What's good about...
Fal.ai
- Optimized for fast inference, especially for generative media
- Cost-effective, pay-as-you-go pricing model
- Offers both serverless GPU instances
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
Fal.ai's Pricing
Fal.ai uses a usage-based pricing model, ensuring you only pay for the compute you consume. It offers two main structures:
- GPU Pricing: Billed per second for deploying custom applications on their GPU fleet.
- Output-Based Pricing: For models hosted by Fal.ai, billing is based on the output generated, such as per image, per megapixel, or per second of video.
Fal.ai GPUs
| Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A6000 | 1x A6000 | 48GB | -- | -- | $0.60 | Source |
| A100 | 1x A100 | 40GB | -- | -- | $0.99 | Source |
| H100 | 1x H100 | 80GB | -- | -- | $1.89 | Source |
| H200 | 1x H200 | 141GB | -- | -- | $2.10 | Source |
| B200 | 1x B200 | 184GB | -- | -- | On Request | Source |
Flightcontrol's Pricing
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.
Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Fal.ai and Flightcontrol offer:
| Service |
Fal.ai
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Flightcontrol
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|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | -- | |
| Content Delivery Network (CDN) | -- | |
| Container Registry | -- | |
| GPU-powered Servers | -- | |
| Load Balancer | -- | |
| Managed Containers | -- | |
| Managed MySQL | -- | |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
| Managed Redis®* | -- | |
| Object Storage | -- | |
| Serverless Cron Jobs | -- | |
| Static Sites | -- | |
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) | -- |
Company details
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Fal.ai
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Flightcontrol
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|---|---|---|
| Website | fal.ai | flightcontrol.dev |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2021 | 2021 |
| Data Center Locations | -- | -- |
| Example Customers | PlayAI, Quora Poe, Genspark, Hedra | Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane |
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Fal.ai
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|---|---|
| Website | fal.ai |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2021 |
| Data Center Locations | -- |
| Example Customers | PlayAI, Quora Poe, Genspark, Hedra |
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Flightcontrol
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|---|---|
| Website | flightcontrol.dev |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2021 |
| Data Center Locations | -- |
| Example Customers | Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane |
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Our data for Fal.ai was last updated on June 12, 2025, and for Flightcontrol on Oct. 18, 2024.