What's good about...
Fly.io
- 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
Hetzner
- 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
How do Fly.io's prices compare against Hetzner?
VM Small
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VM Medium
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VM Large
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Block Storage
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Object Storage
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Load Balancer
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Managed PostgreSQL
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Managed Redis®*
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Free egress allowance
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance
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GPU Fleet Overview
Billing Options
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On-Demand
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Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Fly.io and Hetzner offer:
Company details
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|---|---|---|
| Website | fly.io | hetzner.com |
| Headquarters |
United States of America 
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Germany 
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| Founded | 2017 | 1997 |
| Data Center Locations | 18 | 6 |
| Example Customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase | Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Aug. 24, 2026, and for Hetzner on Aug. 31, 2026.