How Fly.io’s scores are calculated

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docsweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

• [probe] https://fly.io/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 200 at https://fly.io/llms.txt # Fly.io Documentation > Fly.io is a global public cloud for running full-stack and AI applications. Customer > workloa”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Every agent gets its own Linux box. A Sprite checkpoints itself while the agent works, so harnesses like Claude and Codex find everything where they left it.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Run every MCP server in its own Sprite, with persistent disk, and egress policy. Pay only for the tool calls you use.”

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automationweight 2

2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs“**Step 1:** Install `flyctl` ... **Step 2:** Run `fly launch`”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/launch/“Run `fly launch` from inside your project source directory to create, configure, and (for most apps) deploy a new application.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“The `fly machine run` command is a tool to configure, build, and start a new Machine in one line.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“The Fly Machines REST API provides resources to provision and manage Fly Apps, Fly Machines, and Fly Volumes.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/machines/overview/“Fly Machines are fast-launching VMs with a simple REST API.”
• [probe] https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/“official CLI documented at https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/”

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their toolsweight 3

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Run every MCP server in its own Sprite, with persistent disk, and egress policy. Pay only for the tool calls you use.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/blueprints/remote-mcp-servers/“Fly Machines are tightly isolated VMs that are perfect for running MCP servers.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/mcp/“[experimental] Start a flyctl MCP server”

Connect an agent via an official MCP serverweight 3

3 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 9.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/mcp/“[experimental] Start a flyctl MCP server”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/blueprints/remote-mcp-servers/“Fly Machines are tightly isolated VMs that are perfect for running MCP servers.”

Use an official CLIweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs“**Step 1:** Install `flyctl` ... **Step 2:** Run `fly launch`”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/launch/“Run `fly launch` from inside your project source directory to create, configure, and (for most apps) deploy a new application.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Run diagnostics: `fly doctor` — checks WireGuard, IPs, and Docker.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“The `fly machine run` command is a tool to configure, build, and start a new Machine in one line.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/mcp/“[experimental] Start a flyctl MCP server”
• [probe] https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/“official CLI documented at https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Every agent gets its own Linux box. A Sprite checkpoints itself while the agent works, so harnesses like Claude and Codex find everything where they left it.”

Drive the product through a documented public APIweight 3

3 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 10.8 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“The Fly Machines REST API provides resources to provision and manage Fly Apps, Fly Machines, and Fly Volumes.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/machines/overview/“Fly Machines are fast-launching VMs with a simple REST API.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/blueprints/remote-mcp-servers/“Fly Machines are tightly isolated VMs that are perfect for running MCP servers.”
• [probe] https://fly.io/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://fly.io/openapi.json, https://fly.io/swagger.json, https://fly.io/api/openapi.json, https://fly.io/.well-known/openapi.json)”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/mcp/“[experimental] Start a flyctl MCP server”

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agentweight 2

2 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 14.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Connect a service once for your whole org, and every Sprite can reach it. Nobody pastes a token.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Grant access on purpose: by Sprite name, by label, or down to a single endpoint, so a Slack bot can post messages and never touch admin.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Rotate once and every Sprite has the new credential. Cut off a single Sprite and the rest never notice.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Secrets allow sensitive values, such as credentials, to be passed securely to your Fly App. The secret is encrypted and stored in a vault.”

Build against official SDKsweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“The Fly Machines REST API provides resources to provision and manage Fly Apps, Fly Machines, and Fly Volumes.”
• [probe] https://fly.io/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://fly.io/openapi.json, https://fly.io/swagger.json, https://fly.io/api/openapi.json, https://fly.io/.well-known/openapi.json)”
• [probe] https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/“official CLI documented at https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/”

Subscribe to events via webhooksweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/laravel-bytes/never-miss-a-webhook/“Fly.io converts Docker images to fast-booting VMs and runs them globally. This is great or ingesting incoming data!”

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examplesweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“The Fly Machines REST API provides resources to provision and manage Fly Apps, Fly Machines, and Fly Volumes.”
• [probe] https://fly.io/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://fly.io/openapi.json, https://fly.io/swagger.json, https://fly.io/api/openapi.json, https://fly.io/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)weight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [probe] https://fly.io/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://fly.io/openapi.json, https://fly.io/swagger.json, https://fly.io/api/openapi.json, https://fly.io/.well-known/openapi.json)”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“The Fly Machines REST API provides resources to provision and manage Fly Apps, Fly Machines, and Fly Volumes.”

