What's good about...

Fly.io logo Fly.io

  • Excellent tooling and developer experience
  • Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
  • Wide range of instance configurations at competitive prices

Fly.io logo Replicate

  • Run AI/ML models without having to manage the infrastructure
  • Excellent web UI to explore and try out models without code
  • Train and deploy custom models using Cog

Price comparison

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

Example configuration Fly.io Replicate
VM Small $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x) --
VM Medium $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x) --
VM Large $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x) --
Block Storage $15.00 / mo 100 GB --
Object Storage $21.00 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer Included in plan --
Managed PostgreSQL $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage --
Free egress allowance 100 GB / mo --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $20.00 $0.02 / GB (Public network North America) --

Fly.io offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
L40S 1x L40S 48GB -- -- $1.25
A10 1x A10 24GB -- -- $1.50
A100 40G PCIe 1x A100 40GB -- -- $2.50
A100 80G SXM 1x A100 80GB -- -- $3.50

Replicate uses a metered billing model. You only pay as long as your code is running, billed by the second based on the hardware selected.

Replicate offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
Nvidia T4 1x T4 16GB 4 16GB $0.81
Nvidia A40 (Small) 1x A40 48GB 4 16GB $2.07
Nvidia A40 (Large) 1x A40 48GB 10 72GB $2.61
Nvidia A100 (40GB) 1x A100 40GB 10 72GB $4.14
Nvidia A100 (80GB) 1x A100 80GB 10 144GB $5.04
2x Nvidia A40 (Large) 2x A40 96GB 20 144GB $5.22
2x Nvidia A100 (40GB) 2x A100 80GB 20 144GB $8.28
2x Nvidia A100 (80GB) 2x A100 160GB 20 288GB $10.08
4x Nvidia A40 (Large) 4x A40 192GB 40 288GB $10.44
4x Nvidia A100 (40GB) 4x A100 160GB 40 288GB $16.56
4x Nvidia A100 (80GB) 4x A100 320GB 40 576GB $20.16
8x Nvidia A40 (Large) 8x A40 384GB 48 680GB $20.88
8x Nvidia A100 (80GB) 8x A100 640GB 80 960GB $40.32

Note: Our 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 Replicate offer:

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

Company details

Fly.io
Website fly.io
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch
Replicate
Website replicate.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2019
Data Center Locations --
Example Customers BuzzFeed, PhotoAI, Magnific, Unsplash, HeadshotPro

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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Replicate on Sept. 25, 2024.