What's good about...
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
Render
- Offers managed services from caches to databases to cron jobs to background workers
- Managed PostgreSQL supports point-in-time recovery
- Generous free tier
Price comparison
How do Flightcontrol's prices compare against Render?
| Example configuration |
Flightcontrol
|
Render
|
|---|---|---|
| VM Small | -- | $25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service) |
| VM Medium | -- | $175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service) |
| VM Large | -- | $450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service) |
| Block Storage | -- | $25.00 / mo 100 GB |
| Load Balancer | -- | Included in plan |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | $95.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage |
| Managed Redis®* | -- | $32.00 / mo 1 GB RAM |
| Free egress allowance | -- | 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan |
| 1 TB of egress beyond allowance | -- | $300.00 Billed $30 / 100 GB |
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.
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 Render offer:
| Service |
Flightcontrol
|
Render
|
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| Content Delivery Network (CDN) | ||
| Container Registry | -- | |
| Load Balancer | -- | |
| Managed Containers | ||
| Managed MySQL | ||
| Managed PostgreSQL | ||
| Managed Redis®* | ||
| Object Storage | -- | |
| Serverless Cron Jobs | ||
| Static Sites | ||
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) | -- |
Company details
|
Flightcontrol
|
Render
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Website | flightcontrol.dev | render.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2021 | 2018 |
| Data Center Locations | -- | 4 |
| Example Customers | Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane | Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt |
|
Flightcontrol
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | flightcontrol.dev |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2021 |
| Data Center Locations | -- |
| Example Customers | Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane |
|
Render
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | render.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Data Center Locations | 4 |
| Example Customers | Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt |
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Our data for Flightcontrol was last updated on Oct. 18, 2024, and for Render on Nov. 12, 2024.