Fly.io vs GCP

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Fly.io

Excellent tooling and developer experience
Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
Wide range of instance configurations at competitive prices

Google Cloud

Extensive range of managed services with a focus on big data and machine learning
BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are widely considered industry-leading solutions
Strong community and developer tooling
40+ data centers around the world

Price comparison

How do Fly.io's prices compare against Google Cloud?

Example configuration	Fly.io	Google Cloud
VM Small	$10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x)	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Medium	$42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x)	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Large	$328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x)	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
Block Storage	$15.00 / mo 100 GB	$4.10 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$21.00 / mo 1 TB	$24.93 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	Included in plan	$29.44 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	100 GB / mo	Depends on service
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$20.00 $0.02 / GB (Public network North America)	$120.00 $0.12 / GB (Premium network)

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

GCP offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
g2-standard-4	1x L4	24GB	4	16GB	$0.71	Source
g2-standard-8	1x L4	24GB	8	32GB	$0.85	Source
g2-standard-12	1x L4	24GB	12	48GB	$1.00	Source
g2-standard-16	1x L4	24GB	16	64GB	$1.15	Source
g2-standard-32	1x L4	24GB	32	128GB	$1.73	Source
g2-standard-24	2x L4	48GB	24	96GB	$2.00	Source
a2-highgpu-1g	1x A100	40GB	12	85GB	$3.67	Source
g2-standard-48	4x L4	96GB	48	192GB	$4.00	Source
a2-highgpu-2g	2x A100	80GB	24	170GB	$7.35	Source
g2-standard-96	8x L4	192GB	96	384GB	$8.00	Source
a2-highgpu-4g	4x A100	160GB	48	340GB	$14.69	Source
a2-highgpu-8g	8x A100	320GB	96	680GB	$29.39	Source
a2-megagpu-16g	16x A100	640GB	96	1360GB	$55.74	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 Fly.io and Google Cloud offer:

Service	Fly.io	Google Cloud
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	--
Serverless Functions	--
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Fly.io	Google Cloud
Website	fly.io	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2017	2008
Data Center Locations	35	40
Example Customers	Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

	Fly.io
Website	fly.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2017
Data Center Locations	35
Example Customers	Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch

	Google Cloud
Website	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	40
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank