How much does Cheaploy cost?

Cheaploy charges a monthly platform fee for the managed DevOps automation. Your cloud bill stays $0 because deployments run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Always Free tier — 2 ARM Ampere CPUs, 12GB RAM, 200GB block storage, a load balancer and 10TB egress per month, perpetually free with no credit-card charges.

What's the catch with Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier?

Oracle's free tier is genuinely free, but new accounts sometimes see capacity errors in popular regions when launching ARM instances. Cheaploy auto-retries across regions and availability domains until provisioning succeeds.

Do I need DevOps experience?

No. Cheaploy detects your stack (React, Node, Python, Go, Java, etc.), generates an optimized multi-stage Dockerfile, provisions a VCN, ARM compute, load balancer, and SSL certificate, then deploys — all from a single 'Deploy' click.

Can I deploy a Lovable, Bolt, v0, or Cursor app?

Yes. Cheaploy was built for vibe coders shipping AI-generated apps. Upload a ZIP from Lovable, paste a GitHub URL from Cursor or v0, or connect Bolt — Cheaploy handles the rest and gives you a URL on your own cloud.

How is this different from Vercel, Render, or Fly.io?

Vercel, Render, and Fly.io rent you their infrastructure with generous free tiers that get expensive at scale. Cheaploy deploys to your own Oracle Cloud account, so the infrastructure is yours — and Oracle's free tier never expires.

Railway vs Oracle Always Free: honest comparison (2026)

Railway vs Oracle Always Free

Usage-based pricing means a traffic spike or a memory leak turns into a bill you only see afterwards.

What Railway gives you today

A limited trial credit rather than a perpetual free tier — once it is spent, services stop until you add a paid plan.

Typical spend: $5-$20/month for a small app plus a database, rising with usage

Side by side

Feature	Railway	Oracle Always Free + Cheaploy
Compute	Shared containers sized by usage-based pricing	Up to 4 ARM OCPUs and 24 GB RAM (Oracle Always Free), yours alone
Sleeping / cold starts	Services stay up while credit lasts	None — a long-running VM you own
Bandwidth	Metered — egress is billed	10 TB/month outbound included by Oracle
Database	Managed Postgres billed by usage	Self-hosted Postgres, MySQL or Oracle Autonomous Database at $0
Background jobs & cron	Usually a paid add-on	Just another container on the same VM
Who owns the infrastructure	The provider	Your own Oracle Cloud tenancy
What you pay	Per plan, per seat, per bandwidth overage	$0 infrastructure + a flat Cheaploy platform fee

Stay on Railway if

You want zero infrastructure ownership and are happy with usage billing
Your team values Railway's template ecosystem more than cost control

Switch if

You want a predictable flat cost instead of usage-based surprises
You need persistent disks, long-running workers or big memory for free
You want the deployment to live in infrastructure you own and can leave with

Frequently asked

Is Oracle Always Free really perpetual?+

Yes. Unlike trial credits, the Always Free resources have no expiry as long as the account stays active.

Do I lose Railway's ease of use?+

Cheaploy provides the managed layer — GitHub deploys, health checks, TLS, logs and rollbacks — on top of your own Oracle VM.

Can I migrate my database?+

Yes: pg_dump from Railway and restore into your self-hosted Postgres.

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