What's good about...

Flightcontrol logo 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

Flightcontrol logo 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 Flightcontrol's prices compare against Fly.io?

Example configuration Flightcontrol Fly.io
VM Small -- $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x)
VM Medium -- $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x)
VM Large -- $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
Free egress allowance -- 100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance -- $20.00 $0.02 / GB (Public network North America)

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.

Fly.io offers GPUs in the following configurations:

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 Flightcontrol and Fly.io offer:

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

Company details

Flightcontrol
Website flightcontrol.dev
Headquarters United States of America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Founded 2021
Data Center Locations --
Example Customers Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane
Fly.io
Website fly.io
Headquarters United States of America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch

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Our data for Flightcontrol was last updated on Oct. 18, 2024, and for Fly.io on Sept. 28, 2024.