Fly.io Pricing 2026: App and Machine Cost

Fly.io pricing in 2026 is usage-based and billed by the second while machines are running. Shared-cpu-1x (256 MB RAM, 1 shared CPU) is $0.0027/hour or $1.94/month per machine. Performance-1x (2 GB RAM, dedicated CPU) is $31/month per machine. Performance-16x (32 GB RAM) is $496/month per machine. Region multipliers range 1.000x in Virginia and New Jersey to 1.615x in Sao Paulo, 1.308x in Tokyo, and 1.269x in Singapore/Sydney. Volumes are $0.15/GB-month; snapshots $0.08/GB-month with the first 10 GB free. Egress is $0.02/GB for North America and Europe, $0.04/GB for Asia Pacific and Oceania, and $0.12/GB for Africa and India.

Managed Postgres runs Basic $38/month (1 GB) to Performance $1,922/month (64 GB). Reserved compute blocks deliver 40% savings for one-year commitments from $36/year shared-cpu-1x and $144/year performance-1x. Support tiers run Community free, Standard $29/month, Premium $199/month, Enterprise from $2,500/month. HIPAA compliance is a flat $99/month add-on (BAA pre-signed), the lowest-priced HIPAA tier among major PaaS.

Last verified: September 17, 2026. Pricing reflects the per-second billing model and 2026 region multipliers; the public pricing page was last revised in March 2026 with the addition of region-specific rates (Fly.io docs, 2026).

• Shared-cpu-1x (256 MB): $0.0027/hr, $1.94/mo - small apps, internal tools.
• Performance-1x (2 GB, dedicated CPU): $0.0431/hr, $31/mo - production web services.
• Performance-16x (32 GB): $0.6889/hr, $496/mo - large workloads.
• Region multipliers: 1.000x (Virginia) to 1.615x (Sao Paulo); volumes/egress unaffected.
• Egress: $0.02/GB NA/EU, $0.04/GB APAC/Oceania, $0.12/GB Africa/India.
• Volumes: $0.15/GB-mo persistent storage.
• Snapshots: $0.08/GB-mo (first 10 GB free).
• Managed Postgres: Basic $38, Starter $72, Launch $282, Scale $962, Performance $1,922/mo.
• Reserved compute: 40% off, from $36/yr shared-cpu-1x and $144/yr performance-1x.
• HIPAA: flat $99/mo add-on, BAA pre-signed.

Plan-by-plan breakdown

Fly.io does not sell tiered plans in the same way Heroku or Render do. Instead, you provision machines from a catalog of presets, each billed by the second while running. There are two machine families: shared-cpu (1x through 8x) for low-cost general workloads, and performance (1x through 16x) for production services that need dedicated CPU and consistent latency.

Shared-cpu machines range from shared-cpu-1x at $1.94/month (256 MB RAM, 1 shared CPU) to shared-cpu-8x at $15.56/month (2 GB RAM, 8 shared CPUs). Performance machines start at performance-1x (2 GB RAM, 1 dedicated CPU) at $31/month and scale to performance-16x (32 GB RAM, 16 dedicated CPUs) at $496/month. Additional RAM beyond the preset is $5/GB/month up to 128 GB.

Region multipliers apply to vCPU and RAM but not to volumes, snapshots, or egress. The cheapest regions are Secaucus (ewr) and Ashburn (iad) at 1.000x; the most expensive is Sao Paulo (gru) at 1.615x. APAC regions (Tokyo 1.308x, Singapore 1.269x, Sydney 1.269x) are notably more expensive than US-East, which makes regional deployment planning material for global apps (Fly.io pricing, September 2026).

Egress, volumes, and snapshots

Egress on Fly.io is region-aware: $0.02/GB for North America and Europe, $0.04/GB for Asia Pacific and Oceania, $0.12/GB for Africa and India. A startup running 10 TB/month of egress from US-East machines pays $200/month; the same workload from APAC machines pays $400/month; from Africa $1,200/month.

Volumes (persistent SSD block storage) are $0.15/GB-month regardless of region. A 100 GB volume costs $15/month; a 1 TB volume is $150/month. Snapshots are $0.08/GB-month for storage above the first 10 GB (which is free). A team backing up 500 GB of Postgres monthly snapshots pays $40/month for snapshot storage on top of the underlying volume cost (Fly.io pricing, September 2026).

