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GitHub vs Railway pricing

Both of these are in Developer tool, and we read both pricing pages the same way, with the same reader. Everything below is what each page printed on the day we read it. Both pages read on 1 Sept 2026.

We check each page about once a day, so this is a daily reading, not a live feed. Prices are copied as printed, never converted and never averaged.

The two pages

GitHub

Read on 1 Sept 2026
GitHub price history GitHub pricing page

Railway

Read on 1 Sept 2026
Railway price history Railway pricing page

Tier by tier

Rows are lined up by position on each page, not by tier name, because the names never match across two vendors. Row 1 is the top tier on each page, row 2 the one under it. Where one page has fewer tiers than the other, the row is left blank rather than paired with something it is not.

  1. Row 1
    GitHub
    FreeFree
    Railway
    FreeFree
  2. Row 2
    GitHub
    Team$4/user/month
    Railway
    Hobby$5/mo
  3. Row 3
    GitHub
    Enterprise$21/user/month
    Railway
    Pro$20/mo
  4. Row 4
    GitHubNo tier at this position.
    Railway
    EnterpriseCustom

The entry tier

GitHub is the cheaper of the two at the entry tier: $4/user/month on Team, against $5/mo on Hobby. That is $1 less, 20 percent below Railway.

GitHub charges per person and Railway charges for the whole account, so the two figures are not like for like. This is the cheapest paid monthly tier we can read on each page. Free tiers, quoted tiers and per-unit rates are left out, because none of those is a figure you can put next to another company's figure.

Changes we recorded

Every change we have written up for either page, newest first.

  • Railway pricing page changed

    Railway1 Sept 2026

  • GitHub pricing page changed

    GitHub28 Aug 2026

  • GitHub adds interactive pricing calculator to help customers estimate costs based on custom usage

    GitHub20 Aug 2026

    GitHub adds interactive pricing calculator to help customers estimate costs based on custom usage Why it matters: • Reduces friction in sales cycle by enabling self-service cost estimation before contacting sales, likely improving conversion rates for larger deals • Signals confidence in pricing model and transparency, positioning GitHub as more accessible than competitors with opaque enterprise pricing • Makes per-user/per-action pricing easier to understand, reducing objections from customers concerned about unpredictable costs at scale Positioning: - Added prominent link to interactive pricing calculator on main pricing page - Emphasizes self-service, transparent cost estimation as core value proposition What to do: • Audit your own pricing transparency-if you lack a calculator or cost estimator, build one immediately to match this UX standard • Analyze whether your pricing model is simpler or harder to understand than GitHub's calculator output; adjust positioning accordingly • Test customer perception: do prospects convert faster with transparent calculators vs. sales-gated pricing?

Both pages were read on 1 Sept 2026 by the same reader, so the figures above are two prices from one day rather than two prices from two moments. Prices are copied as printed, never converted and never averaged, and a vendor can change a page any time after we read it. Open both pricing pages before you act on any of this. More Developer tool comparisons, or the dataset behind all of it.

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