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Fly.io pricing & features
Run your app close to users, globally
Run Docker containers as Fly Machines in 30+ regions. Global anycast, Postgres, volumes, private network, Fly Kubernetes. Pay-as-you-go.
Data sourced from vendor documentation · Last updated June 2026
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go | Free | No monthly fee. Machines billed per second. Free allocations: ~3 small shared machines + 3 GB volumes. |
| Shared CPU 1x — 256 MB | $2/mo | Entry VM. 1 shared vCPU, 256 MB RAM. ~$2.02/month continuously on. |
| Performance 1x — 2 GB | $32/mo | Dedicated 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM. |
| Reservation — Shared (1 yr) | $36/mo | $36/year for $5/mo credit (40% savings). |
| Shared CPU 8x — 16 GB | $89/mo | 8 shared vCPU, 16 GB RAM. |
| Performance 16x — 128 GB | $1014/mo | Dedicated 16 vCPU, 128 GB RAM. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom. Dedicated capacity, SLA. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | compute pricing | per-second billing; shared-cpu-1x-256 ~$0.0028/hr, performance-1x-2g ~$0.0447/hr | Per-machine pricing |
| — | dedicated ipv4 | $2/month | Dedicated IPv4 address |
| — | deployment unit | Fly Machine (Firecracker microVM running a Docker image) | Deployment primitive |
| — | egress africa india | $0.12/GB | Outbound egress — Africa/India |
| — | egress apac | $0.04/GB | Outbound egress — Asia/Pacific/South America |
| — | egress na eu | $0.02/GB | Outbound egress — NA/EU |
| — | fly kubernetes | $75/month per cluster + compute | Fly Kubernetes (FKS) |
| — | ipv6 free | unlimited | Free IPv6 addresses |
| — | regions | 30+ regions (ams, atl, bog, bom, cdg, dfw, ewr, fra, gdl, gig, gru, hkg, iad, jnb, lax, lhr, mad, mia, nrt, ord, otp, phx, qro, scl, sea, sin, sjc, syd, waw, yul, yyz) | Available regions |
| — | stopped machine | $0.15/GB/month of root filesystem | Stopped machine billing |
| — | support premium | $199/month | Premium support |
| — | support standard | $29/month | Standard support |
| — | volume snapshots | $0.08/GB/month (first 10 GB free) | Volume snapshot storage |
| — | volumes | $0.15/GB/month | Volume storage |
| — | wildcard cert | $1/month | Wildcard SSL certificate |
Features
- Auto Stop/Start — Machines auto-stop when idle, start on request (like scale-to-zero).
- Certs — Let's Encrypt + wildcard certs managed.
- Fly GPU — A100/L40S/A10 on-demand GPU machines. · docs
- Fly Kubernetes (FKS) — Managed Kubernetes on Fly machines.
- Fly Machines — Firecracker microVMs. Start in <1s. Run any Docker image. · docs
- Fly Postgres — Managed Postgres via Supabase partnership (2024). Also legacy self-run Postgres apps. · docs
- Fly Volumes — Persistent SSD attached to a Machine. Encrypted at rest. · docs
- Global Anycast — Single IP routes to the closest region automatically.
- LiteFS — Distributed SQLite with primary/replica across regions. · docs
- Private Networks — 6PN WireGuard mesh. Connect machines across regions privately. · docs
- Secrets — Encrypted env vars propagated to all regions.
- Tigris (partner) — S3-compatible storage for Fly apps. By partner.
- Upstash Redis (partner) — Managed Redis via Upstash.
- fly-replay headers — Route request to another region at app level. · docs
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| graphql-api | Fly GraphQL API | graphql | — |
| wire-pg | Fly Postgres (wire) | other | pg |
| rest-api | Machines API | rest | v1 |
| cli | flyctl CLI | cli | 0.x |
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