From dca43963200779020945896c2b09e6b1ac6587a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kristin Martin Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:06:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Move discontinued plan details to their own page The pricing and billing pages each carried sections on legacy Hobby, Launch, and Scale plans, including the free resource allowances those plans included. That content is only relevant to customers who bought a plan before October 7, 2024, but it sat alongside current pricing where new readers took it as an available free tier. Collect it all on a new Discontinued Plans page and link there from both pricing and billing. The new page is kept out of the side nav and out of the sitemap so it doesn't compete with the pricing page in search. Also drop the legacy free allowance clause from the volume billing section, which incorrectly listed Enterprise as discontinued for new customers alongside Launch and Scale. Enterprise support packages are still sold and priced on the pricing page. The volume snapshot free allowance mentioned under snapshot billing is unrelated to legacy plans and still applies to all customers, so it stays. --- about/billing.html.markerb | 16 ++----- about/discontinued-plans.html.markerb | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ about/pricing.html.markerb | 28 +----------- 3 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) create mode 100644 about/discontinued-plans.html.markerb diff --git a/about/billing.html.markerb b/about/billing.html.markerb index 70a293c9aa..a66f767b16 100644 --- a/about/billing.html.markerb +++ b/about/billing.html.markerb @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ For example, a Machine described in your dashboard as having 1GB of rootfs stopp ## Volume billing -Volume billing is pro-rated to the hour and we subtract the free allowances first for the Launch, Scale, and Enterprise plans (all of which are now discontinued for new customers). For details, see [Volume pricing](/docs/about/pricing/#persistent-storage-volumes). +Volume billing is pro-rated to the hour. For details, see [Volume pricing](/docs/about/pricing/#persistent-storage-volumes). If you create a volume, you will be charged for it. You're billed for volumes that aren't attached to Machines, and for volumes that are attached to Machines in any state, including stopped Machines. Volumes in `pending_destroy` state do not accrue charges. @@ -144,16 +144,6 @@ When you've completed the clean-up tasks, click **Delete** to permanently delete --- -## Discontinued/legacy plans +## Legacy plans -### Legacy Plan billing - -
-Customers who received a $5 free trial usage credit when signing up for the $5/mo Hobby plan will be billed monthly after that credit is used up. -
- -Legacy plan billing, and any included usage, is pro-rated over the month. For example, if you signed up for a Scale plan on September 15th, then you'd be charged $14.50 (half of the $29/mo plan cost) right away and you'll have $14.50 of usage included up to September 30th. Then you'll be charged $29 at the start of October and have $29/mo of usage included for that billing cycle. - -### Free resource allowances for Legacy Plan users - -Fly.io has deprecated plans as of October 7, 2024, but is still honoring them for users who purchased them prior to that date. If your plan includes [free allowances](/docs/about/pricing/#legacy-free-allowances), we subtract them off the top of your usage total. Once your usage exceeds the free allowance for any given resource, we start metering usage of that resource for billing purposes. +On a legacy plan and wondering how it's billed? Read more about [Discontinued Plans](/docs/about/discontinued-plans/). diff --git a/about/discontinued-plans.html.markerb b/about/discontinued-plans.html.markerb new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..77f6ca51a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/about/discontinued-plans.html.markerb @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +--- +title: Discontinued Plans +layout: docs +sitemap: false +nav: firecracker +author: kcmartin +date: 2026-08-14 +--- + +## Overview + +Fly.io no longer offers plans to new customers. If you purchased a Launch or Scale plan before October 7, 2024, you can remain on those plans unless you convert to Pay As You Go, delete your payment method, or otherwise stop using Fly.io. + +This page covers what those discontinued plans include and how they're billed. If you're not on a legacy plan, see [Pricing](/docs/about/pricing/) and [Billing](/docs/about/billing/) instead. + +--- + +## Legacy free allowances + +Fly.io has deprecated plans as of October 7, 2024, but is still honoring them for users who purchased them prior to that date. The following resources were included for free on the Hobby (deprecated), Launch, and Scale plans, and are still honored for any organizations that were on these plans before we sunset them: + +* Up to 3 shared-cpu-1x 256mb VMs +* 3GB persistent volume storage (total) + +Outbound data transfer: +* 100 GB North America & Europe +* 30 GB Asia Pacific, Oceania & South America +* 30 GB Africa & India + +If your plan includes free allowances, we subtract them off the top of your usage total. Once your usage exceeds the free allowance for any given resource, we start metering usage of that resource for billing purposes. + +--- + +## Legacy plan billing + +
