Fly.io
vs
Lyceum
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
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Fly.io | Lyceum | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | 33% cheaper on Lyceum |
| Object storage | $20.50 /mo 1 TB (Tigris) | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $86.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Starter) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $20.00 /mo 1 GB data (Upstash Fixed 1GB) | -- Not listed | |
| 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
Lyceum offers 7 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 | Lyceum | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
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-- | $1.10 /GPU/hr Spot | Lyceum only |
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-- | $2.99 /GPU/hr Spot | Lyceum only |
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-- | $2.40 /GPU/hr Spot | Lyceum only |
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-- | $0.99 /GPU/hr Spot | Lyceum only |
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-- | $1.60 /GPU/hr Spot | Lyceum only |
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-- | $0.80 /GPU/hr Spot | Lyceum only |
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-- | $1.19 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lyceum only |
Lyceum bills on-demand and spot. 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 | Lyceum |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 2025 |
| Headquarters | USA | Germany |
| Locations | 18 | 3 |
| Example customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase | -- |
| Website | fly.io | lyceum.technology |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Lyceum on Oct. 2, 2026.