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
Render
Website render.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2018
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt

Cost Comparison

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

Example configuration Fly.io Render
VM Small $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x) $25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service)
VM Medium $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x) $175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service)
VM Large $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x) $450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service)
Block Storage $15.00 / mo 100 GB $25.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $21.00 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer Included in plan Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage $95.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* -- $32.00 / mo 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance 100 GB / mo 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $20.00 $300.00

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 Render offer:

Service Fly.io Render
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®* --
Object Storage --
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

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