How Fly.io prices
Captured October 19, 2026 at 1440px wide.
Fly.io plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|
| StandardBasic support for single developers and small teams. | $29 | / mo |
| PremiumEnhanced support for growing businesses. | $199 | / mo |
| EnterpriseTop-tier support for large-scale operations. | From $2,500 | / mo |
As printed on the page captured October 19, 2026.
How does Fly.io pricing work?
The value metric is the resource itself. Compute is priced per preset by the hour and the month, from 'shared-cpu-1x · 256MB' at '$0.0030' an hour or '$2.19' a month to 'performance-1x · 2GB' at '$0.0458' and '$33.00', with 'Show all 14 presets' opening the full list and RAM added 'at $6.00 per GB per month, up to 128GB'. Storage and network sit in a second card: volumes at '$0.15' per GB a month, snapshots at '$0.08', egress at '$0.02 / GB' in North America and Europe up to '$0.12 / GB' in Africa and India, and a dedicated IPv4 at '$2.00 / mo'. Packaging stays out of the way of the meter. There are no compute plans, only products in tabs, Machines, Sprites and Managed Postgres, and paid layers for support and compliance.
The motion is self-serve at the meter and sales-led at the commitment. The hero, 'Start for free, pay as you grow.', pairs 'Get Started' with 'Calculate your cost', and a mid-page band, "Know your bill before it arrives", sends buyers to a calculator that estimates Machines, Sprites, Postgres, storage and bandwidth together. Support follows as three cards with response times as the scale, compliance as a single '$99/mo' HIPAA package marked 'Available on any paid plan.', and two closing cards: a Startup program with 'Up to $15,000 in credit' and a Custom plan for 'Committed spend, volume discounts, invoicing and dedicated capacity.' The custom card gives the sales team room to trade a commitment for a better rate.
Under the hood the page describes a rate table with three dimensions: preset, region and time. A region selector, set to 'Ashburn' in this capture, changes compute prices, egress is priced by geography, and a 'Stopped Machine, per GB rootfs' line at '$0.15' a month charges for the disk a paused machine keeps. Storage bills on what is reserved, 'Volumes bill on provisioned capacity, not usage.', while compute bills on what runs, which matches each charge to the cost Fly.io carries. Support, compliance and capacity are separate products layered on top, so a team adds the service level it needs without a plan change. Per-second compute with regional rates is where infrastructure pricing is heading, and pairing it with a calculator up front is worth borrowing.
What does Fly.io's pricing page do well?
- The hero places 'Calculate your cost' beside 'Get Started', and a calculator band repeats it before the support plans
- Each preset prints both a per-hour and a per-month price, so a buyer can read the meter and the monthly total in one row
- Response times give the support ladder its scale: '36-hour first response time', '24-hour first response time' and '4-hour first response time, 24x7'
- Compliance is one flat add-on, a HIPAA package at '$99/mo' with the BAA pre-signed, 'Available on any paid plan.'
- Product tabs, Machines, Sprites and Managed Postgres, keep each rate table short under one heading
What does Fly.io's pricing page reveal about its pricing strategy?
- Compute bills on what runs and storage on what is provisioned, two meters matched to two kinds of cost
- A region selector and egress priced by geography make location a pricing dimension alongside size and time
- A 'Stopped Machine, per GB rootfs' charge prices the disk a paused machine holds, so idle capacity carries its own small rate
- Support, compliance and committed capacity are sold as separate layers, which keeps the base meter the same for every customer
- The Custom plan names its levers, committed spend, volume discounts, invoicing and dedicated capacity, the classic trade of commitment for rate
Learn with Orb
- GuideFly.io pricing: Plans and cost breakdown for 2025 Orb's buyer guide to Fly.io's plans and costs. This page covers how the pricing page presents them.
- ProductExperience Kit 'Calculate your cost' in the hero and a band promising "Know your bill before it arrives" put an estimate across Machines, Sprites, Postgres, storage and bandwidth up front; Orb's Experience Kit builds calculators like this on one source of pricing truth.
- ProductPrice modeling Compute priced by preset, by region through a selector and by the second, with egress from '$0.02 / GB' to '$0.12 / GB' by geography, is a dimensional rate table, the pricing logic Orb's price modeling handles without re-engineering billing.
- DocsConfiguring plans: minimums and plan phases The Custom plan offers 'Committed spend, volume discounts, invoicing and dedicated capacity.'; in Orb, a dollar commitment is a minimum with any shortfall added to the invoice, and plan phases step it up on a schedule.
Questions about Fly.io pricing
How much does Fly.io cost?
Fly.io's pricing starts at $0.0030/hr (shared-cpu-1x, 256MB). The page shows 3 plans, with the top plan priced through sales.
