David Banys discusses the strategic rationale behind offering a free computing plan by Railway, a company aiming to challenge both new and established cloud computing giants. While traditional high-growth startups focus on exponential user growth, Railway seeks to differentiate itself by providing a sustainable business model that avoids margin-negative computing and large free credit deals, which are typical in the industry. Instead, Railway emphasizes aligning incentives with its customers through a "pay only for what you use" pricing model, leveraging its own orchestrator and proprietary hardware to maintain competitive pricing without compromising margins. This approach allows Railway to support long-running servers that scale with user workloads, offer revenue sharing to partners, and invest in open source template creators, all while building a robust and developer-friendly cloud infrastructure.