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 UpCloud

  • Wide range of managed services, from databases to Kubernetes to object storage
  • Offers 100% SLA with 50x compensation for service outages
  • Based in the EU, may ease GDPR compliance

Price comparison

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

Example configuration Fly.io UpCloud
VM Small $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x) $7.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (General)
VM Medium $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x) $56.47 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (General)
VM Large $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x) $173.76 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (High CPU)
Block Storage $15.00 / mo 100 GB $23.89 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $21.00 / mo 1 TB $21.72 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer Included in plan $10.86 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage $65.16 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®* -- $54.30 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM
Free egress allowance 100 GB / mo --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $20.00 Free and unlimited

Fly.io offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs Total GPU Memory vCPUs RAM Price per hour
A10 1x A10 24GB -- -- $1.50
L40S 1x L40S 48GB -- -- $2.50
A100 40G PCIe 1x A100 40GB -- -- $2.50
A100 80G SXM 1x A100 80GB -- -- $3.50

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 UpCloud offer:

Service Fly.io UpCloud
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer
Managed Containers --
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®* --
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
UpCloud
Website upcloud.com
Headquarters Finland 🇫🇮
Founded 2012
Data Center Locations 13
Example Customers Xensam, HackTheBox, LeadDesk

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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for UpCloud on July 24, 2024.