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Infrastructure economics

Fly.io Pricing in 2026: The Real 30-Day Bill

Fly.io pricing in 2026 is pure pay-as-you-go: you pay per second for the Machines (micro-VMs) you actually run, not a fixed plan. A small always-on app on a shared-cpu-1x 256MB Machine costs about $2.02 a month; a two-Machine production SaaS with Postgres and Redis lands near $29 a month; a three-region app on performance Machines runs about $226 a month. The old Hobby, Launch, and Scale plan names were retired in the October 2024 pay-as-you-go switch, and the biggest lever left is a machine reservation, which cuts committed compute by 40%.

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Infrastructure economics

Railway Pricing in 2026: What You Actually Pay

Railway pricing in 2026 is usage-based: you pay $20 per vCPU and $10 per GB of RAM per month, billed by the second, plus $0.05 per GB of egress and $0.15 per GB of volume storage. Hobby is $5 a month with $5 of usage included; Pro is $20 a month per workspace, not per seat, with unlimited seats and $20 of usage included. There is no permanent free tier, only a 30-day $5 trial, so a small always-on app runs about $5 to $22 a month and a modest production stack near $70.

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