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 --

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

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 of the 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 🇺🇸
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch
Shadeform
Website shadeform.ai
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
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 July 24, 2024, and for Shadeform on Aug. 16, 2024.