Fly.io pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Fly.io (fly.io) is a hosting platform. Pay as you go, per-second Machines plus egress. No free plan.
What Fly.io costs
- Entry plan: $2.19/mo
- Small app: $5.69/mo
Plan compared: Smallest Machine, 256 MB. Cheapest paid plan per month (per seat where plans are seat-based).
Fly.io price hikes
- Fly.io raised Machine prices 13% · Oct 1, 2026
Shared-CPU Machines got about 13% pricier and added RAM 20% pricier. - Fly.io dropped free allowances for new accounts · Oct 2024
Hobby, Launch and Scale plans were discontinued for new organizations, which now get no free allowance, only a short trial.
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.
Every change we logged
- Oct 1, 2026 · Price increase: Shared-CPU Machines got about 13% pricier and added RAM 20% pricier.
- Feb 2026 · Price increase: Volume snapshot storage started billing beyond 10 GB free.
- Oct 2024 · Free tier cut: Hobby, Launch and Scale plans were discontinued for new organizations, which now get no free allowance, only a short trial.
Sources
Pricing page: fly.io/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Small app = 512 MB Machine $3.69 + 100 GB × $0.02 = $5.69. Prices vary by region. Fly hasn't said whether existing customers keep the old rates.