Fly.io runs apps as Firecracker microVMs in its own datacenters across many regions, billed per second. Quave ONE runs your apps and managed databases on our regions or in your own cloud account.
Facts checked on November 10, 2026, with a source link on every row.
Fly.io is a strong choice if you want low-level control, many regions close to users (including São Paulo), very cheap small machines, and pay-per-second billing. It has an official Meteor 3 guide, SOC 2 Type II and a HIPAA package.
Quave ONE is more of a managed platform: managed MongoDB, MySQL and Redis alongside Postgres, CPU and memory autoscaling run by the platform (enabled on request), and email support from our team without a support subscription. On Fly.io, email support starts at $29/month, metric autoscaling is an app you deploy yourself, and Fly says it is now focusing on Sprites for AI agents while keeping its app platform.
| Quave ONE | Fly.io | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Direct: usage-based, $7.50 per zCloud per month (0.5 vCPU + 0.5 GB RAM), billed hourly. Overage lines apply to disk above 5 GB per zCloud, backups above 30 GB per environment, and builds above 600 minutes per month. Connect: a platform license from $399/month, and you pay your cloud provider directly.Source | Pay as you go: Machines billed per second while running, no platform or seat fee. Egress, IPv4, volumes and support are billed separately.Source |
| Smallest always-on app | 1 zCloud (0.5 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM) for $7.50/month in standard regions (US-5, EU-3, BR-1), after a free Professional upgrade review. Logs, metrics, alerts, backups, MCP and support are included. EU-4 London is $26.50.Source | shared-cpu-1x with 256 MB RAM: $2.19 per 30 days in the cheapest regions; shared-cpu-1x with 1 GB: $6.70. Prices vary by region.Source |
| Free option | Hobby account: deploy apps and databases to the US-1 Hobby region to evaluate. No charge and no credit card. Not for production.Source | No free tier. New accounts get a $1 trial credit for 7 days; personal bills under $5/month are waived with a card on file.Source |
| Bandwidth | No extra network fees. In US-5, BR-1, EU-3 and EU-4, 10 GB of outbound traffic per zCloud per month is included; contact support if you need more.Source | Egress by region: $0.02/GB in North America and Europe, $0.04/GB in South America and Asia Pacific, $0.12/GB in Africa and India.Source |
| Managed databases | Managed MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ and ClickHouse, with managed backups kept 7 days by default. A single-node MongoDB starts at 1 zCloud ($7.50/month).Source | Managed Postgres from $38/month. Redis through Upstash. No managed MySQL or MongoDB; the Meteor guide recommends MongoDB Atlas for production.Source |
| Long-running apps and WebSockets | Long-running containers, so WebSockets work. Idle connections close after 60 seconds without data by default; keep-alive pings (such as Meteor DDP heartbeats) keep them open.Source | Machines are VMs that can run continuously. New apps default to auto-stop when idle, which adds cold starts unless you keep machines running.Source |
| Regions | Direct: Ashburn (US-5), Frankfurt (EU-3), London (EU-4) and São Paulo (BR-1). Connect: your own cloud account; the license covers one region and provider, more may cost extra.Source | 17 regions in the docs, including São Paulo (gru), Johannesburg, Tokyo and Sydney.Source |
| Run in your own cloud | Yes, with Connect: the same platform in your AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI account, or on-premise. 12-month minimum and a one-time setup fee.Source | Not documented. Fly.io runs on servers it operates.Source |
| Autoscaling | CPU- and memory-based autoscaling for app environments, enabled per account on request. Scale to zero is Connect-only.Source | Built-in autostop/autostart starts and stops existing Machines but never creates new ones. Metric-based autoscaling means deploying the fly-autoscaler app.Source |
| Logs and metrics | Included: logs kept 20 days, Grafana metrics, alerts to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, email or webhooks, and OpenTelemetry tracing (enabled per account).Source | Live logs; searchable logs kept 7 days; managed Prometheus metrics (about 15 days) with Grafana dashboards.Source |
| Preview environments | Branch previews per pushed branch with the Quave ONE CLI and GitHub Action, cleaned up after a TTL.Source | No built-in previews; docs show a GitHub Actions workflow for per-PR review apps.Source |
| Support | Email support, Monday to Friday, 9AM–5PM São Paulo time, usually answered within an hour. 24/7 on-call for infrastructure outages on every plan.Source | Community forum is free. Email support needs a paid plan: Standard $29/month (36-hour first response), Premium $199/month.Source |
| Compliance | Working towards SOC 2 (preparing for the audit). Customers with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications run on Quave ONE; with Connect, workloads stay in your own cloud account.Source | SOC 2 Type II. HIPAA package with a BAA for $99/month on any paid plan.Source |
| AI agents (MCP) | Remote MCP server included: AI clients can inspect logs, review deployments, manage environments and run approved Jobs, within your account permissions.Source | Official hosted MCP server (mcp.fly.io) for Sprites and Fly apps.Source |
Every fact on this page links to the public page it came from: our own docs for Quave ONE, and the vendor's own pricing or docs pages for everyone else. We checked them on November 10, 2026. Prices and features change, so check the source before you decide. If something here is wrong or out of date, email support@quave.one and we will fix it.