> Our pricing is confusing. Our free tier is even more confusing with execution hours. We initially offered carte blanche free compute, then added "verification" to curb abuse. This was further confusing, and to boot, abusers would end up gaming the system anyways!
From what I've noticed, Fly.io handles abuse in a different way.
- Require Credit Card on sign-ups.
- Always meter bandwidth (but 5x less than Railway: 0.02/GB after 160GB vs 0.10/GB).
Fly use to not require a credit card and could use the free tier. I setup a few instances just to trial about a year ago, about 6 months ago these instances started costing about $12 per month, I just logged in the other day to discover this. I feel now if I wanted to use their services they would back bill me for these test accounts I wasn’t using. Feel they could have notified me when they started charging so I could have shutdown the accounts.
From what I've noticed, Fly.io handles abuse in a different way.
- Require Credit Card on sign-ups.
- Always meter bandwidth (but 5x less than Railway: 0.02/GB after 160GB vs 0.10/GB).
- If Fly.io catches you running a VPN/Proxy, no free bandwidth for you; $10/mo minimum: https://community.fly.io/t/4896
- If everything's a-okay, no charges if monthly use is less than $5: https://community.fly.io/t/11133/7