Fly.io vs Vultr

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Fly.io

Excellent tooling and developer experience
Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
Wide range of instance configurations at competitive prices

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	Vultr
Website	fly.io	www.vultr.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2017	2014
Data Center Locations	35	32
Example Customers	Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch	Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield

	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