On 1 October 2026 Fly.io raised the price of Machine RAM from $5 to $6 per GB per month. In practice every Machine now costs $1 more per month for each GB of RAM it has. The smallest always-on Machine (shared-cpu-1x, 256 MB) went from $1.94 to $2.19 in Ashburn (iad) and from $2.02 to $2.28 in Amsterdam. A 1 GB Machine went from $5.70 to $6.70 in iad. Volumes, egress, snapshots and IPv4 prices did not change. The regional price differences in Europe are not new: they date from July 2024.
Conflict of interest, stated up front: I run Hostim.dev, a flat-priced container host in Germany. A price rise at Fly is good news for me. So every Fly number below links to Fly's own page or to an archived copy of it, and the comparison at the end says where Fly is the better choice.
What changed in Fly.io pricing on 1 October 2026?
Fly announced the change on its 2026 Pricing Update page, subtitled "Effective October 1, 2026". The page was posted on Hacker News on 21 September 2026. The two key sentences are:
- every Machine "takes more RAM at $6.00 per GB per month, up to 128GB"
- "Machine CPU pricing is unchanged."
I compared the current pricing page with the archived copy from 10 September 2026. This is what moved:
| Item | Before 1 Oct 2026 | After 1 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Additional RAM | $5.00 / GB / month | $6.00 / GB / month |
shared-cpu-1x 256 MB, iad |
$1.94 | $2.19 |
shared-cpu-1x 256 MB, ams |
$2.02 | $2.28 |
shared-cpu-1x 1 GB, iad |
$5.70 | $6.70 |
shared-cpu-2x 2 GB, iad |
$11.39 | $13.39 |
| Volumes | $0.15 / GB / month | unchanged |
| Snapshots | $0.08 / GB / month, first 10 GB free | unchanged |
| Egress, North America and Europe | $0.02 / GB | unchanged |
| Dedicated IPv4 | $2.00 / month | unchanged |
Why did the 256 MB Machine go up if CPU is "unchanged"?
This confused me at first. A 256 MB shared-cpu-1x has no "additional" RAM, so a RAM price change should not touch it. But it went up by $0.25 in iad.
The numbers add up if you read the change as "all RAM is now $6 per GB, including the 256 MB that comes with each shared vCPU". 0.25 GB × $1 = $0.25. The same rule explains every row above: the 1 GB Machine went up $1.00 and the 2 GB Machine went up $2.00. Fly's pricing page computes prices with a per-second formula, and the shared CPU rate in it moved from 0.00000075 to 0.0000008465 dollars per second. That difference is exactly $0.25 a month: the $1 per GB increase applied to the bundled 256 MB (0.25 GB × $1).
So the short version is accurate: each Machine costs $1 more per GB of RAM per month, counting the base RAM. The phrase "CPU pricing is unchanged" is true only if you count the bundled 256 MB as RAM, not as CPU.
How much is a Fly.io Machine in 2026?
These are 30-day prices for a Machine that runs all month. I computed them with the formula and region multipliers on Fly's pricing page, checked on 14 October 2026. Fly's page shows the same values when you pick a region.
| Preset | iad (US) | ams / arn | cdg / lhr | fra |
|---|---|---|---|---|
shared-cpu-1x 256 MB |
$2.19 | $2.28 | $2.49 | $2.53 |
shared-cpu-1x 512 MB |
$3.69 | $3.84 | $4.19 | $4.26 |
shared-cpu-1x 1 GB |
$6.70 | $6.95 | $7.60 | $7.73 |
shared-cpu-1x 2 GB |
$12.70 | $13.19 | $14.41 | $14.65 |
shared-cpu-2x 2 GB |
$13.39 | $13.91 | $15.20 | $15.45 |
performance-1x 2 GB |
$33.00 | $34.27 | $37.44 | $38.08 |
performance-2x 4 GB |
$66.00 | $68.54 | $74.89 | $76.16 |
Fly bills per second. A Machine that is stopped costs $0.15 per GB of root filesystem per month, not the full price. If your app can scale to zero, your bill can be much lower than this table.
Fly's own examples on the same page: the "smallest always-on app" (256 MB in iad plus 1 GB egress) is $2.21 a month. A "small web app with Managed Postgres" (512 MB Machine, 10 GB volume, Managed Postgres Basic, 1 GB database storage, 10 GB egress) is $43.67 a month. Most of that is the database.
What does Managed Postgres cost on Fly.io?
From the pricing update page:
| Plan | Machine | Price / month |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | shared-2x, 1 GB | $38 |
| Starter | shared-2x, 2 GB | $72 |
| Launch | performance-2x, 8 GB | $282 |
| Scale | performance-4x, 32 GB | $962 |
| Performance | performance-8x, 64 GB | $1,922 |
Storage is $0.28 per GB on top. If you run Postgres yourself on a Fly Machine instead, Fly's pricing page estimates about $2 a month for a single-node dev setup and $82–$164 a month for a three-node production cluster.
What does Fly.io cost in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, London and Stockholm?
Fly has five regions in Europe: Amsterdam (ams), Stockholm (arn), Paris (cdg), Frankfurt (fra) and London (lhr). There is no region in Madrid, Warsaw or Bucharest.
Each region has a multiplier on the US price. Amsterdam and Stockholm are about 3.8% more than iad, Paris and London about 13.5% more, Frankfurt about 15.4% more. Frankfurt is the most expensive Fly region in Europe.
