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
Hetzner
- High performance VPS configurations at affordable prices (shared, high memory, dedicated CPU)
- Easy to use web console & developer tooling (Terraform SDKs, official CLI)
- EU-based company, may simplify GDPR compliance for some
Price comparison
How do Fly.io's prices compare against Hetzner?
Example configuration | Fly.io | Hetzner |
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VM Small | $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x) | $4.91 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22) |
VM Medium | $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x) | $8.82 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32) |
VM Large | $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x) | $21.27 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42) |
Block Storage | $15.00 / mo 100 GB | $5.66 / mo 100 GB |
Object Storage | $21.00 / mo 1 TB | $5.45 / mo 1 TB |
Load Balancer | Included in plan | $6.93 / mo LB11 |
Managed PostgreSQL | $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | -- |
Free egress allowance | 100 GB / mo | 20-60 TB / mo per instance |
1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $20.00 $0.02 / GB (Public network North America) | $1.09 β¬1 / TB |
Fly.io offers GPUs in the following configurations:
Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
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L40S | 1x L40S | 48GB | -- | -- | $1.25 | |
A10 | 1x A10 | 24GB | -- | -- | $1.50 | |
A100 40G PCIe | 1x A100 | 40GB | -- | -- | $2.50 | |
A100 80G SXM | 1x A100 | 80GB | -- | -- | $3.50 |
Hetzner offers GPUs in the following configurations:
Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GEX44 | 1x RTX4000 | 20GB | 14 | 64GB | $0.38 | |
GEX130 | 1x A6000 | 48GB | 24 | 128GB | $1.74 |
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 Fly.io and Hetzner offer:
Service | Fly.io | Hetzner |
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Block Storage | ||
GPU-powered Servers | ||
Load Balancer | ||
Managed Containers | -- | |
Managed Kubernetes | -- | |
Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
Object Storage | ||
Static Sites | -- | |
Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Company details
Fly.io | Hetzner | |
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Website | fly.io | hetzner.com |
Headquarters | United States of America πΊπΈ | Germany π©πͺ |
Founded | 2017 | 1997 |
Data Center Locations | 35 | 6 |
Example Customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch | Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc |
Fly.io | |
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Website | fly.io |
Headquarters | United States of America πΊπΈ |
Founded | 2017 |
Data Center Locations | 35 |
Example Customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch |
Hetzner | |
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Website | hetzner.com |
Headquarters | Germany π©πͺ |
Founded | 1997 |
Data Center Locations | 6 |
Example Customers | Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc |
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More comparisonsOur data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Hetzner on Oct. 7, 2024.