Fly.io
vs
Hetzner
What's good about each
- Excellent tooling and developer experience
- Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
- Per-second billing, with a 40% discount for reserved compute blocks
- Anycast networking and global load balancing included at no extra cost
- High performance VPS configurations at affordable prices (shared, high memory, dedicated CPU)
- Easy to use web console & developer tooling (Terraform SDKs, official CLI)
- EU-based company, may simplify GDPR compliance for some
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Fly.io | Hetzner | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x) | $6.77 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX23) | 16% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Medium VM | $42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x) | $10.16 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX33) | 76% cheaper on Hetzner |
| Large VM | $248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x) | $18.63 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX43) | 92% cheaper on Hetzner |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | $4.97 /mo 100 GB | 67% cheaper on Hetzner |
| Object storage | $20.50 /mo 1 TB (Tigris) | $7.33 /mo 1 TB | 64% cheaper on Hetzner |
| PostgreSQL | $86.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Starter) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $20.00 /mo 1 GB data (Upstash Fixed 1GB) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | Included with apps | $8.46 /mo LB11 | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 1-60 TB / mo per instance | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe) | $1.13 /TB €1 / TB | 94% cheaper on Hetzner |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Hetzner offers 2 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Fly.io. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Fly.io | Hetzner | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
-- | $2.17 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hetzner only |
|
RTX 4000 SFF Ada
1 config
|
-- | $0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hetzner only |
Hetzner bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Fly.io | Hetzner |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | -- |
| ISO 27001 | Data centers only | Yes |
| HIPAA | Yes | -- |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Card payments only |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Fly.io | Hetzner |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 1997 |
| Headquarters | USA | Germany |
| Locations | 18 | 6 |
| Example customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase | Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc |
| Website | fly.io | hetzner.com |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Hetzner on Sept. 18, 2026.