Fly.io vs AudioEye

The two products share no feature surface. AudioEye is a compliance layer for websites: automated accessibility scanning, AI-powered issue detection and remediation, human expert audits, screen reader simulation, color-contrast analysis, and keyboard-navigation testing. It ships a visitor-facing accessibility overlay and continuous monitoring, plus the paperwork enterprises actually need — VPAT/ACR documentation — and legal support including expert testimony. It plugs into the CMSs where accessibility risk lives: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Shopify, Magento, Salesforce, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, and Jira. Fly.io is a compute platform. Its Sprites are hardware-isolated Linux VMs that automatically checkpoint while an agent works, so harnesses like Claude and Codex resume after sleep; you can roll back to any checkpoint in seconds. Machines boot in under a second, deploy typically in ~500ms across 18+ global regions, and the Sprite Block Device (object-storage-backed, up to 100 GB, private beta) gives agents real persistent disk. Egress control and a clean baseline per request make it suitable for running untrusted code. Recent news confirms the direction: Fly's CEO has publicly framed the company's pivot around Sprites for AI agents, and tooling like 'sprite create' and safe-sandbox demos shipped through mid-2026. One is about who can use your website; the other is about what your agent can run.

The pricing structures aren't even the same shape. AudioEye is paid-only with no public list price — in practice that means a sales conversation, a quote scoped to your site, and enterprise-style contracting; its stated not-for includes small businesses with limited budgets, which is the clearest signal about what deals it wants. You should expect annual commitments and to be evaluated on legal-risk reduction, not on compute. Fly.io is freemium and metered: you pay per second of active CPU and memory, storage tiers as hot or cold, and the bill goes to zero when nobody's home. Sprites boot in under a second and deploy typically in 500ms, so you're paying for active work rather than idle capacity — the opposite of the reserved-capacity math that suits constant-high-CPU workloads, which Fly itself flags as a case where reserved instances elsewhere can be cheaper. The Sprite Block Device is in private beta, so its storage economics are still settling. Bottom line on cost logic: AudioEye is a risk-and-liability line item you buy to preempt lawsuits; Fly.io is an infrastructure line item you meter to run agents cheaply when idle. Comparing their 'prices' side by side tells a buyer nothing useful.