What Railway shipped in 2026

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Railway introduced a partner program for open source projects to turn repositories into one-click deploy templates, earning a 25% commission on deployments. The program offers SEO-boosting partner pag…

Railway Agent now available in Slack and Discord

Railway released its Railway Agent bot for Slack and Discord to general availability after a July priority boarding phase. Users can connect the agent via Account Settings and interact with it by ment…

MongoDB high availability, custom headers for project webhooks, MySQL PITR

Railway introduced MongoDB high availability in Priority Boarding, allowing replica sets for failover resilience, custom headers for project webhooks to support tool integrations, and general availabi…

Railway adds MongoDB high availability, custom webhook headers, and MySQL PITR GA

Railway introduced MongoDB high availability in Priority Boarding, allowing replica sets with automatic failover for supported MongoDB 7 and 8 services. Project webhooks now support custom headers for…

Incident Report: September 30, 2026: Domain Routing Disruption

Railway experienced a 5-minute domain routing disruption on September 30, 2026, causing HTTP 404 errors for new connections to Railway-hosted domains due to a race condition between a schema migration…

How to Deploy and Scale Docker Containers on Railway in 2026

Railway now supports direct deployment of Docker containers from Dockerfiles or pre-built images, handling infrastructure like networking, scaling, and billing. The platform uses BuildKit for builds, …

Free VMs without an account, tracing, OpenCode on Cloud Agents

Railway introduced free Linux VMs accessible via `ssh railway.new` without requiring an account, each with 2 vCPU and 2GB RAM for 60 minutes (extendable to 24 hours with sign-up). The platform also la…

Railway adds free VMs without account, tracing, and OpenCode on Cloud Agents

Railway introduced free Linux VMs accessible via `ssh railway.new` without requiring an account, each with 2 vCPU and 2GB RAM for 60 minutes (claimable within 24 hours). The update also added distribu…

Railway Sandboxes, use your ChatGPT subscription with Railway Agent, MySQL PITR

Railway made Sandboxes generally available, enabling isolated Linux VMs for agents or tasks alongside infrastructure. Users can now connect their ChatGPT subscription to power Railway Agent models lik…

Usage-Based vs. Fixed Pricing: Which Is Cheaper in 2026?

Railway details its resource-consumption pricing model (metered CPU, memory, and volume by the minute) and compares it to fixed and request-based alternatives. The post argues consumption pricing is c…

Railway launches Sandboxes, ChatGPT-powered Agent, and MySQL PITR

Railway made Sandboxes generally available, allowing isolated Linux VMs for agents or testing alongside infrastructure. Users can now power Railway Agent with existing ChatGPT subscriptions, and MySQL…

Railway changed Hobby from $1/mo to $5/mo

Pricing updated for Railway: - Hobby: $1/mo → $5/mo (400% increase)

Railway added 3 pricing tiers

Pricing updated for Railway: - Free: promotion changed — 30-day free trial with $5 credits - Free: allowance changed from Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service, 0.5 GB storage, $5 monthly usage credit…

Railway moved Enterprise from $5000/mo to Custom pricing

Pricing updated for Railway: - Free: promotion changed — $5 credits for 30-day free trial - Free: allowance changed from Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service, 0.5 GB of

Railway priced Enterprise at $5000/mo (was Custom pricing)

Pricing updated for Railway: - Hobby: allowance changed from Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service, 0.5 GB of volume storage, $5 of monthly usage credits to $5 of monthly usage credits - Pro: $20/mo →…

Pricing change detected for Railway

Pricing updated for Railway: - Free: allowance changed from Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service, 0.5 GB storage, $5 monthly usage credits to Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM

Pricing updated for Railway: - Free: allowance changed from Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service; 0.5 GB of volume storage; $5 of monthly usage credits to Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service, 0.5 G

One-click Postgres major version upgrades, email forwarding for Railway domains, Claude Max 20x for Conductors

Railway introduced one-click major version upgrades for Postgres databases, simplifying migrations for users. The update also includes email forwarding for Railway domains and a 20x speed boost for Cl…

Pricing updated for Railway: - Free: allowance changed from Includes $5 of monthly usage credits to Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service, 0.5 GB storage, $5 monthly usage credits - Hobby: allowance c