What pricing model does Fly.io use?
Fly.io prices by usage, combined with flat-rate tiers. Buyers can sign up on their own or go through the sales team. Its plans are aimed mainly at developers.
Does Fly.io have a free plan?
Fly.io's pricing page shows no free plan or free trial. The lowest paid plan starts at $0.0030/hr (shared-cpu-1x, 256MB).
Does Fly.io offer an annual discount?
Fly.io's pricing page shows a single billing period. The listed prices start at $0.0030/hr (shared-cpu-1x, 256MB). Terms for the plans priced through sales are set with the sales team.
How is Fly.io's pricing page laid out?
The page shows 3 plans and includes a calculator. The breakdown above marks 14 points on it: 6 things it does well and 8 insights into the pricing.
What do Fly.io's paid support plans include?
Community support is free, and Fly.io sells three paid support plans. Standard is $29 / mo with a "36-hour first response time" and technical architecture support. Premium is $199 / mo with a "24-hour first response time", a 1-hour first response for urgent issues, a dedicated Slack support channel and quarterly Solutions Architecture sessions. Enterprise starts "From $2,500 / mo" and adds a "4-hour first response time, 24x7", a 15-minute emergency first response and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
Does Fly.io offer HIPAA compliance?
Yes, Fly.io offers a HIPAA package at $99/mo, with the BAA pre-signed so teams can start building right away. The compliance section also lists SOC 2 Type II and an available DPA. The page describes the package as "Available on any paid plan".
Does Fly.io have a startup program with credits?
Yes, the Fly.io Startup program offers "Up to $15,000 in credit for eligible early-stage companies" along with a direct line to the team. Companies apply through the "Apply for credit" button on the pricing page. For larger commitments, a Custom plan covers "Committed spend, volume discounts, invoicing and dedicated capacity".
From the page as captured October 19, 2026. Current prices are on fly.io
Chroma
$250/mo + usageChroma prints all four metered rates in the hero, Write at $2.50 per GiB, Storage at $0.33 per GiB per month, Query at $0.0075 per TiB and Network at $0.09 per GiB returned, then hands the reader a calculator that turns documents and queries into a $79 monthly total. Plans sit on top of the meter: Starter at $0 plus usage, Team at $250 a month plus usage with $100 in credits, and Enterprise on custom terms.
Confluent
~$385/moConfluent prices serverless Kafka on a composite meter, eCKU-hours plus data in and out per GB plus storage per GB-month, and closes its rate table with an 'Estimated Monthly Starting Cost' of $0, $385, $895 and $2,300 that turns an hourly unit into a budget number. Behind it sit two discount structures and an annual commitment that can be spent across the whole Confluent Cloud stack.
Datadog
$15/host/moDatadog publishes a rate card per product, with every billable SKU listed in a left-hand navigator from AI Credits to Workflow Automation. Infrastructure Monitoring prices per host across three host levels: Basic, set with sales, beside Pro starting at $ 15 and Enterprise at $ 23 billed annually, with on-demand rates printed beside them and allotments of containers, custom metrics and custom events attached to each paid host. The bill is the sum of the products a customer adopts, and Basic hosts let one account price noncritical workloads at their own level.
Grafana
$19/moGrafana Cloud prices on a $19 per month platform fee that carries an allowance on every product, then a usage meter chosen per product, with volume tiers that lower the marginal rate as a customer grows. The hero states the thesis, 'Send more, charge more is broken. We are changing it.', and the page backs it with an embedded calculator that draws the tier curve and a cost-reduction band under the rates. Enterprise prints its entry point: 'Starts at $25,000 / year spend commit'.
Modal
$250 + compute/moModal bills GPU, CPU, memory and storage by the second or month, and network egress at '$0.04 / GiB', with the full rate card under the promise of paying for 'just actual compute time, by the CPU cycle'. Plans are a platform fee plus that usage: Starter at $0 with $30 of monthly credits and 1 TiB of egress, Team at $250 with $100 and 10 TiB, and a custom Enterprise with 100 TiB. A worked comparison makes the serverless case on utilization, with a $3.95 GPU-hour that totals '12% lower cost' than $3 GPU-hours provisioned around the clock.
MongoDB
$0.011/hourMongoDB Atlas prices two product lines by the hour, each translated into a monthly figure. Atlas Core keeps Free at $0, Flex at $0.011 an hour with 'Up to $30/month', and Dedicated at $0.08 an hour that 'Starts at $56.94/month', while Atlas Infinite adds a public-preview tier at '$0.09 /hour' that 'starts at $65/month' for elastic AI workloads. Flex remains the design to study, a usage tier with a printed ceiling, and Infinite shows a premium tier layered on the same hourly meter.