Fly.io vs Render.
monthly prices compared · prices as of · 9 shapes both sell
Fly.io is cheaper on 8 of the 9 shapes both sell, Render on 0, and 1 are level or have a free tier on one side. Fly.io gives you a machine of your own, started and stopped in a second; Render takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you. The two catalogues overlap without matching. The widest gap is 4 gb of memory, $21.40/mo at Fly.io against $85/mo.
Fly.io is cheaper on 8 of the 9 shapes both sell, read 17 Sept 2026.
Fly.ioall 47 prices →It gives you a machine of your own, started and stopped in a second.
starts at $1.94/mo for shared-cpu-1x · 256 MB
Renderall 17 prices →It takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you.
starts at $7/mo for 0.5c-512mb · 0.5 vCPU · 512 MB
Every shape both sell, at each one's price
Runtimes with the same stated memory first, smallest first, then subscriptions at the same step of both ladders. A seat and a gigabyte are never put in the same row. Where one side of a row costs nothing, neither is marked as the cheaper: free is a limit rather than a price.
Frequently asked
- Is Fly.io cheaper than Render?
- On the 9 shapes both sell, Fly.io is cheaper on 8, Render on 0, and 1 are level or have a free tier on one side. Prices exclude tax and were read on 17 Sept 2026.
- What is the difference between Fly.io and Render?
- Fly.io: You get a machine rather than a container: it boots in about a second, it stops when you stop it, and it costs nothing while it is stopped. That makes the monthly figure a ceiling rather than a bill, and it is the number this index carries, because a machine you leave running is what a month of hosting costs. Render: You push a repository or an image and the platform builds it, runs it and keeps it running. There is no operating system to look after and no root, which is the point: the container is replaced rather than repaired. What you size is memory and a share of a processor.
- Does Fly.io or Render stop your app when nothing calls it?
- Fly.io: it publishes no free tier. Render: its free tier sleeps when idle.
- What does each one charge on top of the plan price?
- Fly.io: transfer $0.02 per GB, builds not published, members not published. Render: transfer $0.15 per GB, builds $0.0050 per minute, members not published. A rate that is not published is not a rate of zero, and none of these is folded into the monthly figures above.
- How current are these prices?
- Both catalogues are read every day. Fly.io was last read 17 Sept 2026 and Render 17 Sept 2026; the whole index was refreshed 17 Sept 2026. Prices exclude tax, and a tier that costs nothing is listed here and is the cheaper of two nowhere.