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Comparison

Fly.io vs Tau

Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.

Comparison space

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Platform

Hosting model
Managed
Managed
Self-Hosted
Self-Hosted
Open source / license
—
Open source / license
bsd-3-clause
Services
CDN
CDN
Compute
Compute
Functions
Functions
GPU Compute
GPU Compute
Key-Value Store
Key-Value Store
Managed Databases
Managed Databases
Object Storage
Object Storage
Queues
Queues
Workloads
APIs
APIs
Backend Services
Backend Services
Background Workers
Background Workers
Real-Time Applications
Real-Time Applications
Scheduled Jobs
Scheduled Jobs
Static Sites
Static Sites
Web Applications
Web Applications
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Compute Autoscaling
Scale to Zero
Scale to Zero
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments

Development & Execution

Deployment & packaging
Bare metal / VM
Bare metal / VM
Docker / OCI
Docker / OCI
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Local Emulator
Local Emulator
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Runtimes
.NET Runtime
.NET Runtime
Custom Runtime
Custom Runtime
Deno
Deno
JVM
JVM
Node.js
Node.js
WebAssembly
WebAssembly
Languages
C#
C#
Crystal
Crystal
Elixir
Elixir
Go
Go
Java
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Python
Python
Ruby
Ruby
Rust
Rust
TypeScript
TypeScript
Frameworks
Django
Django
Unknown
Express.js
Express.js
Unknown
Fastify
Fastify
Unknown
Laravel
Laravel
Unknown
Next.js
Next.js
Unknown
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails
Unknown
Spring Boot
Spring Boot
Unknown
SvelteKit
SvelteKit
Unknown

Pricing

Billing basis
Instance based Fly Machines
Plan based Tau Software
Software charge
$0.0028 / hour shared-cpu-1x
Tau is free to self-host; users fund compute, storage, networking, monitoring, backups, and operations.
Starting price
$0.0028 / hour shared-cpu-1x
Unknown
Free entry / commitment
Started Machines are billed per second for provisioned compute and memory stopped Machines retain separately billed root file systems.
Free plan Available in public plans

Infrastructure & Availability

Infrastructure provider
  • Own Network
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • DigitalOcean
  • Customer-operated bare-metal, virtual-machine, sovereign-cloud, and edge infrastructure
Supported providers
  • Own Network
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • DigitalOcean
  • Customer-operated bare-metal, virtual-machine, sovereign-cloud, and edge infrastructure
Placement control
  • Regional
Unknown

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Access Control
Organization roles and scoped tokens Fly.io organizations and applications
Auth service authentication, authorization, and repository-to-project mapping Tau self-hosted platform services
Single Sign-On
Required Google or GitHub organization sign-in Fly.io organizations
Unknown
Encryption & secrets
Secrets Management
Encrypted application secrets Fly.io applications
Deployment keys, webhook secrets, and X.509 certificates Tau Auth service
Encryption at Rest
LUKS-encrypted volumes and managed database storage Persistent Fly.io storage
Unknown
Encryption in Transit
Unknown
Automatic Let's Encrypt certificates and authenticated encrypted node traffic Tau platform; deployment infrastructure remains operator-owned
Network isolation & protection
Network Isolation
Firecracker microVMs with no shared guest kernel Fly Machines
Unknown
Private Networking
Per-organization 6PN WireGuard network Applications are private unless explicitly exposed
Unknown
Assurances & programs
HIPAA
Eligible use Signed BAA and $99/month compliance package required; customer safeguards apply
Unknown
SOC Reports
SOC 2 Type II Fly.io managed platform
Unknown