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Fly.io Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026

Fly.io is pay-as-you-go: you pay for the compute and bandwidth you use, with fixed add-ons like $29/mo support and $99/mo HIPAA compliance on top.

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Fly.io plans and pricing

High· Verified July 8, 2026

Plan

Support

Teams needing dedicated engineers

$29/mo

Email support with 36-hour response SLA

Technical guidance on architecture

Full access to Fly.io infrastructure and features

Access to our dedicated team of engineers

Choose Support

Plan

HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA-regulated workloads

$99/mo

Everything needed for HIPAA-compliant workloads

Business Associate Agreements (BAAs)

SOC2s

Choose HIPAA Compliance

Custom

Pay-as-you-go

Everyone

Custom

Contact sales

Custom

Reservations

Cost-optimizing teams

Custom

Everything needed for HIPAA-compliant workloads

Business Associate Agreements (BAAs)

SOC2s

Contact sales

Custom

Enterprise

Large/custom workloads

Custom

Everything needed for HIPAA-compliant workloads

Business Associate Agreements (BAAs)

SOC2s

Contact sales

Fly.io pricing: the quick answer

Quick answerHigh· Verified July 8, 2026

Fly.io does not sell fixed plan tiers. It bills usage as of July 8, 2026: you pay for the micro VMs, storage, and networking you run, and the per-resource rates live in a separate calculator, not the plans page. There is a free allowance, and the fixed costs are add-ons on top: paid support starts at $29 a month, HIPAA compliance is $99 a month, and machine reservations trade an upfront commitment for 40% off compute. Model it in the calculator, because the plan page alone gives no monthly number.

Support$29/mo
HIPAA Compliance$99/mo
Pay-as-you-goCustom
ReservationsCustom
EnterpriseCustom

Run your numbers in the cost calculator: pick a plan and compare monthly against annual billing.

Free tier

Yes

Billing model

Usage-Based

Cheapest paid

$29/mo

Annual discount

Not offered

At $29/mo to start, Fly.io sits 164% above the $11/mo median across 19 cloud hosting tools we track.

Fly.io cost calculator

Fly.io Hidden Costs & Pitfalls

What sits on top of the plan fee

There is no plan fee to anchor on. The predictable costs are the add-ons that sit on top of pay-as-you-go compute.

Paid support

Serious Support with dedicated engineers starts at $29 a month, separate from your compute bill. It also carries a refund policy for accidental deployments, so a bad CI/CD push or a mistaken scale command can be credited back. Free-tier and unpaid accounts do not get that safety net.

starting at $29/mo

HIPAA compliance

Running regulated health data means adding HIPAA compliance at $99 a month, which covers the BAAs and SOC2 controls. That is a flat line item on top of usage, so a small workload that would otherwise cost a few dollars in compute effectively starts near $99 a month once compliance is required.

$99/mo

Machine reservations

Reserving machine capacity up front cuts 40% off the on-demand compute rate. It pays off for steady, predictable workloads and costs you flexibility if usage swings, since you have prepaid for capacity whether or not you burn it. Weigh it only after you know your baseline from the calculator.

40% off on-demand

The renewal jump, credit expiry and every discount worth having are in the Fly.io true cost guide, with an email generator for negotiating team and enterprise rates.

Fly.io Cost Analysis

Fly.io pricing, read against its live plans and category

Checked against current plan data

Positioning

$29/moentry price

164% above the category median

low $0.83median $11 · n=19high $35

While most competitors offer a free tier, Fly.io's entry-level Hobby plan starts at $5/mo, with a significant jump to $29/mo for Support. However, this entry price is highly deceptive because any production-grade deployment requires upgrading to paid support tiers like Support at $29/mo or Premium Support at $199/mo just to get guaranteed response times. For healthcare applications, the mandatory HIPAA Compliance add-on adds a steep $99/mo surcharge. While it offers cheap experimentation, scaling on Fly.io quickly becomes expensive compared to traditional VPS hosting.

Cost drivers

1Overage charges on outbound data transfer exceeding the 160 GB Hobby plan limit.
2Granular usage-based fees for incremental CPU, RAM, and persistent volume storage beyond the base allocations.
3Mandatory support plan fees ($29/mo to $199/mo) required to access SLA-backed technical assistance.

Watch-outs

The platform's highly granular, usage-based billing model makes monthly expenses unpredictable and difficult to budget. Users frequently report unexpected bills due to complex pricing structures spanning machines, volumes, and bandwidth, alongside a lack of robust billing thresholds.

Strengths

The Hobby plan at $5/mo offers runs full-stack apps, not just static sites, on the edge.

Runs full-stack apps, not just static sites, on the edge
Uses lightweight Firecracker MicroVMs for better isolation
Built-in global request routing and private networking

What users say

“Fly.io”

s pricing can be confusing since it's fully usage-based." - Reddit

“problems started appearing as we scaled.”

Editor’s take

Individual developers and hobbyists should stick to the $5/mo Hobby plan for lightweight projects, but scaling businesses must budget for the $29/mo Support plan at minimum. If you need predictable monthly billing without complex usage-based calculations, choose Cloudways at $14.70/mo as a more stable alternative.

Oleh KemFounder & Lead Analyst

ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 8, 2026

Fly.io price history

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