Cloudflare vs Flightcontrol

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Cloudflare

Consolidates many edge services under one platform: DNS, Load Balancing, caching, image optimization, serverless functions
Massive edge network that can handle large DDoS attacks
Very generous free tier, affordable paid plans

Flightcontrol

Your AWS infrastructure is managed by a seasoned devops team at a fraction of the cost
Excellent documentation and easy-to-use dashboard
Great developer experience: preview environments, rollbacks, notifications, monitoring
Deploy close to your users, supports 28 AWS regions

Price comparison

How do Cloudflare's prices compare against Flightcontrol?

Example configuration	Cloudflare	Flightcontrol
Object Storage	$19.86 / mo 1 TB	--
Serverless 25M Executions	$82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Free for most services	--

Flightcontrol charges a fixed monthly fee to use their service in addition to the standard AWS usage costs. They claim this model gives you up to 75% lower costs at scale when compared to traditional PaaS offerings.

There are currently 4 plans available:

Free: limited to 1 user, but commercial use is allowed.
Starter $49/mo: includes 5 services and multiple users.
Business $249/mo: includes 10 services, preview environments, RBAC and multi-region.
Enterprise: custom pricing, SLAs, premium support.

Additional services cost $15-30/mo, depending on the plan.

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 Cloudflare and Flightcontrol offer:

Service	Cloudflare	Flightcontrol
Block Storage	--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry	--
Load Balancer
Managed Containers	--
Managed MySQL	--
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Managed Redis®*	--
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions		--
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)	--

Company details

	Cloudflare	Flightcontrol
Website	cloudflare.com	flightcontrol.dev
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2021
Data Center Locations	285	--
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify	Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane

	Cloudflare
Website	cloudflare.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009
Data Center Locations	285
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify

	Flightcontrol
Website	flightcontrol.dev
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2021
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane