CoreWeave
vs
Fly.io
What's good about each
- Nvidia nodes from A100 up to GB300 NVL72 racks
- Bare-metal nodes under a managed Kubernetes control plane
- No charge for the Kubernetes control plane or Slurm
- Free egress and no object storage request fees
- Excellent tooling and developer experience
- Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
- Per-second billing, with a 40% discount for reserved compute blocks
- Anycast networking and global load balancing included at no extra cost
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | CoreWeave | Fly.io | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x) | |
| Block storage | $7.00 /mo 100 GB (Distributed File Storage) | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | 53% cheaper on CoreWeave |
| Object storage | $61.44 /mo 1 TB (Hot) | $20.50 /mo 1 TB (Tigris) | 67% cheaper on Fly.io |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $86.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Starter) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $20.00 /mo 1 GB data (Upstash Fixed 1GB) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | Included with apps | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe) |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
CoreWeave offers 11 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Fly.io. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | CoreWeave | Fly.io | Difference |
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$2.46 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | CoreWeave only |
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$4.48 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | CoreWeave only |
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$4.26 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | CoreWeave only |
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$1.20 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | CoreWeave only |
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$2.62 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | CoreWeave only |
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$1.21 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | CoreWeave only |
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$10.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | CoreWeave only |
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-- On request | -- | CoreWeave only |
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$0.98 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | CoreWeave only |
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$6.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | CoreWeave only |
CoreWeave bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | CoreWeave | Fly.io |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Data centers only |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | CoreWeave | Fly.io |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 2017 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 55 | 18 |
| Example customers | OpenAI, Cohere, Mistral AI, NovelAI | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase |
| Website | coreweave.com | fly.io |
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Our data for CoreWeave was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Fly.io on Sept. 18, 2026.