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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.

Free credit
$5
Credit window
30 days

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

Gotchas

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Sources

paid value databases
Open service Source ← All DB

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