Fly.io alternatives
Kofi Agyem, Founder and CEO, CloudzyroPublished · Updated
What to look for when you move off Fly.io, and how the main alternatives compare, from each company's own pricing pages.
| Feature | Cloudzyro | Fly.io |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Launch: free, business use included | None for new organizations; a trial of up to 2 hours of Machine runtime or 7 days |
| Paid plan | Boost: $20 a month per site, team members included | Pay as you go, no monthly platform fee; the smallest always-on Machine is $2.19 per 30 days |
| Over your traffic allowance | Slowed down, never taken offline or charged extra | Outbound data from $0.02 per GB in North America and Europe, up to $0.12 in Africa and India |
| Sites sleep when quiet | Never, on the free plan too | fly launch sets Machines to stop when idle; a cold start takes about 2 seconds or more |
Other companies' figures from Fly.io resource pricing, Fly.io: autostop and autostart Machines, Render: updated workspace plans, Render: free instances, Railway pricing, Heroku pricing, checked November 1, 2026. Prices change, so check their pages before you decide.
Why people look for a Fly.io alternative
Fly.io stopped selling its Hobby, Launch and Scale plans in October 2024, and new organizations have no free tier, only a short trial. Everything is billed by use, so the bill moves with each Machine, volume and GB of traffic. Apps made with fly launch also stop when idle by default, and a cold start takes about 2 seconds or more.
What to compare
Whether there's a free plan you can use for business, whether apps stay awake, whether the price is flat or usage-based, whether you need several regions, and whether your app needs a permanent disk or can keep its data in a database.
Render
Free web services spin down after 15 minutes without traffic. Paid instances start at $7 a month, Pro workspaces are $25 a month flat, and Postgres starts at $6 a month.
Railway
Also usage-based, but with a plan that includes usage: Hobby $5 or Pro $20 a month. Then about $20 a month per vCPU, $10 per GB of memory and $0.05 per GB of traffic.
Heroku
No free plan on its pricing page. Eco dynos are $5 a month and sleep after 30 minutes; Basic dynos are $7 a month and stay awake.
Cloudzyro
A flat price per site. Launch is free with business use allowed, 1 CPU, 512 MB and 100 GB of traffic, and it never sleeps. Boost is $20 a month per site with 2 CPUs, 2 GB of memory and 1 TB of traffic, and the team included. Traffic is never charged. Cloudzyro runs in London behind Cloudflare, not in many regions, and has no permanent disk.
Moving from Fly.io
A Node.js app with a build and a start script runs as it is, listening on the PORT environment variable we give it (on Fly.io, the port is set in fly.toml). Data on a Fly volume moves to a database such as Supabase or Neon. Connect your Git repository, add your secrets as environment variables, then point your domain at us.