Any language. No fly.toml. Managed in the EU.
Fly.io's pitch is run-your-app-everywhere-at-the-edge, with machines you size and configure yourself. velixir takes a different tack: you push your source in any language, we build and run it in the EU, and managed Postgres and Valkey cost a fraction of Fly's.
Why teams switch from Fly.io to velixir
The specific reasons, not generic ones.
- Managed Postgres from €4.95/mo. Fly's Managed Postgres starts at $38/mo plus storage.
- A free tier that sleeps when idle, and first-month credit. Fly has no free allowance for new organisations, only a short trial.
- No fly.toml to write and no machines to size. Pick a plan and push.
- Hands-on founder support, plus EU-only hosting.
Side-by-side
Pricing checked October 2026. Specs reflect the closest equivalent plan in each direction.
| Dimension | velixir | Fly.io |
|---|---|---|
|
Smallest always-on tier
Fly is cheaper at the very bottom, with half the memory.
|
€3.49/mo (Hobby, 0.5 vCPU / 512 MB) | about $2.53/mo (shared-cpu-1x, 256 MB, Frankfurt) |
|
1 GB class
|
€6.95/mo (Starter, 1 vCPU / 1 GB) | about $7.73/mo (shared-cpu-1x, 1 GB, Frankfurt) |
|
Build path
fly launch can generate a Dockerfile for known frameworks.
|
Any language, no Dockerfile | Dockerfile, buildpacks or a prebuilt image |
|
Managed Postgres
|
Built-in, from €4.95/mo | Managed Postgres, from $38/mo (1 GB) plus $0.28/GB storage |
|
Managed Redis / Valkey
|
Valkey, first-party, from €2.45/mo | Upstash Redis (partner), from $10/mo for 250 MB |
|
Sign-up trial
|
Free tier (sleeps) plus first-month credit | Trial of 2 machine-hours or 7 days |
|
Operating model
Most teams don't want to tune machines.
|
Managed: pick a plan, push | Self-serve machines you size and configure |
|
Roll back a bad release
Both fast; ours is the default UI affordance.
|
One click from deploy history | `fly releases rollback` |
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Pricing model
velixir is euro-first.
|
Hourly EUR | Per-second USD, varying by region |
|
Bandwidth / egress
No per-GB meter to watch.
|
Unmetered, no egress fees | $0.02/GB in Europe and North America |
Same workload, both sides
A 1 GB web app in Frankfurt, managed Postgres, and a 1 GB cache.
- shared-cpu-1x, 1 GB (Frankfurt)
- $7.73
- Managed Postgres Basic (1 GB)
- $38.00
- 10 GB Postgres storage
- $2.80
- Upstash Redis fixed, 1 GB
- $20.00
- Per month
- $68.53
- Starter app (1 vCPU / 1 GB)
- €6.95
- Standard Postgres (1 vCPU / 2 GB)
- €17.95
- Standard Valkey (0.5 vCPU / 1 GB)
- €8.95
- Per month
- €33.85
At the ECB reference rate of €1 = $1.1206 (9 October 2026), velixir's €33.85 is about $37.93 a month: roughly 45% less than $68.53.
velixir's Standard Postgres has 2 GB of RAM and 25 GB of storage against Fly's 1 GB and 10 GB.
List prices before tax, for a month of continuous running. Fly.io prices checked October 2026 on its own pricing pages; velixir prices are today's.
Like Fly's deploy speed, not fond of fly.toml? Try velixir.
Push your code via Git or CLI. velixir builds, publishes, and deploys it in EU Central, inside the EU, in under two minutes. No Docker, no YAML soup - and your first month's on us, up to €14.99.
No card needed to sign up or to deploy. Add one when you want the first-month credit.