Fly.io
vs
Vercel
Fly.io is optimized for distributed backend apps, while Vercel excels in frontend deployment and user experience.
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
- Superb developer experience, from git push to deployed globally in seconds
- First class support for Next.js and other frontend frameworks
- Great API to issue custom domains for SaaS projects
- Very active community and plenty of learning resources
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Fly.io | Vercel | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $20.50 /mo 1 TB (Tigris) | $23.90 /mo 1 TB (Vercel Blob) | 14% cheaper on Fly.io |
| 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 | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $153.85 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 100 GB (Hobby) to 1 TB (Pro) | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe) | $150.00 /TB $0.15 / GB (Fast Data Transfer) | 7.5x more expensive on Vercel |
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.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Fly.io | Vercel |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 2015 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 18 | 18 |
| Example customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase | Box, Runway, Sonos, eBay, The Washington Post |
| Website | fly.io | vercel.com |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Aug. 24, 2026, and for Vercel on July 27, 2026.