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Fly.io vs LangSmith

Run your app close to users, globally
vs. LLM observability, testing & evaluation — by LangChain

Fly.io websiteLangSmith website

Pricing tiers

Fly.io

Pay-as-you-go
No monthly fee. Machines billed per second. Free allocations: ~3 small shared machines + 3 GB volumes.
$0 base (usage-based)
Shared CPU 1x — 256 MB
Entry VM. 1 shared vCPU, 256 MB RAM. ~$2.02/month continuously on.
$2/mo
Performance 1x — 2 GB
Dedicated 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM.
$32/mo
Reservation — Shared (1 yr)
$36/year for $5/mo credit (40% savings).
$36/mo
Shared CPU 8x — 16 GB
8 shared vCPU, 16 GB RAM.
$89/mo
Performance 16x — 128 GB
Dedicated 16 vCPU, 128 GB RAM.
$1014/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Dedicated capacity, SLA.
Custom
Fly.io website

LangSmith

Developer (Free)
Free forever. 5,000 traces/month. 14-day retention. 1 seat. Basic evaluations.
Free
Plus
$39/seat/month. 10k base traces included ($2.50 per 1k overage). Full evaluations, custom dashboards, email support.
$39/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Self-host option, SSO, custom retention, dedicated support.
Custom
LangSmith website

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing pay-as-you-go on Fly.io vs developer on LangSmith.

MetricFly.ioLangSmith
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Fly.io · 14 features

  • Auto Stop/StartMachines auto-stop when idle, start on request (like scale-to-zero).
  • CertsLet's Encrypt + wildcard certs managed.
  • Fly GPUA100/L40S/A10 on-demand GPU machines.
  • Fly Kubernetes (FKS)Managed Kubernetes on Fly machines.
  • Fly MachinesFirecracker microVMs. Start in <1s. Run any Docker image.
  • Fly PostgresManaged Postgres via Supabase partnership (2024). Also legacy self-run Postgres
  • fly-replay headersRoute request to another region at app level.
  • Fly VolumesPersistent SSD attached to a Machine. Encrypted at rest.
  • Global AnycastSingle IP routes to the closest region automatically.
  • LiteFSDistributed SQLite with primary/replica across regions.
  • Private Networks6PN WireGuard mesh. Connect machines across regions privately.
  • SecretsEncrypted env vars propagated to all regions.
  • Tigris (partner)S3-compatible storage for Fly apps. By partner.
  • Upstash Redis (partner)Managed Redis via Upstash.

LangSmith · 14 features

  • AlertsThreshold alerts on latency, cost, eval metrics.
  • Annotation QueuesHuman-review workflows for trace quality rating.
  • Custom DashboardsAggregate metrics dashboards per project/tag.
  • DatasetsCollect examples → use as eval sets or training data.
  • EvaluationsLLM-as-judge, embedding similarity, custom Python evaluators, offline batch eval
  • LangChain IntegrationAuto-trace any LangChain/LangGraph run with env var.
  • LangGraph IntegrationFirst-class trace + eval for LangGraph agents.
  • LLM TracingAutomatic trace every LLM call + tool call + chain step.
  • OpenTelemetry ExportExport traces as OTLP to Datadog/Honeycomb/etc.
  • PlaygroundTest prompts + models inline before deploying.
  • Prompt CanvasVisual prompt editor with live test + eval.
  • Prompt HubPublic + private prompt library with versioning.
  • Self-Hosted (Enterprise)Docker + k8s deployment in your infra.
  • Threads + SessionsGroup traces into conversational sessions.

Developer interfaces

KindFly.ioLangSmith
CLIflyctl CLILangSmith CLI
SDKlangsmith-js, langsmith-python
RESTMachines APILangSmith REST API
GRAPHQLFly GraphQL API
MCPLangSmith MCP
OTHERFly Postgres (wire)LangSmith Dashboard
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