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SmolClouds vs Fly.io
Fly.io runs Firecracker microVMs too, with fine-grained control over regions and machine lifecycle. SmolClouds wraps a narrower slice of that in an app-shaped product.
What Fly.io is good at
- •Global, multi-region placement with fine control
- •Full control over machine sizing and lifecycle
- •Running databases and stateful services next to the app
What SmolClouds optimises for
- •An app-level interface rather than a machine-level one
- •Snapshot restore as the default path, not an opt-in optimisation
- •Fleets of tiny apps that share a runtime base image
Choose Fly.io when
You want to design the infrastructure yourself.
Choose SmolClouds when
You would rather not think about machines at all.
A note on numbers
We do not publish cost or latency comparisons against other platforms until we have a benchmark we can describe and you can reproduce. When those exist they will appear here with their method attached.
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