Fly.io vs RunPod

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Fly.io

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

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 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	Source
A10	1x A10	24GB	--	--	$1.50	Source
A100 40G PCIe	1x A100	40GB	--	--	$2.50	Source
A100 80G SXM	1x A100	80GB	--	--	$3.50	Source

RunPod offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
A30	1x A30	24GB	8	31GB	$0.22	Source
RTX A4000	1x A4000	16GB	4	20GB	$0.32	Source
A4500	1x A4500	20GB	4	29GB	$0.34	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	4	24GB	$0.36	Source
A40	1x A40	48GB	9	50GB	$0.39	Source
RTX4090	1x RTX 4090	24GB	5	30GB	$0.69	Source
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	62GB	$0.76	Source
A6000 Ada	1x A6000	48GB	14	58GB	$0.88	Source
L40	1x L40S	48GB	16	250GB	$0.99	Source
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	12	62GB	$1.03	Source
A100 PCIe	1x A100	80GB	8	117GB	$1.64	Source
A100 SXM	1x A100	80GB	16	125GB	$1.89	Source
MI250	1x MI250	128GB	--	--	$2.10	Source
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	24	188GB	$2.69	Source
H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	16	125GB	$2.99	Source
MI300X	1x MI300X	192GB	24	283GB	$2.99	Source
H200 SXM	1x H200	141GB	--	--	$3.99	Source

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 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	RunPod
Website	fly.io	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2017	2022
Data Center Locations	35	24
Example Customers	Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu

	Fly.io
Website	fly.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2017
Data Center Locations	35
Example Customers	Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch

	RunPod
Website	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2022
Data Center Locations	24
Example Customers	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu