Fly.ioperformance-8x · 8 dedicated vCPU · 16 GB
Micro-VMPerformance Machines
Fly.io performance-8x costs $248/mo for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and no disk, the priciest of the 32 micro-VMs we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$248/mo
$0.3444/hour
$15.50 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 0% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 84% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 dedicated> 87% of offers
- Disk
- none included · volumes extra> 0% of offers
- Bandwidth
- Not published
Micro-VM billed per second while running; the monthly price is Fly's figure for a full month · priced at Ashburn, US (cheapest), up to 62% more in other regions · no disk included (Fly Volumes extra) · egress metered per GB
Value score
13/100
- RAM · 16 GB
- 16.0
- vCPU · 8
- 12.0
- Disk · none included
- 0.0
- Traffic · not published, median 0 GB
- 0.0
- 28.0 points ÷ $248
- 0.11 per $
1 point per GB of RAM, 1.5 per vCPU, 1 per 25 GB of disk up to 500 GB (SSD × 0.8, HDD × 0.4), and 0.3 per TB of traffic up to 20 TB.
The score ranks 0.11 points per dollar against the 32 tracked micro-VMs, whose median is 0.33. A higher score means more machine for the money. It is computed within this kind only, so it can't be compared with a VPS value score.
Regions · 18
Data provenance
Fly.io · Live web · per-region Machine preset tables on fly.io/docs/about/pricing
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.
Where this sits in the market
At $248/mo, performance-8x · 8 dedicated vCPU · 16 GB is the priciest of the 32 micro-VMs in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $15.50/GB. For reference, the VPS market median is $5.42/GB, but a VPS is a different product, so treat that as context rather than a verdict. Its value score of 13/100 ranks it #28 among micro-VMs, and it is the 32nd cheapest of Fly.io's 32 tracked sizes.