50-75% cheaper compute at scale than traditional PaaS
AWS pricing is slightly more complex, but you gain tremendous savings and advantages
Per-service + AWS cost
Single user
Free
1 user
Commercial use
GitHub organizations
GitHub collaborators
You're still responsible for any AWS costs
Starter
$49/month
Includes 5 services then
+$15/service
Multiple users
Preview environments
Slack notifications
Role-based access control
No credit card required
Business
$249/month
Includes 10 services then
+$30/service
Multiple users
Preview environments
Slack notifications
Role-based access control
Multi-region
No credit card required
How does this compare to other PaaS?
Here's a realistic example to compare
| Flightcontrol | Render | Railway | Heroku | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web server 2 vCPU / 4 GB 2 instances | $72 | $170 | $160 | $500* |
| Background worker 2 vCPU / 4 GB 1 instance | $27 | $85 | $80 | $250* |
| Postgres 20 GB storage | $12 | $20 | $15 | $50 |
| Redis 20 GB storage | $24 | $32 | $15 | $30 |
| Total infra cost | $167 | $307 | $270 | $830 |
| PaaS subscription 5 users / 4 services | $49 or $249 | $95 or $145 | $100 | $0 |
| Total cost | $215 or $416 | $402 or $452 | $370 | $830 |
Updated 2024-07-03
Fully understand the AWS costs
Servers
You can deploy to ECS+EC2 or ECS+Fargate.
EC2 is cheaper and more customizable. Fargate is simpler.
CPU
$29/vCPU
Memory
$3.20/GB
+ ~$17/month for load balancer for web services
Static sites
~$0/month
Databases
$12/month and up, depending on size
Redis
$24/month and up, depending on size
See instance prices
*Multiply instance cost by 2
Live AWS cost display
In our dashboard, see exactly how much each project, environment, and service is costing
How does Flightcontrol cost scale?
Frequently Asked Questions
How are services counted? In Flightcontrol, a service is any server, static site, database, or cache. In other words, each square service card that shows in your Flightcontrol environment is counted as a service. The billable service count accumulates across environments. For example, 2 environments with 3 services each equals 6 billable services.
How are preview environment services counted? They are counted only once. If you have a server and a database in the preview environment, you are billed for 2 services regardless of how many pull requests are deployed
Does Flightcontrol cost include AWS cost? No, Flightcontrol cost is in addition to AWS cost. You pay your AWS costs directly to AWS. Flightcontrol provides a live display of AWS cost in our dashboard, so you can easily monitor these costs.
What's the cheapest compute available with Flightcontrol? A single Fargate web service with 0.25 CPU and 0.5 GB memory costs about $9/month + $17/month load balancer for a total of about $30/month after you account builds, etc. With the EC2 option, you can have a $3/month server, but it adds a $32/mo NAT gateway, so the cheapest cost with EC2 is about $55/month.
Can I use AWS credits? Yes! Your AWS credits can fully cover your AWS costs. We're working on consolidated billing, but in the meantime credits can't be used to pay the Flightcontrol cost. Here's a guide to get free AWS credits.