Fal.ai vs UpCloud

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

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

UpCloud

Wide range of VPS options at competitive prices
Good selection of managed services, from databases to object storage to Kubernetes
Offers a 100% SLA with 50x compensation for service outages
Based in the EU, may ease GDPR compliance

Price comparison

How do Fal.ai's prices compare against UpCloud?

Example configuration	Fal.ai	UpCloud
VM Small	--	$3.48 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium	--	$60.29 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (General)
VM Large	--	$185.50 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (High CPU)
Block Storage	--	$25.51 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$23.19 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$11.59 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$69.56 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$57.97 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	--	Free and unlimited 1-24 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth

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

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 Fal.ai and UpCloud offer:

Service	Fal.ai	UpCloud
Block Storage	--
GPU-powered Servers		--
Load Balancer	--
Managed Kubernetes	--
Managed MySQL	--
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Managed Redis®*	--
Object Storage	--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)	--

Company details

	Fal.ai	UpCloud
Website	fal.ai	upcloud.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	Finland 🇫🇮
Founded	2021	2012
Data Center Locations	--	13
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