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Machines (Shared CPU) · $5.92/mo (1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU)
Fly.io's $5.92/mo shared-CPU plan is competitively priced but faces stiff competition from providers with lower base rates and fewer hidden gotchas. IONOS Cloud VPS XS at $2/mo and Bluehost NVMe 2 at $2.09/mo offer dramatically lower entry prices with comparable or better specs, though both carry steep renewal penalties. For true apples-to-apples value on a 1vCPU/1GB instance, Linode Nanode and Liquid Web Compute 1 are closer peers with transparent pricing.
Offers 2GB RAM, 50GB NVMe SSD, and unmetered bandwidth for $2.09/mo, beating Fly.io on storage and RAM at 65% discount.
Caveat: Renewal price jumps to $9.99-$15.99/mo after intro term; requires 36-month upfront commitment to hit advertised rate.
Matches Fly.io's 1vCPU/1GB spec with 30GB SSD and 1TB transfer at $5/mo, plus transparent renewal pricing and 100% uptime SLA.
Caveat: Advertised price is frequently promotional (50% off first 2 months); renewal pricing is meaningfully higher than teaser rate.
Identical 1vCPU/1GB/1000GB transfer at $5/mo with 25GB SSD, strong 99.99% SLA, and no per-second billing complexity.
Caveat: Backups are a separate add-on (roughly 20-25% surcharge); bandwidth overages billed at $0.005/GB after allowance exhausted.
Delivers 1vCPU/1GB/10GB SSD at $3.50/mo with industry-leading 99.999% SLA and no region-based price premiums.
Caveat: Backup add-ons carry steep surcharges (10-60% depending on frequency); data transfer overages possible despite 'fair use' marketing.
Before you switch
| Vultr | Cloud Compute · Regular 1vCPU/0.5GB | $2.5/mo | 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB | Visit |
| InMotion Hosting | Shared Hosting · Core | $2.99/mo | 512 MB RAM, 100 GB SSD | Visit |
| AWS Lightsail | Virtual Servers · GP 0.5GB (Linux, IPv6) | $3.5/mo | 512 MB RAM, 2 vCPU, 20 GB SSD | Visit |
| UpCloud | Cloud Servers - Starter · STARTER-1xCPU-1GB | $3.5/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB Standard SSD | Visit |
| Microsoft Azure | Virtual Machines · B1ls | $3.8/mo | 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU | Visit |
| Namecheap | VPS Hosting · Spark | $3.88/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD | Visit |
| DigitalOcean | Droplets · Basic 512MB | $4/mo | 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB SSD | Visit |
| Kamatera | Cloud VMs · Type A base (Availability, 1 vCPU/1GB) | $4/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20 GB NVMe SSD | Visit |
| Alibaba Cloud | Simple Application Server · economy-e-2c-0.5g | $4.55/mo | 512 MB RAM, 2 vCPU, 40 GB SSD | Visit |
| IONOS | VPS Hosting (VPS+) · VPS S+ | $5/mo | 2 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 90 GB NVMe | Visit |
| Liquid Web | VPS Hosting · Compute 1 | $5/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 30 GB SSD | Visit |
| Linode (Akamai) | Shared CPU Compute · Nanode 1 GB | $5/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB SSD | Visit |
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