Fly.io dropped free allowances for new accounts
Hobby, Launch and Scale plans were discontinued for new organizations, which now get no free allowance, only a short trial.
What changed
- Free tier cut, Oct 2024
- Before: Plans with free allowances (e.g. 3 small VMs)
- After: Pure pay as you go with a short trial
- Existing customers: grandfathered
Alternatives to Fly.io
Fly.io is the cheapest hosting platform we track at the entry plan. The others:
- Railway: $5/mo
- Heroku: $5/mo
- Cloudflare Workers: $5/mo
- DigitalOcean Apps: $5/mo
- Hetzner Cloud: $7.49/mo
- Netlify: $9/mo
- Vercel: $20/mo
- Render: $25/mo
Fly.io alternatives: 8 hosting platforms compared, at every size.
Sources
Every price and change for Fly.io: Fly.io.