--- title: Hosting options to deploy a Ruby app | daily.dev description: A comparison of three popular PaaS providers for deploying small Ruby apps: Heroku, Fly.io, and Render. Each is evaluated on always-on instances with 500MB... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hosting-options-to-deploy-a-ruby-app-m0gk09juw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hosting options to deploy a Ruby app | daily.dev og:description: A comparison of three popular PaaS providers for deploying small Ruby apps: Heroku, Fly.io, and Render. Each is evaluated on always-on instances with 500MB... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hosting-options-to-deploy-a-ruby-app-m0gk09juw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/m0gK09JUW.png og:image:alt: Hosting options to deploy a Ruby app og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hosting options to deploy a Ruby app **[Ruby Flow](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyflow)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comparison of three popular PaaS providers for deploying small Ruby apps: Heroku, Fly.io, and Render. Each is evaluated on always-on instances with 500MB RAM, shared CPU, and cheapest available database. Heroku is the most familiar but priciest and entering a sustaining engineering mode. Fly.io is the cheapest option (~$6.15/month for one app) with Docker-based deployment and fine-grained scaling, but has more complex configuration. Render sits between the two, offering Heroku-like simplicity with Docker support but limited basic database storage. Pricing breakdowns are provided for 1 and 3 apps. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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