Render vs Amazon EC2 vs Fly.io

Customers say Render is easy to deploy to and praise a free plan and predictable pricing, which suits hobby projects and small apps.

Users mostly praise Amazon EC2 for low cost, especially with spot instances or reserved capacity, and for steady uptime on long-running servers.

Easy, cheap deploys for small apps; the main downsides are past outages and hands-on database setup.

• easy to use8
• good free plan5
• reliable5

• great value7
• reliable6
• easy to use2

• easy to use4
• great value2
• easy migration1

• slow4
• poor support2
• hidden fees1

• outages8
• hidden fees3
• surprise bill3

• outages4