Fly.io
vs
Paperspace
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
- Competitive GPU prices
- Managed platform, from notebooks to container-based clusters
- Free ingress and egress
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Fly.io | Paperspace | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x) | $6.48 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (C2) | 12% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Medium VM | $42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x) | $57.60 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (C5) | 26% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Large VM | $248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x) | $115.20 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (C6) | 54% cheaper on Paperspace |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | $7.00 /mo 100 GB SSD · Billed hourly, capped at $7.00 / mo | 53% cheaper on Paperspace |
| 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 allowance | -- Not listed | Free and unlimited | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe) | -- Not listed |
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
Paperspace offers 12 GPU models. We don't currently list GPU prices for Fly.io.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Fly.io | Paperspace |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Data centers only |
| ISO 27001 | Data centers only | Data centers only |
| HIPAA | Yes | -- |
| GDPR | Yes | -- |
| PCI DSS | -- | Level 1, data centers only |
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 | Paperspace |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 2014 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 18 | 3 |
| Example customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase | Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando |
| Website | fly.io | paperspace.com |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Paperspace on Oct. 21, 2026.