Railway

aid: railway
name: Railway
description: The Railway public API is built with GraphQL and is the same API that powers the Railway dashboard, providing
  automation for projects, services, deployments, environments, volumes, and CI/CD workflows on the Railway platform.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/railway.png
tags:
- Platform-as-a-Service
- Deployment
- GraphQL
- Infrastructure
- DevOps
tags_raw:
- Platform as a Service
- Deployments
- GraphQL
- Infrastructure
- DevOps
created: '2025-02-06'
modified: '2026-05-04'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/railway/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: railway:public-api
  name: Railway Public GraphQL API
  description: The Railway public API is a GraphQL API that powers the Railway dashboard, enabling automation of projects,
    services, deployments, environments, variables, volumes, and team workflows.
  humanURL: https://docs.railway.com/reference/public-api
  baseURL: https://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Deployment
  - Project
  - Services
  tags_raw:
  - GraphQL
  - Deployments
  - Projects
  - Services
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.railway.com/reference/public-api
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.railway.com/guides/public-api
  - type: GraphQL
    url: https://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2
  - type: Playground
    url: https://railway.com/graphiql
  - type: Postman
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/railway/refs/heads/main/
  - url: graphql/railway-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.railway.com/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/railway-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/railway-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/railwayapp
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/railwayapp
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.railway.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.railway.com/guides/public-api
- type: Signup
  url: https://railway.com/login
- type: Pricing
  url: https://railway.com/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://railway.com/legal/terms
- type: Authentication
  url: https://docs.railway.com/guides/public-api#authentication
- type: Features
  data:
  - 'Free: $5 trial credits, then $1/mo, up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB'
  - 'Hobby: $5 min/mo + $5 credits, up to 48 vCPU / 48 GB'
  - 'Pro: $20 min/mo + $20 credits, up to 1,000 vCPU / 1 TB'
  - 'Enterprise: up to 2,400 vCPU / 2.4 TB, SSO/HIPAA'
  - 'Per-second billing: memory, CPU, volumes, egress'
  - GraphQL API at backboard.railway.com/graphql
  - 'API rate limit: 1,000 req/min/token'
  - 'Build concurrency: 1 Hobby, 5 Pro'
  - GitHub auto-deploy
  - Built-in databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Vector)
  - Templates and stacks
  - Volumes for persistent storage
  - Multi-region deployment (Pro+)
  - Public + private networking
  - Webhooks + GraphQL subscriptions
  - OAuth 2.0 + project tokens
  sources:
  - https://railway.com/pricing
  updated: '2026-05-04'
- type: Integrations
  url: https://docs.railway.com/integrations
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.railway.com/llms.txt
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.railway.com/rss.xml
integrations:
- name: OAuth
- name: Stripe Provisioning
- name: Railway GraphQL API
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com