Fly.io
vs
Gcore
What's good about each
- Excellent tooling and developer experience
- Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
- Per-second billing, with a 40% discount for reserved compute blocks
- Anycast networking and global load balancing included at no extra cost
- Cloud regions on six continents
- Free egress from virtual machines and bare metal
- Per-minute billing, only while a VM runs
- Nvidia GPUs from L40S up to GB300 NVL72 racks
- CDN and DDoS protection on the same account
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Fly.io | Gcore | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x) | $11.72 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g3a-standard-1-2) | 51% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Medium VM | $42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x) | $46.91 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g3a-standard-4-8) | 9% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Large VM | $248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x) | $93.83 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g3a-standard-8-16) | 62% cheaper on Gcore |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $20.50 /mo 1 TB (Tigris) | $52.26 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | 61% cheaper on Fly.io |
| PostgreSQL | $86.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Starter) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $20.00 /mo 1 GB data (Upstash Fixed 1GB) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | Included with apps | $17.15 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2) | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $7.46 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt) | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe) | Free from VMs, billed from Object Storage |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Gcore offers 6 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Fly.io. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Fly.io | Gcore | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
9 configs
|
-- | $1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- | $6.78 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
|
H200
1 config
|
-- | $3.08 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
|
A100
5 configs
|
-- | $1.42 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
|
GB300
1 config
|
-- | -- On request | Gcore only |
|
L40S
4 configs
|
-- | $1.22 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
Gcore bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Fly.io | Gcore |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type I |
| ISO 27001 | Data centers only | Yes |
| HIPAA | Yes | -- |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Yes |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Gcore on Sept. 18, 2026.