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Do AI agents pick Railway?

How often agents choose Railway when a developer needs hosting & deploy — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Railway

#3 of 6 hosting
7%Pick Rate
95% CI 3%12%

When developers ask an AI agent for hosting, Railway is picked 7% of the time — ranking #3 of 6 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 7% Named, not picked 27% Never surfaced 66%

Beaten by Vercel (26%), Cloudflare Pages (13%).

Awareness

208K package downloads / week

Thin presence in the data models learn from — an awareness problem. Get into more code, docs, and developer discussion.

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 64 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

802K installs / month ▲ 5% MoM

Installs are roughly flat month over month.

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About Railway

A cloud platform for deploying and hosting applications without manual infrastructure configuration.

Railway is a hosting platform that lets developers deploy applications directly from their code, handling the underlying infrastructure automatically. It supports project-based organization with environment management, making it suitable for individual developers and teams who want to ship code without configuring servers or cloud resources manually.

Where to start

Sign up for Railway and use the CLI to authenticate with `railway login`, then connect your project and deploy with `railway up`. For CI/CD environments, set the `RAILWAY_TOKEN` environment variable instead of interactive login.

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