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 Vultr

  • Good selection VPS configurations (GPU, dedicated, high memory)
  • Offers managed services (databases, Kubernetes, object storage)
  • Competitive pricing, generous egress
  • 30+ data center locations around the world

Price comparison

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

Example configuration Fly.io Vultr
VM Small $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x) $5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x) $40.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Large $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x) $160.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage $15.00 / mo 100 GB $10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $21.00 / mo 1 TB $6.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer Included in plan $10.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage
Managed Redis®* -- $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance 100 GB / mo 2 TB / mo for most services
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $20.00 $0.02 / GB (Public network North America) $10.00 $0.01 / GB

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

Vultr offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
A16 1x A16 16GB 6 64GB $0.51 Launch
A16 2x A16 96GB 12 128GB $1.02 Launch
A40 1x A40 48GB 24 120GB $1.86 Launch
A16 4x A16 192GB 24 256GB $2.05 Launch
L40S 1x L40S 48GB 16 240GB $2.23 Source
A100 80GB 1x A100 80GB 12 120GB $2.60 Launch
GH200 1x GH200 96GB 72 480GB $3.32 Source
A16 8x A16 384GB 48 486GB $4.09 Launch
A40 4x A40 192GB 96 480GB $7.44 Launch
A16 16x A16 768GB 96 960GB $9.19 Launch
HGX A100 8x A100 5120GB 112 2048GB $12.90 Source
H100 8x H100 640GB 112 2048GB $18.40 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 Vultr offer:

Service Fly.io Vultr
Block Storage
Container Registry --
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
Vultr
Website www.vultr.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2014
Data Center Locations 32
Example Customers Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield

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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Vultr on Sept. 28, 2024.