Dedicated IPv4 addresses are $2/month per address. Shared IPv4 plus Anycast IPv6 are free per app. The choice between dedicated and shared IPv4 usually comes down to whether the destination service requires allowlisted IPs (some enterprise APIs, payment processors, and SMTP providers).

Reserved compute and Sprites

Fly.io reserved compute blocks deliver 40% savings over on-demand pricing for one-year commitments. Shared-cpu-1x reserved starts at $36/year ($3/month equivalent) vs $1.94/month on-demand billed annually; performance-1x reserved starts at $144/year ($12/month equivalent) vs $31/month on-demand. Reserved blocks are best for steady-state workloads where you can predict monthly utilization.

Sprites (launched in 2025) are an alternative compute primitive: no per-Sprite charge, billed only on active CPU and memory use. CPU is $0.07/CPU-hour and memory is $0.04375/GB-hour. Storage tiers include Hot ($0.50/GB-month, awake only) and Cold ($0.02/GB-month, persistent). Sprites are well-suited for short-lived agent workloads and ephemeral scripts where you do not want to provision a full machine.

Managed Postgres and HIPAA on Fly.io

Fly.io Managed Postgres is priced by cluster size: Basic $38/month (shared-2x, 1 GB RAM), Starter $72/month (2 GB), Launch $282/month (8 GB), Scale $962/month (32 GB), Performance $1,922/month (64 GB). All plans include HA, automated backups, and connection pooling. Storage is $0.28/GB prorated, with a 1 TB per cluster maximum.

HIPAA compliance on Fly.io is a flat $99/month add-on (BAA pre-signed), available on any paid plan including the cheapest Managed Postgres Basic cluster. This is the lowest-priced HIPAA tier among the major PaaS as of mid-2026: Heroku's HIPAA Shield starts at several hundred dollars per dyno, Render's HIPAA is gated behind Scale at $499/month, and Railway's HIPAA is Enterprise-only.

Support tiers are layered on top. Community support is free with no SLA. Standard at $29/month provides 36-hour first-response time and technical architecture guidance. Premium at $199/month adds 24-hour first response, 1-hour urgent SLA, dedicated Slack, and quarterly architecture reviews. Enterprise support starts at $2,500/month with 4-hour response 24x7, 15-minute emergency SLA, and 99.9% uptime SLA. The startup program offers up to $15,000 in credits for eligible early-stage companies.

How Fly.io compares to Render and Railway

Fly.io's main differentiator is global deployment: you can run machines in 17+ regions with health-check-based automatic failover. Render's regions are limited to a handful of US and EU data centers; Railway supports limited multi-region today. For globally distributed apps, Fly.io is the strongest choice.

On pure price, Fly.io is competitive but not always the cheapest. A 2 GB / 1 dedicated CPU machine on Fly.io performance-1x in Virginia is $31/month; the same workload on Render Standard is $25/month; on Railway Pro with usage of ~1 vCPU/2 GB, you typically see $30-40/month including the $20 workspace fee. Egress is where Fly.io wins at scale: $0.02/GB in NA/EU is lower than Render's $0.05/GB and Railway's $0.05/GB for the same regions (Fly.io pricing, September 2026).

What enterprise buyers should do next

1. Map your steady-state workloads to region multipliers before forecasting. A 50/30/20 US/APAC/EU traffic mix will land your average machine cost between 1.000x and 1.308x; do not assume the 1.000x headline rate.
2. If you process PHI, Fly.io's $99/month HIPAA add-on is the cheapest HIPAA tier in the PaaS market; pair it with Launch ($282/mo) or Scale ($962/mo) Postgres for production workloads.
3. For predictable steady traffic, buy reserved compute blocks (40% off, one-year terms) for the long-running services and run bursty workloads on-demand on Sprites or shared-cpu machines.

What to watch next

• Region multipliers in Sao Paulo (1.615x) and Tokyo (1.308x) are the biggest cost levers; expect downward pressure if Fly.io secures local infrastructure partnerships through 2026-2027.
• Sprites billing matured in 2025 and will likely introduce reserved tiers in 2026 to match the 40% savings on regular machines, which would change the cost math for agent and ephemeral workloads.
• HIPAA pricing at $99/month flat is unlikely to change; expect continued pressure on competitors to match the price floor.