Fly.io
vs
Hikube
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
- Storage replicated across datacenters in Geneva, Gland and Lucerne
- H100, H200 and A100 GPUs on VMs or Kubernetes
- Managed Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse, Kafka and RabbitMQ
- ISO 27001 certified company and datacenters
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Fly.io | Hikube | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x) | $28.89 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (s1.small) | 80% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Medium VM | $42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x) | $115.55 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (s1.large) | 63% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Large VM | $248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x) | $231.10 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (s1.xlarge) | 7% cheaper on Hikube |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | $21.97 /mo 100 GB | 32% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Object storage | $20.50 /mo 1 TB (Tigris) | $24.41 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress | 16% cheaper on Fly.io |
| PostgreSQL | $86.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Starter) | $59.13 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB (large) | 31% cheaper on Hikube |
| Redis | $20.00 /mo 1 GB data (Upstash Fixed 1GB) | $24.08 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (medium) | 17% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Load balancer | Included with apps | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe) | Free and unlimited |
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
Hikube 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 | Hikube | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
1 config
|
-- | $3.88 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hikube only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
-- | $3.13 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hikube only |
|
H200
1 config
|
-- | $4.71 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hikube only |
|
A100
1 config
|
-- | $3.03 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hikube only |
|
L40S
1 config
|
-- | $1.81 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hikube only |
|
L4
1 config
|
-- | $0.81 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hikube only |
Hikube 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.
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.
Company details
| Fact | Fly.io | Hikube |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | USA | Switzerland |
| Locations | 18 | 3 |
| Example customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase | -- |
| Website | fly.io | hikube.cloud |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Hikube on Sept. 22, 2026.