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Render vs Railway: free tier limits side by side
The free tier limit rows of Render and Railway, as each vendor's public page listed them. Data collected on 2026-10-05.
Each column keeps the order of that tool's own page. A row puts two items next to each other by position only: they are the same kind of limit only when the item names say so. This page ranks nothing and picks neither tool.
| Render | Railway |
|---|---|
| Free instance hours: 750 hours per workspace per calendar month | Trial credit: $5 one-time (30 days) |
| Idle spin-down: 15 minutes without inbound traffic | Trial resources per service: 2 vCPU / 1 GB |
| Spin-up time: about 1 minute | Free plan credit: $1/month |
| Free Postgres storage: 1 GB | Free plan resources per service: 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB |
| Free Postgres expiry: 30 days after creation | Free plan replicas: 1 |
| Grace period after Postgres expiry: 14 days | Free plan log history: 3 days |
| Free Postgres databases per workspace: 1 | |
| Free Key Value instances: 1 |
Tool pages
Each tool page has the card and commercial use terms, the gotchas and the address of the vendor page that was read.
- Is Render still free? Yes, with limits
- Is Railway still free? Yes, with limits
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