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 Shadeform

  • Launch instances anywhere with a single console and API
  • Leverage a multi-cloud set up, without the hassle
  • You can reserve instances in advance to ensure GPU availability
  • Free to use, zero mark-up fees

Price comparison

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

Example configuration Fly.io Shadeform
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 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

Shadeform does not charge any fees to use their marketplace. You pay the same price as using the cloud providers directly.

Here are some example configurations:

GPU VRAM Price range (per hour)
Nvidia A4000 16 GB $0.30-0.80
Nvidia A6000 48 GB $0.57-1.93
Nvidia V100 16 GB $0.69-3.06
Nvidia L40S 48 GB $0.99-1.15
Nvidia A100 40 GB $1.29-3.19
Nvidia H100 80 GB $2.48-5.99

You can view the full list here.

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 Shadeform offer:

Service Fly.io Shadeform
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 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch
Shadeform
Website shadeform.ai
Headquarters United States of America πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
Founded 2023
Data Center Locations --
Example Customers University of California Berkeley, Magic Studio, Neets.ai, MK1

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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Shadeform on Aug. 16, 2024.