Fly.io free-tier alternative with 96× the RAM
Fly.io was the darling of the indie-hacker world — until the free tier shrank to 3 tiny 256MB VMs and a two-week trial for anything bigger. Cheaploy deploys your app to your own Oracle Cloud account with 2 ARM Ampere CPUs and 12GB of RAM, always free.
Side-by-side
| Feature | Fly.io (Free floor) | Cheaploy + Oracle Always Free |
|---|---|---|
| vCPUs | 3 × shared-1x | 2 ARM Ampere |
| RAM per VM | 256 MB | 12 GB (shared across pods) |
| Storage | 3 GB total | 200 GB block |
| Egress | 100 GB / mo | 10 TB / mo |
| Postgres | Paid only after trial | 2× Autonomous DB, free indefinitely |
| Global regions | ~30 (edge) | 1 home region |
The right tool for the job
Fly's superpower is the edge network — if your users are global and 50ms matters, keep Fly. Cheaploy' superpower is raw resources: for anything backend-heavy (background jobs, LLM inference, data pipelines, self-hosted analytics), 12GB of free ARM RAM beats a fleet of 256MB micro-VMs every time.
Frequently asked
Can I run multi-region on Cheaploy like Fly?+
Not natively yet — Oracle Always Free is one home region per tenancy. Cheaploy supports secondary-region failover for paid Oracle accounts, and multi-region routing is on the roadmap.
Does Cheaploy have anycast IPs?+
No. Fly's edge network is genuinely a strength. If sub-100ms global latency is the product, stay on Fly. If you're serving mostly one region, Cheaploy gives you 96× the RAM and 40× the CPU for free.
What happens when Fly's trial ends?+
Anything beyond the 3-VM free floor requires a paid plan starting at $5/mo per VM. Cheaploy doesn't have a trial — the Oracle free tier is perpetual.
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