Fly.io
vs
TheAI Cloud
What's good about each
- Excellent tooling and developer experience
- Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
- Per-second billing, with a 40% discount for reserved compute blocks
- Anycast networking and global load balancing included at no extra cost
- Bare metal nodes with root access, no virtualization
- Reserved terms from 1 to 24 months
- 400G InfiniBand per GPU on B300 nodes
- 3TB DDR5 per node, up to 32TB local NVMe
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Fly.io | TheAI Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $20.50 /mo 1 TB (Tigris) | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $86.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Starter) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $20.00 /mo 1 GB data (Upstash Fixed 1GB) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | Included with apps | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe) | -- Not listed |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
TheAI Cloud offers 2 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Fly.io. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Fly.io | TheAI Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
B300
5 configs
|
-- | $4.90 /GPU/hr Reserved (24 mo) | TheAI Cloud only |
|
H200
3 configs
|
-- | $3.20 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | TheAI Cloud only |
TheAI Cloud bills reserved (1, 3, 6, 12 or 24 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Fly.io | TheAI Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | -- |
| Headquarters | USA | UAE |
| Locations | 18 | 1 |
| Example customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase | -- |
| Website | fly.io | cloud.theai.com |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Aug. 24, 2026, and for TheAI Cloud on Sept. 12, 2026.