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
Scaleway
- Plenty managed services available, from queues to serverless to databases
- Wide range of server configurations: Bare-metal, ARM, GPUs, Apple silicon
- Uncomplicated, easy to use dashboard
- Based in Europe, may ease compliance requirements for some
Price comparison
How do Fly.io's prices compare against Scaleway?
Example configuration |
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VM Small | $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x) | $10.89 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) |
VM Medium | $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x) | $42.47 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) |
VM Large | $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x) | $173.14 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S) |
Block Storage | $15.00 / mo 100 GB | $10.34 / mo 100 GB |
Object Storage | $21.00 / mo 1 TB | $15.79 / mo 1 TB |
Load Balancer | Included in plan | $12.54 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps) |
Managed PostgreSQL | $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | $34.84 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage |
Managed Redis®* | -- | $38.11 / mo 2 GB RAM |
Serverless 25M Executions | -- | $28.58 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration |
Free egress allowance | 100 GB / mo | -- |
1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $20.00 $0.02 / GB (Public network North America) | Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size |
Fly.io offers GPUs in the following configurations:
Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
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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 |
Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:
Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
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L4-1-24G | 1x L4 | 24GB | 8 | 48GB | $0.82 | Launch |
GPU-3070 | 1x RTX 3070 | 8GB | 8 | 16GB | $1.07 | Source |
Render-S | 1x P100 | 16GB | 10 | 42GB | $1.35 | Source |
L40S-1-48G | 1x L40S | 48GB | 8 | 96GB | $1.52 | Launch |
L4-2-24G | 2x L4 | 48GB | 16 | 96GB | $1.63 | Source |
H100-1-80G | 1x H100 | 80GB | 24 | 240GB | $2.74 | Launch |
L40S-2-48G | 2x L40S | 96GB | 16 | 192GB | $3.05 | Source |
L4-4-24G | 4x L4 | 96GB | 32 | 192GB | $3.27 | Source |
H100-2-80G | 2x H100 | 160GB | 48 | 480GB | $5.49 | Source |
L40S-4-48G | 4x L40S | 192GB | 32 | 384GB | $6.10 | Source |
L4-8-24G | 8x L4 | 192GB | 64 | 384GB | $6.53 | Source |
L40S-8-48G | 8x L40S | 384GB | 64 | 768GB | $12.20 | 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 Scaleway offer:
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Block Storage | ||
Container Registry | -- | |
GPU-powered Servers | ||
Load Balancer | ||
Managed Containers | ||
Managed Kubernetes | ||
Managed MySQL | -- | |
Managed PostgreSQL | ||
Managed Redis®* | -- | |
Object Storage | ||
Serverless Functions | -- | |
Static Sites | -- | |
Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Company details
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Website | fly.io | scaleway.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | France 🇫🇷 |
Founded | 2017 | 1999 |
Data Center Locations | 35 | 9 |
Example Customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai |
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Website | fly.io |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2017 |
Data Center Locations | 35 |
Example Customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch |
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Website | scaleway.com |
Headquarters | France 🇫🇷 |
Founded | 1999 |
Data Center Locations | 9 |
Example Customers | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Scaleway on Sept. 28, 2024.