What's good about...

Fly.io logo Fly.io

  • Excellent tooling and developer experience
  • Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
  • Wide range of instance configurations at competitive prices

Fly.io logo Heroku

  • Fully-managed infra, minimal ops overhead
  • Heroku Postgres is a one-click, battle-tested database
  • Extensive add-on marketplace

Price comparison

How do Fly.io's prices compare against Heroku?

Example configuration Fly.io Heroku
VM Small $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x) $50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X)
VM Medium $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x) $250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M)
VM Large $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x) $500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L)
Block Storage $15.00 / mo 100 GB --
Object Storage $21.00 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer Included in plan Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage $50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage
Managed Redis®* -- $200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance 100 GB / mo 2 TB / mo per app
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $20.00 $0.02 / GB (Public network North America) Not publicly listed Bandwidth is soft limited per app (2 TB / mo)

Fly.io offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
L40S 1x L40S 48GB -- -- $1.25 Source
A10 1x A10 24GB -- -- $1.50 Source
A100 40G PCIe 1x A100 40GB -- -- $2.50 Source
A100 80G SXM 1x A100 80GB -- -- $3.50 Source

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some managed services that Fly.io and Heroku offer:

Service Fly.io Heroku
Block Storage --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®* --
Object Storage --
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

Company details

Fly.io
Website fly.io
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch
Heroku
Website heroku.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2007
Data Center Locations 10
Example Customers Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify

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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Heroku on Nov. 12, 2024.