The Basics

DigitalOcean
Website digitalocean.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2011
Data Center Locations 14
Example Customers Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai
Fly.io
Website fly.io
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch

Cost Comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Fly.io?

Example configuration DigitalOcean Fly.io
VM Small $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x)
VM Medium $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x)
VM Large $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x)
Block Storage $10.00 / mo 100 GB $15.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $20.00 / mo 1 TiB $21.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $12.00 / mo Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM --
Serverless 25M Executions $34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration --
Free egress allowance 100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance 100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $10.00 $20.00

Note: These 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 DigitalOcean and Fly.io offer:

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

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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Feb. 21, 2024, and for Fly.io on Feb. 29, 2024.