Fly.io
vs
Hexabyte
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
- Affordable VPS instances with customizable specs
- S3-compatible object storage with no egress or API fees
- Offers dedicated servers
- EU-based with GDPR-friendly data storage
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Fly.io | Hexabyte | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x) | $4.37 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe | 23% cheaper on Hexabyte |
| Medium VM | $42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x) | $11.03 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe | 74% cheaper on Hexabyte |
| Large VM | $248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x) | $19.91 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 160 GB NVMe | 92% cheaper on Hexabyte |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $20.50 /mo 1 TB (Tigris) | $6.78 /mo 1 TB (no egress or API fees) | 67% cheaper on Hexabyte |
| 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 | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 20 TB / mo per instance | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe) | $1.13 /TB per TB | 94% cheaper on Hexabyte |
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
Hexabyte offers 1 GPU model. We track no GPU listings from Fly.io. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Fly.io | Hexabyte | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
L4
4 configs
|
-- | $0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hexabyte only |
Hexabyte 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.
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 | Hexabyte |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | USA | Sweden |
| Locations | 18 | 1 |
| Example customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase | Molnett, Region Västerbotten, Umeå Kommunföretag, Enduce |
| Website | fly.io | hexabyte.se |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Hexabyte on Sept. 18, 2026.