The Basics

Backblaze
Website www.backblaze.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2007
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune
Fly.io
Website fly.io
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch

Cost Comparison

How do Backblaze's prices compare against Fly.io?

Example configuration Backblaze Fly.io
VM Small -- $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x)
VM Medium -- $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x)
VM Large -- $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x)
Block Storage -- $15.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $6.00 / mo 1 TB $21.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer -- Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL -- $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Free egress allowance 3x the amount of data stored 100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $10.00 $0.01 / GB $20.00

Note: These pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Backblaze and Fly.io offer:

Service Backblaze Fly.io
Block Storage --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Managed Containers --
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Object Storage
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

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Our data for Backblaze was last updated on Feb. 9, 2024, and for Fly.io on Feb. 29, 2024.