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 Thunder Compute

  • Offers affordable cloud GPUs, including A100 and H100 instances.
  • Simple, pay-as-you-go pricing model.
  • Focused on maximizing hardware utilization to provide lower costs.

Price comparison

How do Fly.io's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Example configuration Fly.io Thunder Compute
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 $15.00 / mo $0.15 per GB/month 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 GPUs

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

Thunder Compute GPUs

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
Tesla T4 1x T4 16GB 4 32GB $0.27 Source
A100 (40GB) 1x A100 40GB 4 32GB $0.57 Source
A100 (80GB) 1x A100 80GB 4 32GB $0.78 Source
H100 1x H100 80GB 4 32GB $1.47 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 Thunder Compute offer:

Service Fly.io Thunder Compute
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 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch
Thunder Compute
Website thundercompute.com
Headquarters United States of America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Founded 2024
Data Center Locations 1
Example Customers KronosAI, Abbvie

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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Thunder Compute on June 7, 2025.