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 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 Cloudflare's prices compare against Fly.io?

Example configuration Cloudflare 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 $19.86 / 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
Serverless 25M Executions $82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration --
Free egress allowance -- 100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free for most services $20.00

Fly.io offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs Total GPU Memory vCPUs RAM Price per hour
A10 1x A10 24GB -- -- $1.50
L40S 1x L40S 48GB -- -- $2.50
A100 40G PCIe 1x A100 40GB -- -- $2.50
A100 80G SXM 1x A100 80GB -- -- $3.50

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 Fly.io offer:

Service Cloudflare Fly.io
Block Storage --
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer
Managed Containers --
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Serverless Functions --
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

Company details

Cloudflare
Website cloudflare.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2009
Data Center Locations 285
Example Customers Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify
Fly.io
Website fly.io
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch

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Our data for Cloudflare was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for Fly.io on July 24, 2024.