Side by side

AWS App Runner vs Fly.io

Both stand on cloud platform as a service (paas) software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Fly.io offers application compute alongside managed Postgres and persistent environments for agent workloads. Trial limits and separate storage and egress charges are important to account for when planning use.

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The facts

	AWS App Runner	Fly.io
Free plan	No	A free trial
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	API, Web	API, Linux, Web
Lowest paid plan	See the plans	See the plans
Plans published	1	6
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	aws.amazon.com	fly.io
On cloud platform as a service (paas) software	#24 of 31	#20 of 31

AWS App Runner: what it does well

Fly.io: what it does well

Fly Machines run containerized applications and other code
Global private network routes toward nearby machines
Managed Postgres includes backups and connection pooling
Deployment rollback is available
Community support is available to all customers

What to know first

No free plan
Trial ends after 2 VM hours or 7 days
Storage and egress are priced separately
Dedicated IPv4 is excluded from the trial

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