Faable Deploy vs Fly.io

Short answer: Fly.io is infrastructure you configure; Faable Deploy is a platform that configures itself. On Fly.io you write a fly.toml, size machines, pick regions and pay for each of them by the second. On Faable you push to GitHub and your app is live — built, served over SSL, behind a Web Application Firewall, with Faable Auth in the same subscription, on a permanent free plan or a fixed monthly fee in EUR, and 100% hosted in Europe under GDPR.

Quick comparison

	Faable Deploy	Fly.io
Getting an app live	Push to GitHub — zero config	`fly launch`, `fly.toml`, CLI deploys
Language detection	✅ Node.js, Python, PHP; Dockerfile on Hobby+	Dockerfile or generated config
Permanent free plan	✅ no card, no expiry	❌ time-limited trial
Pricing model	Fixed fee per project: 0 €, 15 €, 99 €/month	Pay-as-you-go per machine, volume, IP and GB
Traffic billing	Included; only Pro meters beyond 100 GB	Egress billed per GB
Scale to zero and wake on request	✅ automatic	✅ configurable
Free automatic SSL	✅	✅
Built-in Web Application Firewall	✅ edge firewall, every plan	❌ bring your own
Bundled identity / auth (OAuth 2.0, OIDC)	✅ Faable Auth, 15,000 MAU free	❌
Support	Email from platform engineers on Hobby and Pro	Community; paid support plans from $29/month
Low-level control (regions, machine types, private networking)	Abstracted away	✅ fine-grained
Company and infrastructure	🇪🇺 European	US company, EU regions available
Currency	EUR	USD

Competitor figures checked against Fly.io’s official pricing and docs in late September 2026. They change often — confirm on their pages before you decide.

Why teams pick Faable Deploy over Fly.io

Nothing to configure

There is no fly.toml, no machine size to choose and no region list to maintain. Faable detects Django, FastAPI, Flask, Express, Fastify, NestJS, Next.js, Astro, Vite, Laravel and plain PHP from your repository, builds them, and serves the result at https://<app>.faable.link — see What is zero-config CI/CD?. Every push to your deploy branch ships the same way, from the GitHub integration, your own CI or the CLI.

A bill you know in advance

Fly.io bills every running machine, volume, dedicated IPv4 address and gigabyte of egress, in USD. That is fair for infrastructure, but it means your invoice depends on how you sized things last month. Faable charges a fixed monthly fee per project, never per user — 15 €/month on Hobby with unlimited deployments, 50 GB of egress and Faable Auth with unlimited monthly active users. Free and Hobby never bill per GB. See Deploy pricing.

A free plan that does not expire

Fly.io replaced its free allowance with a short trial. Faable’s Free plan is permanent and needs no credit card: up to 3 projects, an instance per project, custom domains, 50 deployments a day and 10 GB of egress a month. Idle apps sleep after 30 minutes and wake on the next request in a few seconds; static sites are served with no container and no cold start at all.

Security and identity included

Every app is protected by a managed Web Application Firewall that blocks scanner traffic before it reaches your code — no proxy to deploy in front of your app. When you need sign-in, Faable Auth gives you hosted login, social and passwordless login, MFA, passkeys and machine-to-machine tokens in the same account.

European company, European infrastructure

Fly.io runs machines in European regions, but it is a US company. Faable is a European company: your apps and data are hosted in the EU, and your hosting and identity data sit with one European provider under one data-processing agreement. Support on Hobby and Pro comes directly from the engineers who build the platform — no support plan to buy.

Ready for AI apps and agents

Streaming responses can run for minutes — the only limit is 60 seconds to the first byte — and HTTP/3 is on by default. See Hosting AI agents in Europe, and let your coding agent manage deploys through the Faable MCP server.

When Fly.io might fit better

You need to place workloads in specific regions around the world and route between them yourself.
You run persistent volumes, long-running workers or custom networking and want to manage machines directly.

Last updated on November 3, 2026