Fly.io — source summary
The official Fly.io pricing/docs page, fetched 2026-06-09. URL-only ingest (no copy in raw/).
Fly.io is a developer-focused platform for running containers globally — the first managed
developer PaaS in this spoke, contrast partner to the raw IaaS of hetzner-cloud.
What it is
Apps run as Fly Machines — lightweight VMs that boot OCI container images, placed in regions close to users. Billing is per organization, pay-as-you-go, with no mandatory subscription: you “pick and choose which pieces you need.”
Pricing (volatile snapshot, 2026-06-09)
- Compute: billed per second while a Machine runs; a stopped Machine pays only storage (“$0.15” per GB/month). CPU tiers are shared (economical) vs performance; additional RAM is “about $5 per 30 days per GB.”
- Volumes: $0.15/GB per month of provisioned capacity.
- Egress: $0.02/GB for North America/Europe (higher elsewhere) — note this is metered egress, unlike Hetzner’s bundled traffic.
- TLS: first 10 single-hostname certs free, $0.10/mo thereafter.
- Reservations: 40% discount for reserving a block of compute time.
- No free tier for new customers — legacy free allowances apply only to deprecated plans.
Footprint & positioning
18+ regions (Amsterdam, Ashburn, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, London, LA, Mumbai, Paris, San Jose, São Paulo, Secaucus, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto). Where hetzner-cloud sells cheap fixed per-core capacity, Fly bills provisioned resources pro-rated by time and competes on edge proximity + developer ergonomics — the same managed-PaaS bet as render and railway (see synthesis).
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render · railway · hetzner-cloud · oracle-cloud-free