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Fly.io vs Gogs

Fly.io and Gogs score alike on the AgentReady. They differ on 8 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Fly.io. Fly.io provides real hardware-isolated Linux computers (called Sprites and Machines) for agents, evals, and tools, with a pay-as-you-go model where billing goes to zero when not in use.

Gogs. A simple, stable and extensible self-hosted Git service that can be set up in the most painless way

Where Fly.io is ahead

Fly.io passes public docs discoverable, and Gogs does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds adopt: self-service signup and official python sdk. Gogs misses those.

Where Gogs is ahead

Gogs passes clear product positioning and llms-full.txt / full agent docs, and Fly.io does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: limits / constraints documented. Fly.io misses it.

And on adopt, free trial or free allowance and copyable quickstart. Fly.io misses those.

What neither does

Both fail structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover. Gogs leads 87 to 80. Fly.io misses clear product positioning, llms-full.txt / full agent docs; Gogs misses public docs discoverable.

Understand. Gogs leads 31 to 23. Fly.io misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Gogs misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented.

Adopt is whether an agent can get a key and make its first successful call without a human in the loop. Fly.io leads 55 to 40. Fly.io misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart; Gogs misses self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, official python sdk.

Operate. Both sit at 53/100 here. Fly.io misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable; Gogs misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable.

Pricing

Fly.io starts at $29/mo. Gogs does not publish one and has a free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Gogs clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Fly.io and Gogs. Alternatives to each: Fly.io, Gogs.

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