Fly.io
vs
Oracle Cloud
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
- Great price-performance ratio
- Wide range of server configurations and managed services
- Comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud solutions
- 10 TB of free egress per month
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Fly.io | Oracle Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x) | $10.42 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | 45% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Medium VM | $42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x) | $27.53 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | 36% cheaper on Oracle Cloud |
| Large VM | $248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x) | $92.26 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | 2.7x more expensive on Fly.io |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | $4.25 /mo 100 GB | 3.5x more expensive on Fly.io |
| Object storage | $20.50 /mo 1 TB (Tigris) | $25.57 /mo | 20% cheaper on Fly.io |
| PostgreSQL | $86.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Starter) | $70.56 /mo 4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.Flex.E4) | 18% cheaper on Oracle Cloud |
| Redis | $20.00 /mo 1 GB data (Upstash Fixed 1GB) | $27.94 /mo 2 GB RAM | 28% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Load balancer | Included with apps | $7.86 /mo | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 10 TB / mo | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe) | $8.50 /TB $0.0085 / GB | 2.4x more expensive on Fly.io |
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
Oracle Cloud offers 15 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 | Oracle Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
1 config
|
-- | $10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- | $15.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
B200
1 config
|
-- | $14.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
H200
1 config
|
-- | $10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
-- | $4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
A100
2 configs
|
-- | $3.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
GB200
1 config
|
-- | $16.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
MI300X
1 config
|
-- | $6.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
MI355X
1 config
|
-- | $8.60 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
L40S
1 config
|
-- | $3.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
Oracle Cloud bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Fly.io | Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 18 | 39 |
| Example customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase | Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia |
| Website | fly.io | www.oracle.com |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Aug. 24, 2026, and for Oracle Cloud on Sept. 11, 2026.