The Basics

Fly.io
Website fly.io
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch
Linode
Website www.linode.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2003
Data Center Locations 24
Example Customers Panasonic, Best Buy, WayFair and Giphy

Cost Comparison

How do Fly.io's prices compare against Linode?

Example configuration Fly.io Linode
VM Small $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x) $5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x) $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Large $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x) $114.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Dedicated)
Block Storage $15.00 / mo 100 GB $16.00 / mo 160 GB
Object Storage $21.00 / mo 1 TB $20.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer Included in plan $10.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage $65.00 / mo 2 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage
Free egress allowance 100 GB / mo 1-20 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $20.00 $5.00

Note: These 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 Linode offer:

Service Fly.io Linode
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers --
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL
Object Storage
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Feb. 29, 2024, and for Linode on Feb. 8, 2024.