Fly.io Pricing, Features & Alternatives

Runtime Platform · PaaS

Fly.io runs containerized applications as lightweight virtual machines in regions you choose. Each Machine is a full application instance with its own networking, storage, and lifecycle. Teams can configure Machines to start and stop with traffic, making startup latency and idle capacity explicit operating choices. Fly Proxy can scale the running subset of already-created Machines, and zero requires the applicable minimum to be zero. Storage growth, failover, backups, and point-in-time recovery in this profile refer to Fly Managed Postgres.

Best for

Containerized applications, APIs, stateful services, and globally distributed workloads that need more infrastructure control than a conventional serverless platform provides.

Watch out for

Fly exposes low-level Machine controls. Blue-green deploys need health checks and spare capacity; Managed Postgres recovery creates a new billed cluster, while arbitrary volume-backed apps keep their own resilience burden.

Workloads: APIs
Backend Services
Background Workers
Web Applications
Services: Compute
Managed Databases
GPU Compute
Object Storage
Delivery: Managed

Development & Execution

Supported platform capabilities, execution environments, development technologies, deployment models, integrations, and triggers.

Runtimes

Custom Runtime
Deno
.NET Runtime
JVM
Node.js

Languages

C#
Crystal
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
TypeScript

Frameworks

Django
Express.js
Fastify
Laravel
Next.js
Ruby on Rails
Spring Boot
SvelteKit

Capabilities

Compute Autoscaling
Storage Autoscaling
Scale to Zero
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Automatic Failover
Point-in-Time Recovery
Automated Backups

Database support

MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis

Architecture

GPU vendors

NVIDIA

Deployment & packaging

Docker / OCI
Kubernetes

Integrations

Datadog
GitHub
GitLab
Redis
Terraform

Triggers

Scheduled Invocation
HTTP Requests
Queue Messages

Pricing

Published pricing structure, representative costs, and material billing factors.

Starting Price: $0.0028 / hour shared-cpu-1x
Primary Billing: Instance based Fly Machines
Commitment: Started Machines are billed per second for provisioned compute and memory stopped Machines retain separately billed root file systems.

Fly Machines

Primary Pricing

Representative started Machine rates for Ashburn, Virginia; prices vary by region and Machines are billed by the second while running.

Instance	Resources	Price
shared-cpu-1x Approximately $2.02 per month when continuously running	1 shared CPU, 256 MB RAM	$0.0028 / hour
shared-cpu-4x Approximately $23.66 per month when continuously running	4 shared CPUs, 4 GB RAM	$0.0329 / hour
performance-4x Approximately $170.33 per month when continuously running	4 performance CPUs, 16 GB RAM	$0.2366 / hour

Representative sizes. See official pricing for all available options.

Fly.io Storage and Networking Additional Usage Cost

Representative charges directly associated with Fly Machines.

Resource	Billing Unit	Price
Persistent volume storage Billed hourly whether attached or unattached	per GB-month of provisioned capacity	$0.15
Volume snapshots First 10 GB free each month	per GB-month of stored snapshot data	$0.08
Dedicated IPv4 address	per month	$2

Billing Commitment

Started Machines are billed per second for provisioned compute and memory; stopped Machines retain separately billed root file systems.

Infrastructure & Availability

Where workloads run, how deployment is scoped, and what underlying infrastructure the platform depends on.

Fly.io currently offers 18 application regions on servers it operates in data centers worldwide. The list reflects Fly.io's completed region-consolidation program and excludes its 17 deprecated regions. Regional capacity and available Machine sizes can vary. Managed Postgres, WireGuard gateways, GPUs, and other hardware-specific products are available in only subsets of these regions.

Execution

Single Region
Multi Region

Deployment scope

Regional

Geographic availability

North America: 7
Latin America: 1
Europe: 5
Asia Pacific: 4
Middle East & Africa: 1

Infrastructure providers

Own Network

Availability footprint

Regions: 18

Available regions

Location	Area	Region ID
Amsterdam, Netherlands WireGuard gateway and Managed Postgres region.	Europe	ams
Stockholm, Sweden WireGuard gateway region; Managed Postgres is not listed.	Europe	arn
Mumbai, India WireGuard gateway region; Managed Postgres is not listed.	Asia Pacific	bom
Paris, France WireGuard gateway region; Managed Postgres is not listed.	Europe	cdg
Dallas, Texas, US WireGuard gateway and Managed Postgres region.	North America	dfw
Secaucus, New Jersey, US WireGuard gateway region; Managed Postgres is not listed.	North America	ewr
Frankfurt, Germany WireGuard gateway and Managed Postgres region.	Europe	fra
São Paulo, Brazil Managed Postgres region; WireGuard gateway is not listed.	Latin America	gru
Ashburn, Virginia, US WireGuard gateway and Managed Postgres region.	North America	iad
Johannesburg, South Africa Neither WireGuard gateway nor Managed Postgres is listed.	Middle East & Africa	jnb
Los Angeles, California, US WireGuard gateway and Managed Postgres region.	North America	lax
London, United Kingdom WireGuard gateway and Managed Postgres region.	Europe	lhr
Tokyo, Japan WireGuard gateway and Managed Postgres region.	Asia Pacific	nrt
Chicago, Illinois, US WireGuard gateway and Managed Postgres region.	North America	ord
Singapore WireGuard gateway and Managed Postgres region.	Asia Pacific	sin
San Jose, California, US WireGuard gateway and Managed Postgres region.	North America	sjc
Sydney, Australia WireGuard gateway and Managed Postgres region.	Asia Pacific	syd
Toronto, Canada WireGuard gateway and Managed Postgres region.	North America	yyz

Availability reviewed 2026-08-22 · Availability source

Security & Compliance

Security Controls

Access Control: Organization roles and scoped tokens Fly.io organizations and applications
Single Sign-On: Required Google or GitHub organization sign-in Fly.io organizations
Encryption at Rest: LUKS-encrypted volumes and managed database storage Persistent Fly.io storage
Encryption in Transit: TLS for public traffic and WireGuard for private traffic Fly.io networking
Private Networking: Per-organization 6PN WireGuard network Applications are private unless explicitly exposed
Network Isolation: Firecracker microVMs with no shared guest kernel Fly Machines
Secrets Management: Encrypted application secrets Fly.io applications

Audits & Certifications

SOC Reports: SOC 2 Type II Fly.io managed platform

Compliance

HIPAA: Eligible use Signed BAA and $99/month compliance package required; customer safeguards apply

FAQ

Is Fly.io serverless?

No, not in the functions-as-a-service (FaaS) sense. Fly.io runs applications in Fly Machines, which are lightweight VMs. Machines can start and stop automatically for serverless-style workloads, but you deploy and manage Machines rather than functions.

Can I still get Fly.io's old free allowances?

No, not as a new customer. Fly.io discontinued its legacy plans in October 2024. Organizations already on eligible legacy plans can keep their included free allowances while they remain on those plans.

How much does Fly.io cost for a typical app?

Fly.io does not have one representative flat app price. Started Machines are billed per second for provisioned compute and memory, while persistent volumes, snapshots, dedicated IPv4 addresses, and network usage can add separate charges.

What databases does Fly.io support?

Fly.io supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis-compatible database workloads. Database operation and availability depend on the specific deployment or managed product rather than one universal Fly database service.

How many regions does Fly.io deploy to?

Fly.io currently lists 18 application regions on infrastructure it operates worldwide. Capacity and available Machine sizes vary by region, and products such as Managed Postgres or GPU Machines may be available in only a subset.

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