I have a Legacy Hobby Plan and I know that there is an free allowance for me which is:
What I am not sure of is if the free 3 shared-cpu-1x 256mb VMs are applicable on any region.
Thanks.
My understanding is that this is now implemented as a $6/month credit, so some regions will consume it more quickly than others.
You can see this happening āliveāā in the Billing part of the dashboard, under Active Credits > Show breakdown.
Hope this helps!
ā Live-ish, anyway. I donāt know what the exact refresh/synch interval is, 
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Are the free allowances still available now that the legacy hobby plan is gone?
The Pay as You Go plan doesnāt have them, but most of the others still do.
(The only other exception that Iām aware of is the initial trial portion of the early-2024 Hobby Planābefore it shifts you into its $5/month phase.)
In terms of new signups, though, theyāre only available with plans that carry a ā„$29/month commitment. This makes them a little vestigialā¦
Iām super confused by the change in billing. I run a tiny app in a single region. I purchased credits to start off testing, early in 2024, but now itās eating my credits every monthā¦ I thought I read somewhere that they still dont bill < $5.00, but itās still eating my credits. It looks like Iām on the hobby plan. When I open the invoice, it shows $0.00, but still ate $5.00 of my credits.
Iām trying to figure out if Iām on the right plan or not.
Yea for some reason Fly decided to consume credits before the $5 threshold. Iām guessing some VC heads sitting on the board pushed for that decision (see the recent layoffs at Fly)
You actually might be better off on the Pay as You Go plan, but it depends on the details. For truly tiny deployments, the rough preference hierarchy is: Legacy Hobby Plan > Pay as You Go > early-2024 Hobby Plan.
Basically, the first one wasnāt viable (for continued enrollments) for Fly as a company, and the last wasnāt that popular with customers.
@khuezyās first sentence about the $5 waiver is unfortunately true, but you still might end up paying less. (Just not zero.)
(I doubt the speculative part, though; Iāve never worked with VCs myself, but Private Equity types, their close cousins, are remarkably non-detailed. The odds that one of them said, "My Chicago minions, you may keep the demonic goat with āSOC2ā branded on its hindquarters, if you must, but start consuming credits immediately," are close to nilā¦)
If you have the early-2024 Hobby Plan then the $5 is probably just the fee for the plan itselfāindependent of actual resource usage. The $0 might be the amount remaining after deducting from credits.
The most recent invoice should show a breakdown of various charges, or you could look on the Billing part of the dashboard under Preview Invoice to see how the current month is shaping upā¦
Youāre rightā¦ it looks like the $0 is the balance due after they take my credit. Looking at the billing detail, it looks like they charge me 0.40 for volumes, 0.02 for bandwidth and 4.07 for cpu which is pretty close that that $5 theyāre taking from my credits.
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