What's good about...
Cloudways
- Deploy to 65+ datacenter regions across multiple cloud providers
- Built-in cache, database, and CDN integration
- Offers free SSL, staging environments, and automated backups
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 Cloudways's prices compare against Fly.io?
| Example configuration |
Cloudways
|
Fly.io
|
|---|---|---|
| VM Small | $11.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB) | $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x) |
| VM Medium | $88.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB) | $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x) |
| VM Large | $149.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB) | $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 |
| Managed Redis®* | Included depending on plan | -- |
| Free egress allowance | 1 TB - 12 TB / mo included depending on plan | 100 GB / mo |
| 1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $20.00 $0.02 / GB (DO provider) | $20.00 $0.02 / GB (Public network North America) |
Fly.io GPUs
| 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 Cloudways and Fly.io offer:
| Service |
Cloudways
|
Fly.io
|
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| Content Delivery Network (CDN) | -- | |
| GPU-powered Servers | -- | |
| Load Balancer | -- | |
| Managed Containers | ||
| Managed Kubernetes | -- | |
| Managed MySQL | -- | |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
| Managed Redis®* | -- | |
| Object Storage | -- | |
| Static Sites | -- | |
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Company details
|
Cloudways
|
Fly.io
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Website | www.cloudways.com | fly.io |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2012 | 2017 |
| Data Center Locations | -- | 35 |
| Example Customers | Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch |
|
Cloudways
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | www.cloudways.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Data Center Locations | -- |
| Example Customers | Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko |
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Our data for Cloudways was last updated on May 5, 2025, and for Fly.io on Sept. 28, 2024.