hackers, SMB, Mid-market engineering teams, Enterprise
- Integrations
- GitHub (autodeploys, PR/preview environments), Docker images and custom Dockerfiles, Railway CLI, MCP server, ChatGPT, Codex, Claude, Claude Code, Grok, Cursor, Webhooks, GraphQL API / OAuth, AWS Marketplace
- Pricing
- Hobby $5/month minimum (includes $5 of monthly usage credits; charged even at zero usage) · free tier: Free $0/mo — starts as a 30-day trial with $5 one-time credit, then $1 free credit per month; 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service, 0.5 GB volume, 1 project, 3 services, 1 replica, 0 custom domains after trial, 3-day logs, no global regions, community support, no credit card required pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- SOC 2 compliance is listed on Pro and Enterprise. HIPAA BAAs are Enterprise-only or unlocked at $1,000/month committed spend. Audit log retention is 48 hours on Free/Hobby, 30 days on Pro and 18 months on Enterprise; SAML SSO, access groups and environment RBAC are Enterprise features. Railway publishes a trust portal (trust.railway.com), DPA, AUP, Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Enterprise Agreement and a bug bounty program. Data deletion clocks: 30 days after Free/Trial expiry, 60 days after Hobby cancellation, 90 days on Pro. Corporate entity confirmed as Railway Corp.
- Official website
- https://railway.com ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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Category context
- This platform50
- Category leader56
- Category average47
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