Three example setups, before and after the change (USD per month):
(a) One small always-on app, shared-cpu-1x 256 MB
| Region | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| ams | $2.02 | $2.28 |
| lhr | $2.21 | $2.49 |
| fra | $2.24 | $2.53 |
(b) One app, 1 GB, plus a 10 GB volume and Managed Postgres Basic with 1 GB storage
| Region | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| ams | $45.70 | $46.73 |
| lhr | $46.24 | $47.38 |
| fra | $46.35 | $47.51 |
(c) Two apps, shared-cpu-2x 2 GB each, plus 100 GB egress
| Region | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| ams | $25.66 | $29.82 |
| lhr | $27.86 | $32.39 |
| fra | $28.30 | $32.91 |
The percentage rise depends on how much RAM you use. Setup (b) rose only 2–3%, because the $38 database price did not change. Setup (c) rose about 16%, because it is mostly RAM. RAM-heavy apps (Node.js, Java, Rails with Sidekiq) feel this change the most.
I could not find whether Fly adds EU VAT to its USD prices at checkout. Neither pricing page says.
Are Fly.io's regional prices new?
No. Region-specific Machine pricing started on 1 July 2024. The multipliers in the January 2026 archive are identical to the ones on the current page. The October 2026 change only moved the RAM rate.
Did Render change its prices too?
Yes, on the same day, but downward and only for Key Value (Redis-compatible) instances. Render's changelog from 1 October 2026 cut the price of every Key Value plan with 1 GB of RAM or more, and added two new plans.
| Plan | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | $32 | $20 |
| 3 GB | (new) | $60 |
| 5 GB | $135 | $100 |
| 10 GB | $250 | $200 |
| 20 GB | $550 | $350 |
| 40 GB | $1,100 | $600 |
| 50 GB | (new) | $750 |
Sources: the archived Render pricing page from 19 September 2026 and the current one. For how Render, Railway and Fly charge in general, see Render vs Railway vs Fly.io pricing.
When is Fly.io still the right choice?
Fly is good at things a flat-priced host does not do:
- Many regions. You can run the same app close to users on several continents. If your users are in São Paulo, Tokyo and Frankfurt, Fly is built for that.
- Scale to zero. Stopped Machines cost almost nothing. For apps that sit idle most of the day, per-second billing beats any monthly plan.
- Tiny always-on workers. At $2.19–$2.53 a month, a 256 MB Machine is still very cheap for a bot or a small queue worker.
When is a flat EU host cheaper?
When the app runs all month, uses 1 GB of RAM or more, and its users are in Europe. The $1-per-GB change hits exactly that case, and the managed database is often the biggest line on the bill.
For comparison, the same setups on Hostim (EUR, before VAT, egress included):
| Setup | Fly.io, fra, after | Hostim |
|---|---|---|
| (a) small always-on app | $2.53 | €2.50 (1 GB RAM, the smallest plan) |
| (b) 1 GB app + volume + Postgres | $47.51 | €8.50 with shared Postgres (1 GB storage), €32.50 with a dedicated Postgres instance |
| (c) two 2 GB apps + 100 GB egress | $32.91 | €9.00 |
This is not a like-for-like comparison, and I want to be clear about where it differs. Hostim runs in one region (Germany). Its shared Postgres is a database on a shared server, not a dedicated machine like Fly's Managed Postgres Basic; the dedicated plan starts at €25. Hostim has no scale-to-zero. Our prices are on the pricing page.
If you want more options, we keep a list of alternatives to Fly.io and a comparison of PaaS platforms with flat, predictable pricing. I wrote about why per-second bills grow over time in usage-based pricing creep.
Sources
All pages read on 14 October 2026.
- Fly.io pricing page, current: https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/
- Fly.io 2026 Pricing Update: https://fly.io/pricing-update/
- Fly.io pricing page, archived 10 September 2026: http://web.archive.org/web/20260910104728/https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/
- Fly.io pricing page, archived 17 September 2026 (last copy before the change): http://web.archive.org/web/20260917184311/https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/
- Fly.io pricing page, archived January 2026: http://web.archive.org/web/20260110122553/https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/
- Fly community, Region-specific Machines pricing (July 2024): https://community.fly.io/t/region-specific-machines-pricing/20690
- Hacker News thread, 21 September 2026: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793409
- Render changelog, 1 October 2026: https://render.com/changelog/added-two-key-value-plans-and-lowered-prices-for-larger-existing-plans
- Render pricing page, archived 19 September 2026: http://web.archive.org/web/20260919091936/https://render.com/pricing
FAQ
How much does Fly.io cost per month in 2026?
The smallest always-on Machine (shared-cpu-1x, 256 MB) costs $2.19 a month in Ashburn (iad), $2.28 in Amsterdam and $2.53 in Frankfurt. A 1 GB Machine costs $6.70 in iad and $7.73 in Frankfurt. Additional RAM is $6 per GB per month since 1 October 2026.
Did Fly.io raise prices in 2026?
Yes. On 1 October 2026 the RAM price went from $5 to $6 per GB per month. Every Machine now costs $1 more per GB of RAM, including the 256 MB that comes with each shared vCPU. Volumes, egress, snapshots and IPv4 did not change.
Which Fly.io region in Europe is cheapest?
Amsterdam (ams) and Stockholm (arn), at about 3.8% above the US iad price. Paris and London are about 13.5% above, and Frankfurt about 15.4% above.
Does Fly.io still have a free tier?
No. Fly's pricing page says new organizations have no free tier and no monthly free usage allowance. Some small items are still free, for example the first 10 GB of snapshot storage per month and the first 10 single-hostname SSL certificates.
How much is Fly.io Managed Postgres?
Basic is $38 a month (shared-2x, 1 GB RAM), Starter $72, Launch $282, Scale $962 and Performance $1,922. Storage costs $0.28 per GB on top.
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Originally published at hostim.dev/blog/fly-io-pricing-2026. Last updated: October 2026.
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