Fly.io pricing details and 28 free alternatives in Cloud Hosting. Catalogue date August 2026.
not_a_free_offer Tier "Legacy Free" is a free tier closed to new accounts. How we use this.
A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. This one rests on a record effective 2026-10-01, so it lapses on 2027-03-31 unless we record something new first.
Subtypes in Cloud Hosting: container_app — you deploy an app or image and the platform keeps a process running for it. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://fly.io/, where it says: “Sandboxes aren't enough. Give your agent a real computer and get back to building.” How we use this.
Tier "Legacy Free" is a free tier closed to new accounts. Pay-as-you-go only — no free tier for new accounts (since Oct 2024)… Fly.io warrants caution — on 2026-10-01: Fly.io raised the price of memory on Machines to $6.00 per GB a month, from about $5, and left CPU prices unchanged. Every preset includes memory, so every preset costs more: shared-cpu-2x with 512 MB went from $3.89 to $4.39 a month in Ashburn and Secaucus, and performance-1x with 2 GB from $31.00 to $33.00. The smallest, shared-cpu-1x with 256 MB, is now $2.19. Source: https://fly.io/pricing-update/ Monitor for further changes.
Pay-as-you-go only — no free tier for new accounts (since Oct 2024). Legacy accounts (Hobby/Launch/Scale plans) retain: 3 shared-cpu-1x VMs (256 MB RAM), 3 GB volume storage, 100 GB transfer/month. Volume snapshots: first 10 GB free, then $0.08/GB/month.
We read that on 2026-10-02 from https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/, and our check recorded: the page names Fly.io as "fly io" and states "$0.08". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
These alternatives were identified from Fly.io’s pricing changes as recommended replacements.
How Fly.io compares against every one of the 28 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| Fly.io | Legacy Free | not_a_free_offer |
| Cloudflare Pages | Free | unrated |
| Apply.build | Free | stable |
| Deno Deploy | Free | caution |
| Google Cloud Run | Always Free | unrated |
| Cloudflare Durable Objects | Free | stable |
| Sevalla (formerly Kinsta) | Free | stable |
| Ravion | Free | stable |
| Daestro | Free | stable |
| PandaStack | Free | unrated — change unconfirmed |
| Cloudflare Workers | Free | stable |
| Render | Hobby | caution |
| Netlify | Free | caution |
| Choreo | Free | unrated |
| Railway | Free | stable |
| Northflank | Free | stable |
| Vercel | Hobby | stable |
| Val Town | Free | stable |
| Qoddi | Free | stable |
| gigalixir.com | Free | stable |
| dAppling Network | Free | source unconfirmed |
| MDB GO | Free | source unconfirmed |
| surge.sh | Free | source unconfirmed |
| encore.dev | Free | stable |
| GitHub Pages | Free | source unconfirmed |
| ampt.dev | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Clever Cloud | Free | source unconfirmed |
| leapcell | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Neocities | Free | source unconfirmed |
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We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
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{
"tool": "search_deals",
"arguments": {
"query": "Fly.io",
"limit": 5
}
}
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