Flightcontrol vs RunPod

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

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

RunPod

Affordable GPUs in various configurations
Packed with features: hot-reloading, managed containers, logging & monitoring
Available in 30+ regions across the world

Price comparison

How do Flightcontrol's prices compare against RunPod?

Example configuration	Flightcontrol	RunPod
VM Small	--	$43.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Medium	--	$86.40 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Large	--	$172.80 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
Block Storage	--	$10.00 / mo 100 GB
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	--	Free and unlimited

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.

RunPod offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
A30	1x A30	24GB	8	31GB	$0.22	Source
RTX A4000	1x A4000	16GB	4	20GB	$0.32	Source
A4500	1x A4500	20GB	4	29GB	$0.34	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	4	24GB	$0.36	Source
A40	1x A40	48GB	9	50GB	$0.39	Source
RTX4090	1x RTX 4090	24GB	5	30GB	$0.69	Source
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	62GB	$0.76	Source
A6000 Ada	1x A6000	48GB	14	58GB	$0.88	Source
L40	1x L40S	48GB	16	250GB	$0.99	Source
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	12	62GB	$1.03	Source
A100 PCIe	1x A100	80GB	8	117GB	$1.64	Source
A100 SXM	1x A100	80GB	16	125GB	$1.89	Source
MI250	1x MI250	128GB	--	--	$2.10	Source
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	24	188GB	$2.69	Source
H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	16	125GB	$2.99	Source
MI300X	1x MI300X	192GB	24	283GB	$2.99	Source
H200 SXM	1x H200	141GB	--	--	$3.99	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 RunPod offer:

Service	Flightcontrol	RunPod
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

	Flightcontrol	RunPod
Website	flightcontrol.dev	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2021	2022
Data Center Locations	--	24
Example Customers	Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu

	Flightcontrol
Website	flightcontrol.dev
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2021
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane

	RunPod
Website	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2022
Data Center Locations	24
Example Customers	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu