What's good about...
Build AI
- Cost efficient, claims to save up to 50% on GPU costs
- Predictable interruptions during peak energy hours
- Offers Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs
Fly.io
- Excellent tooling and developer experience
- Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
- Wide range of instance configurations at competitive prices
Price comparison
How do Build AI's prices compare against Fly.io?
| Example configuration |
Build AI
|
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 | -- | $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 | -- | 100 GB / mo |
| 1 TB of egress beyond allowance | -- | $20.00 $0.02 / GB (Public network North America) |
What makes Build AI's pricing stand out is that you can run your workload on interruptible GPUs (spot) and save up to 50% of the cost. They claim interruptions last about 2 hours per day, which makes them particularly suited for training workloads.
If you require guaranteed uptime, non-interruptible GPUs can be reserved on their platform too.
Build AI offers GPUs in the following configurations:
| Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A100 (spot) | 1x A100 | 40GB | 15 | 200GB | $1.05 | Source |
| A100 | 1x A100 | 40GB | 15 | 200GB | $1.42 | Source |
| A100 (spot) | 1x A100 | 80GB | 30 | 225GB | $1.45 | Source |
| A100 | 1x A100 | 80GB | 30 | 225GB | $1.97 | Source |
| H100 (spot) | 1x H100 | 80GB | 26 | 225GB | $2.79 | Source |
| H100 | 1x H100 | 80GB | 26 | 225GB | $3.85 | Source |
Fly.io offers GPUs in the following configurations:
| Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L40S | 1x L40S | 48GB | -- | -- | $1.25 | Source |
| A10 | 1x A10 | 24GB | -- | -- | $1.50 | Source |
| A100 40G PCIe | 1x A100 | 40GB | -- | -- | $2.50 | Source |
| A100 80G SXM | 1x A100 | 80GB | -- | -- | $3.50 | Source |
Note: Our 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 managed services that Build AI and Fly.io offer:
| Service |
Build AI
|
Fly.io
|
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | -- | |
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Load Balancer | -- | |
| Managed Containers | -- | |
| Managed Kubernetes | ||
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
| Object Storage | -- | |
| Static Sites | -- | |
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Company details
|
Build AI
|
Fly.io
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Website | trybuild.ai | fly.io |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2024 | 2017 |
| Data Center Locations | 1 | 35 |
| Example Customers | -- | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch |
|
Build AI
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | trybuild.ai |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2024 |
| Data Center Locations | 1 |
| Example Customers | -- |
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Our data for Build AI was last updated on Oct. 7, 2024, and for Fly.io on Sept. 28, 2024.