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
UpCloud
- Great selection of affordable, yet performant servers
- Wide range of managed services, from databases to object storage to Kubernetes
- Offers 100% SLA with 50x compensation for service outages
- Based in the EU, may ease GDPR compliance
Price comparison
How do Flightcontrol's prices compare against UpCloud?
| Example configuration |
Flightcontrol
|
UpCloud
|
|---|---|---|
| VM Small | -- | $3.32 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared) |
| VM Medium | -- | $57.62 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (General) |
| VM Large | -- | $177.30 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (High CPU) |
| Block Storage | -- | $24.38 / mo 100 GB |
| Object Storage | -- | $22.16 / mo 1 TB |
| Load Balancer | -- | $11.08 / mo |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | $66.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage |
| Managed Redis®* | -- | $55.40 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM |
| 1 TB of egress beyond allowance | -- | Free and unlimited 1-24 TB / mo per instance |
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 of the managed services that Flightcontrol and UpCloud offer:
| Service |
Flightcontrol
|
UpCloud
|
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| Content Delivery Network (CDN) | -- | |
| Container Registry | -- | |
| GPU-powered Servers | -- | |
| Load Balancer | ||
| Managed Containers | -- | |
| Managed Kubernetes | -- | |
| Managed MySQL | ||
| Managed PostgreSQL | ||
| Managed Redis®* | ||
| Object Storage | ||
| Serverless Cron Jobs | -- | |
| Static Sites | -- | |
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Company details
|
Flightcontrol
|
UpCloud
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Website | flightcontrol.dev | upcloud.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | Finland 🇫🇮 |
| Founded | 2021 | 2012 |
| Data Center Locations | -- | 13 |
| Example Customers | Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane | Aiven, Xensam, HackTheBox, LeadDesk |
|
Flightcontrol
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | flightcontrol.dev |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2021 |
| Data Center Locations | -- |
| Example Customers | Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane |
|
UpCloud
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | upcloud.com |
| Headquarters | Finland 🇫🇮 |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Data Center Locations | 13 |
| Example Customers | Aiven, Xensam, HackTheBox, LeadDesk |
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Our data for Flightcontrol was last updated on Aug. 16, 2024, and for UpCloud on Sept. 9, 2024.