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 RunPod

  • Affordable GPUs in various configurations
  • Packed with features: hot-reloading, managed containers, logging & monitoring
  • Available in 30+ regions across the world

Price comparison

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

Example configuration Fly.io RunPod
VM Small $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x) $43.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Medium $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x) $86.40 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Large $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x) $172.80 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
Block Storage $15.00 / mo 100 GB $10.00 / mo $0.10 / GB / 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) Free and unlimited

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

RunPod offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
RTX3070 1x RTX3070 8GB 16 31GB $0.13
A4000 1x A4000 16GB 4 17GB $0.17
A4500 1x A4500 20GB 4 29GB $0.19
A4000 Ada 1x A4000 20GB 4 31GB $0.20
A30 1x A30 24GB 8 31GB $0.22
A5000 1x A5000 24GB 4 24GB $0.22
RTX4090 1x RTX4090 24GB 7 24GB $0.44
A40 1x A40 48GB 9 50GB $0.47
A6000 1x A6000 48GB 8 50GB $0.49
L40S 1x L40S 48GB 12 62GB $0.79
A6000 Ada 1x A6000 48GB 14 62GB $0.79
MI250 1x MI250 128GB -- -- $0.90
L40 1x L40S 48GB 16 250GB $0.99
A100 PCIe 1x A100 80GB 8 83GB $1.19
A100 SXM 1x A100 80GB 16 125GB $1.94
H100 PCIe 1x H100 80GB 16 176GB $2.69
H100 SXM 1x H100 80GB 24 125GB $2.99
MI300X 1x MI300X 192GB 24 283GB $3.99

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 RunPod offer:

Service Fly.io RunPod
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 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch
RunPod
Website www.runpod.io
Headquarters United States of America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Founded 2022
Data Center Locations 24
Example Customers AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu

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