Cloud & Infrastructure · head to head
OVHcloud vs Fly.io
OVHcloud
Cloud & Infrastructure
Advanced cloud services for businesses
- From
- €3.5/month
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Only Fly.io has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
- Each has a real cost: OVHcloud public Cloud pricing table lists a scheduled price change with a column labeled Price on April 1, 2026, showing current rates are promotional and set to change on that date; Fly.io egress is priced by destination region, from $0.02 per GB in North America and Europe to $0.12 per GB for Africa and India, so the same traffic costs six times more depending on where users are
- They diverge on capability: OVHcloud covers Public Cloud, Fly.io covers Global deployment.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which OVHcloud and Fly.io actually diverge.
Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated), category (Cloud & Infrastructure).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in OVHcloud
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- Bare Metal Servers
- Managed Kubernetes
- Object Storage
- Block Storage
- Load Balancers
- Databases
Only in Fly.io
- Global deployment
- Docker support
- Postgres databases
- Redis support
- Auto-scaling
- Health checks
- Backups
- Monitoring
Both cover
- Docker
- Cloud deployment
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
OVHcloud
- Businesses running public cloud compute and storage workloads on European infrastructurenot Fly.io
Fly.io
- Deploying containerised applications close to users across regionsnot OVHcloud
- Running full stack apps and databases on managed machinesnot OVHcloud
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
OVHcloud
- Public Cloud pricing table lists a scheduled price change with a column labeled Price on April 1, 2026, showing current rates are promotional and set to change on that date
- Free network traffic and free Object Storage API calls exclude the Asia-Pacific region
Fly.io
- Egress is priced by destination region, from $0.02 per GB in North America and Europe to $0.12 per GB for Africa and India, so the same traffic costs six times more depending on where users are
- Stopped machines still bill at $0.15 per GB of root filesystem a month, so a paused service is not a free one
- Volumes are billed on provisioned capacity rather than usage, at $0.15 per GB a month
- Reservation discounts of 40% require paying a year up front, from $36 to $1,440
- Fly Kubernetes is a separate $75 a month per cluster
- Dedicated IPv4 addresses are $2 a month each
Pricing, plan by plan
OVHcloud
€3.5/month- Public Cloud Starter$3.5/month
- 1 vCPU
- 1 GB RAM
- 10 GB storage
- Bare Metal$49/month
- Dedicated hardware
- High performance
- Full control
Fly.io
Free- FreeFree
- 3 shared-cpu-1x VMs
- 3GB persistence storage
- 160GB outbound data/month
- Pay-as-you-goFree
- Unlimited applications
- Dedicated machines
- Global deployment
Which should you pick?
Choose OVHcloud if
- You need public cloud.
- You work on Linux, Windows, Api, Cli.
- You also want private cloud.
Choose Fly.io if
- You need global deployment.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on Web, Api, Docker.
- You also want docker support.
Questions people ask
- Is OVHcloud or Fly.io better?
- Neither clearly leads. OVHcloud starts at €3.5/month and Fly.io at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, OVHcloud or Fly.io?
- Fly.io has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at €3.5/month for OVHcloud and Free for Fly.io.
- Does OVHcloud or Fly.io run on more platforms?
- OVHcloud runs on Linux, Windows, Api, Cli. Fly.io runs on Web, Api, Docker.
- Can I use Fly.io for free?
- Yes. Fly.io has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. OVHcloud starts at €3.5/month.
- What is OVHcloud best used for?
- OVHcloud is most often used for businesses running public cloud compute and storage workloads on european infrastructure. Of those, businesses running public cloud compute and storage workloads on european infrastructure is not what Fly.io is typically brought in for.
- What can OVHcloud do that Fly.io cannot?
- OVHcloud covers Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Bare Metal Servers, Managed Kubernetes. Fly.io covers Global deployment, Docker support, Postgres databases, Redis support. Both handle Docker, Cloud deployment.