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Fly.io
Global VMs for apps and AI agents
PaidDeveloper ToolsSince 2017
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What Fly.io is
Runs containers on hardware in many regions, close to users. Now led by Sprites — hardware-isolated Linux VMs built for AI agents, with checkpointing and persistent filesystems — alongside the original app hosting, volumes and managed Postgres.
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Where Fly.io sits on price
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Fly.io pricing questions
- How much does Fly.io cost?
- Fly.io starts at $1.94 a month on its shared-cpu-1x · 256MB plan. That figure was read from fly.io's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
- Does Fly.io have a free plan?
- No. Fly.io does not publish an ongoing free plan.
- What is Fly.io used for?
- Runs containers on hardware in many regions, close to users. Now led by Sprites — hardware-isolated Linux VMs built for AI agents, with checkpointing and persistent filesystems — alongside the original app hosting, volumes and managed Postgres. People mainly use it to deploy a backend, run globally, host a database.
- What are the best alternatives to Fly.io?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are GitHub, Vercel, Supabase, Sentry. GitHub, Vercel, Supabase and Sentry publish a free plan.