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production dataweight 1

1 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.2 of 10 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Run it in a hardware-isolated VM. A clean baseline per request, so no two users ever share state. Egress-locked and disposable.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Roll back to any checkpoint in seconds”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Every agent gets its own Linux box. A Sprite checkpoints itself while the agent works, so harnesses like Claude and Codex find everything where they left it.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Give it a Sprite that sleeps until it's needed and wakes up remembering everything.”

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policyweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [probe] https://fly.io/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://fly.io/openapi.json, https://fly.io/swagger.json, https://fly.io/api/openapi.json, https://fly.io/.well-known/openapi.json)”
• [probe] https://fly.io/docs.md“PROBE docs-md: HTTP 404 at https://fly.io/docs.md”

The documented rate limits and concurrency caps for APIs and functions so I can plan for scaleweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UIweight 2

2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“The Fly Machines REST API provides resources to provision and manage Fly Apps, Fly Machines, and Fly Volumes.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/machines/overview/“Fly Machines are fast-launching VMs with a simple REST API.”
• [probe] https://fly.io/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://fly.io/openapi.json, https://fly.io/swagger.json, https://fly.io/api/openapi.json, https://fly.io/.well-known/openapi.json)”
• [probe] https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/“official CLI documented at https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/”

Export all of my data in open formats and leaveweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Read the product's source under an open licenseweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Self-host the core productweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs“**Step 1:** Install `flyctl` ... **Step 2:** Run `fly launch`”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Fly Machines are hardware-isolated VMs that boot in under a second, run close to your users, and scale out to tens of thousands when the traffic arrives.”
• [probe] https://fly.io/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 200 at https://fly.io/llms.txt # Fly.io Documentation > Fly.io is a global public cloud for running full-stack and AI applications. Customer > workloa”
• [probe] https://fly.io/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://fly.io/openapi.json, https://fly.io/swagger.json, https://fly.io/api/openapi.json, https://fly.io/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the productweight 2

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Set up automations that run autonomously in the backgroundweight 2

2 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 6.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Every agent gets its own Linux box. A Sprite checkpoints itself while the agent works, so harnesses like Claude and Codex find everything where they left it.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Give it a Sprite that sleeps until it's needed and wakes up remembering everything.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“The Machine restart policy defines whether and how flyd restarts a Machine after its main process exits.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31390506“For me the missing bit in Fly is scheduled tasks. I know how to solve this by spinning up an app that runs permanently as a scheduler, but basic cron-like scheduling should be part of the platform IMO.”

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the productweight 3

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Operate the product with natural-language commandsweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/mcp/“[experimental] Start a flyctl MCP server”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Give your agent a real computer and get back to building.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Every agent gets its own Linux box. A Sprite checkpoints itself while the agent works, so harnesses like Claude and Codex find everything where they left it.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io/docs“**Step 1:** Install `flyctl` ... **Step 2:** Run `fly launch`”

Perform bulk operations across many items at onceweight 2

2 (weight) × 3 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 3.6 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“The Fly Machines REST API provides resources to provision and manage Fly Apps, Fly Machines, and Fly Volumes.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“The `fly machine run` command is a tool to configure, build, and start a new Machine in one line.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“the `fly scale` command for quick horizontal and vertical scaling”

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on eventsweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“The Machine restart policy defines whether and how flyd restarts a Machine after its main process exits.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31390506“For me the missing bit in Fly is scheduled tasks. I know how to solve this by spinning up an app that runs permanently as a scheduler, but basic cron-like scheduling should be part of the platform IMO.”

Schedule recurring jobs or workflowsweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31390506“For me the missing bit in Fly is scheduled tasks. I know how to solve this by spinning up an app that runs permanently as a scheduler, but basic cron-like scheduling should be part of the platform IMO.”

Version, review, and roll back my automationsweight 1

1 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 2.4 of 10 max

• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Roll back to any checkpoint in seconds”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Every agent gets its own Linux box. A Sprite checkpoints itself while the agent works, so harnesses like Claude and Codex find everything where they left it.”
• [claimed-docs] https://fly.io“Give it a Sprite that sleeps until it's needed and wakes up remembering everything.”