What's good about...

Fly.io logo Fly.io

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

Fly.io logo 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
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 €1 / TB

Fly.io offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
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
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
Website fly.io
Headquarters United States of America πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch
Hetzner
Website hetzner.com
Headquarters Germany πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ
Founded 1997
Data Center Locations 6
Example Customers Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc

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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Hetzner on Oct. 7, 2024.