Deploy and Host CyberChef on Railway

CyberChef is GCHQ's web app for encoding, decoding, encryption, compression and data analysis. You drag operations such as Base64, hex, AES, XOR, hashing, regular expressions and JSON formatting into a recipe and see the result instantly. It runs fully in the browser, so the data you paste never leaves your machine.

About Hosting CyberChef

This template deploys CyberChef v11.5.0 from the official image, a small nginx server that serves the static app on port 8080. There is no database, no volume and no account system, because every operation runs in the visitor's browser and nothing is sent back to the server. That makes it a good fit for a team-internal copy that works without depending on the public instance. The service uses very little memory and fits easily on the Hobby plan. Recipes can be saved as links or in the browser's local storage and shared with colleagues.

Common Use Cases

Decoding tokens, payloads and log fields during debugging and incident response
Converting between encodings, hashing and quick crypto experiments
An internal, self-hosted copy for teams that cannot paste data into public sites

Dependencies for CyberChef Hosting

ghcr.io/gchq/cyberchef:11.5.0 (official image)

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Service	Image	Networking	Storage
cyberchef	`ghcr.io/gchq/cyberchef:11.5.0`	public domain on 8080	none

Notes:

The app is public by design, because it only serves static files and all processing happens in the browser. To restrict who can open it, put it behind an authenticating proxy.
Recipes are shareable as URLs, for example https:///#recipe=From_Base64(...).

This is a community-maintained deployment package and does not imply affiliation with or endorsement by the CyberChef project or its maintainers.

Why Deploy CyberChef on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying CyberChef on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.