What's good about...

Cloudflare logo 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

Cloudflare logo 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 of the managed services that Cloudflare and Flightcontrol offer:

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

Company details

Cloudflare
Website cloudflare.com
Headquarters United States of America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Founded 2009
Data Center Locations 285
Example Customers Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify
Flightcontrol
Website flightcontrol.dev
Headquarters United States of America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Founded 2021
Data Center Locations --
Example Customers Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane

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Our data for Cloudflare was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for Flightcontrol on Aug. 16, 2024.