Free 7-day sandbox server included · Test any repo or open-source template in 60s
Bring your own DigitalOcean, Vultr, Hetzner, AWS, OVHcloud, Scaleway, or UpCloud account. Push custom full-stack code like Heroku, or spin up managed n8n, AFFiNE, Zulip and Postgres in one click, at raw VPS prices.
Free forever for 1 server + 1 database server · No credit card · No cloud account required to test
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Most deployed:
1 · Paste a GitHub URL or pick a stack
Detects your frameworkProvisions Postgres / RedisZero-downtime HTTPS
3 · Monthly bill comparison
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Heroku and Render list prices checked 2026-10-13; provider prices checked 2026-11-04. Your server is billed by your provider.
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Works with any stack
Built for how you work
For indie hackers
Why pay $20/mo for every new idea? Connect one box and run 15 apps, 5 Postgres databases and Redis on it — then add servers and scale the winners on the same platform, never re-platform.
Railyard for indie hackers →For dev agencies
Spin up a dedicated server per client in about two minutes, or host all staging apps on one agency powerhouse server. Give every pull request an automatic preview URL to send to clients. Hand off the server keys cleanly whenever a project ends.
Railyard for agencies →For senior devs
We don't trap you in proprietary serverless functions. We provision standard Docker containers, automatic SSL and private networking on raw Ubuntu. If you ever leave, your server and containers keep running without a hiccup.
What runs on your server →For DevOps & platform teams
Terraform, REST API, CLI and MCP for everything. SSO, SCIM, roles, deploy approvals and an audit log. Backups, point-in-time restore and automatic database failover, on servers in your own account.
Railyard for DevOps teams →For vibe coders
Made your app with Cursor, Lovable, Bolt or v0? Paste the repo. Railyard detects the framework, adds the database, HTTPS and backups, and puts it live on a server you own. No Docker, no SSH, no DevOps.
Railyard for vibe coders →For startups & founders
Team chat, docs, CRM, scheduling, analytics, forms and a password manager, all open source, all on your own server. No per-seat SaaS bills, and your company data stays yours.
Railyard for startups →No more DevOps hustle
Everything you'd otherwise patch, script and get paged for at 3am is handled for you, on servers you still fully own.
SSH brute-force and bot scanners hammering your box
ActiveProtect bans them automatically
Unpatched OS and expiring TLS certificates
Security updates apply themselves and HTTPS renews on its own
Backups you've never actually tested
Verified database backups and point-in-time restore
A bad deploy taking production down
Health-checked releases and one-click rollback
Ports you forgot were open
Firewalled by default: only web and SSH, extra ports flagged
Finding out from users that the app is down
Logs, metrics and alerts by email, plus a security score per server
The real product
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Railyard preview of storefront
| Status | ✅ Live |
| Preview | https://pr-42.staging.youragency.com |
| Last deploy | a8f3d1c at 2026-11-04 14:02 UTC |
| Logs | deploy #1842 |
Comment /railyard redeploy to deploy it again or /railyard destroy to remove it. It is removed when this pull request closes.
The comment Railyard posts on your pull request (example).
For developers and DevOps
Every action in Railyard is also a CLI command, an API call, a Terraform resource and an MCP tool. Same token, same permissions.
brew install almokhtarbr/railyard/railyard
railyard login
railyard deploy --follow
railyard logs --follow
railyard rollback shop 112Deploy, tail logs and roll back from your terminal. Shell completion for zsh, bash and fish. Read the docs →
terraform {
required_providers { railyard = { source = "almokhtarbr/railyard" } }
}
resource "railyard_app" "web" {
name = "shop"
git_url = "https://github.com/acme/shop"
git_ref = "main"
}
resource "railyard_domain" "www" {
app_id = railyard_app.web.id
hostname = "www.example.com"
}Apps, env vars and domains as code, reviewed in pull requests like everything else. Read the docs →
curl -s -X POST https://app.railyard.run/api/applications \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $RLY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"application":{"name":"blog",
"git_url":"https://github.com/acme/blog",
"git_ref":"main"}}'A plain JSON API with scoped tokens. Script anything you can click. Read the docs →
claude mcp add --transport http railyard \
https://app.railyard.run/api/mcp \
--header "Authorization: Bearer rly_..."Let Claude, Cursor or any MCP client deploy and debug with a token you scope. Read the docs →
Shipping every week
3 releases in the last 30 days.
No lock-in X-ray
Developers ask what happens to their servers if we disappear. Here's exactly what Railyard installs, and why your apps don't need us to keep running.
Railyard sets up your server with proven, standard components. Nothing proprietary runs your app.
Connecting a server shows every setup step live. You keep full root SSH access and can inspect anything.
Disconnect Railyard tomorrow and your apps keep serving as standard containers, with their HTTPS certificates still renewing. Export every app as a manifest.
Anti-SaaS pricing calculator
Drag the numbers and watch a hosted PaaS bill climb while your server bill stays flat.
Size a real stack — as many apps and workers as you run. Railyard's price stays flat; the managed clouds bill for every process.
Public list prices checked on October 13, 2026: Heroku · Render · DigitalOcean. Taxes not included. Railyard adds up the memory of your processes and databases and picks the smallest Droplet that fits.
Pricing
Never per app, per deploy, per seat or per gigabyte. Your servers are billed by your provider at their price.
Free
Free
ProRecommended
$19/ month
Team
$99/ month
Moving from Heroku, Render, Railway, Fly.io or Vercel?
On a short call we move your processes, variables, databases with their data, and domains onto your own server. The move itself is free, and your old app keeps serving until you switch DNS.
No credit card. No cloud account needed to test. Keep your first server free for good.