+Customers who received a $5 free trial usage credit when signing up for the $5/mo Hobby plan will be billed monthly after that credit is used up. +
+ +Legacy plan billing, and any included usage, is pro-rated over the month. For example, if you signed up for a Scale plan on September 15th, then you'd be charged $14.50 (half of the $29/mo plan cost) right away and you'll have $14.50 of usage included up to September 30th. Then you'll be charged $29 at the start of October and have $29/mo of usage included for that billing cycle. + +--- + +## Paid Hobby plan with Free Trial credit + +If you signed up for the now deprecated $5/month paid Hobby plan prior the release of the Pay As You Go plan, you got a one-time $5 free trial credit to let you test-drive Fly.io at no cost. When the free trial credit was used up, we automatically placed your organization on the $5/month Hobby plan, which included $5/month of usage and free allowances. There are no free allowances during the free trial. We'll send you an email when your free trial credit is used up and you won't be charged before that. The free trial credit doesn't expire and applies only to the default (“personal”) organization that we created for you on sign-up. + +To change your plan to the Pay As You Go plan, go to the [**Organizations** page](https://fly.io/organizations) in the dashboard, click the organization name to change, then click **Choose Pay As You Go**. If you change your plan, you won't be able to return to the paid Hobby Plan. + +--- + +## Legacy (Free) Hobby plan + +If you were on the free Hobby plan at the time that the paid Hobby plan became the default for new organizations, your plan is now called the Legacy Hobby plan. Your costs stay the same as they were, with no monthly subscription fee, and no included usage beyond the free resource allowances. + +If you change your plan, you won't be able to return to the Legacy Hobby Plan. + +--- + +## **Related reading** + +- [Fly.io Resource Pricing](/docs/about/pricing/) What Fly.io charges for compute, storage, and network today. +- [Billing for Fly.io](/docs/about/billing/) How invoicing, payment methods, and usage tracking work. +- [Cost Management](/docs/about/cost-management/) Best practices for estimating, monitoring, and controlling your spend. diff --git a/about/pricing.html.markerb b/about/pricing.html.markerb index 0868446675..a70fe42746 100644 --- a/about/pricing.html.markerb +++ b/about/pricing.html.markerb @@ -236,33 +236,9 @@ You **will** be billed separately for data transfer to these external third-part The [Machine price](#compute) and [volume price](#persistent-storage-volumes) for Fly Postgres are the same as any other Machine and volume you'd run on Fly.io. Assuming the Machines are running all the time, the cost for the preset configurations is about $2/month for a single node cluster for dev projects and from about $82 to $164/month for a three-node production cluster. You don't need to keep the preset configurations, you can [scale your Fly Postgres Machines](/docs/postgres/managing/scaling/) to suit your workload at any time. -## Discontinued Plans +## Legacy plans -Fly.io no longer offers plans to new customers. If you purchased a Launch or Scale plan before October 7, 2024, you can remain on those plans unless you convert to Pay As You Go, delete your payment method, or otherwise stop using Fly.io. - -### Legacy Free allowances - -The following resources were included for free on the Hobby (deprecated), Launch, and Scale plans, and are still honored for any organizations that were on these plans before we sunset them: - -* Up to 3 shared-cpu-1x 256mb VMs -* 3GB persistent volume storage (total) - -Outbound data transfer: -* 100 GB North America & Europe -* 30 GB Asia Pacific, Oceania & South America -* 30 GB Africa & India - -### Paid Hobby plan with Free Trial credit - -If you signed up for the now deprecated $5/month paid Hobby plan prior the release of the Pay As You Go plan, you got a one-time $5 free trial credit to let you test-drive Fly.io at no cost. When the free trial credit was used up, we automatically placed your organization on the $5/month Hobby plan, which included $5/month of usage and free allowances. There are no free allowances during the free trial. We'll send you an email when your free trial credit is used up and you won't be charged before that. The free trial credit doesn't expire and applies only to the default (“personal”) organization that we created for you on sign-up. - -To change your plan to the Pay As You Go plan, go to the [**Organizations** page](https://fly.io/organizations) in the dashboard, click the organization name to change, then click **Choose Pay As You Go**. If you change your plan, you won't be able to return to the paid Hobby Plan. - -### Legacy (Free) Hobby plan - -If you were on the free Hobby plan at the time that the paid Hobby plan became the default for new organizations, your plan is now called the Legacy Hobby plan. Your costs stay the same as they were, with no monthly subscription fee, and no included usage beyond the free resource allowances. - -If you change your plan, you won't be able to return to the Legacy Hobby Plan. +On a legacy plan and wondering what that includes? Read more about [Discontinued Plans](/docs/about/discontinued-plans/). ## **Related reading**