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Fly Kubernetes (FKS) · $75/mo
Fly.io FKS at $75/mo is competitively priced for a managed Kubernetes control plane, sitting between Linode's $60/mo HA option and Azure/Google Cloud/Oracle at $73-74/mo. However, real value depends heavily on your node count, region, egress patterns, and whether you need HA—Linode and Oracle offer similar or lower control-plane fees with potentially lower hidden costs if you avoid premium regions and high egress.
Flat $60/mo for HA control plane is $15 cheaper than Fly.io, with transparent per-GB egress billing ($0.005/GB compute) and no region-based machine price premiums.
Caveat: Backups are a separate add-on (20-25% of instance cost per node), and HA control plane is an add-on rather than standard.
Capped at $74.40/mo for enhanced cluster with financially-backed 99.95% SLA, nearly identical to Fly.io but with clearer cost ceiling and no region-based surcharges on compute.
Caveat: Block Volume performance (VPU) is billed separately from capacity, and early-deletion penalties apply to Archive Storage.
$73/mo control plane with 99.95% SLA (99.9% without zones) and up to 5,000 nodes per cluster; no region-based machine premiums if you stay in standard regions.
Caveat: Windows Server VMs carry license surcharges, Premium SSD/Ultra Disk IOPS billed separately, and early-deletion penalties on cool/cold storage tiers.
$73/mo flat cluster fee with 99.99% SLA and per-second billing; sustained-use and committed-use discounts can lower effective node costs significantly.
Caveat: Custom machine types carry a 5% premium, network egress is metered above 200 GiB/month free tier, and early-deletion penalties apply to Nearline/Coldline/Archive storage.
Before you switch
| Provider | Plan | Price | Specs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IONOS | Managed Kubernetes · K8s RAM - per GB | $1.94/mo | Worker node RAM, control plane free | Visit |
| DigitalOcean | Kubernetes · NVIDIA H100 GPU node | $3.39/mo | 80 GB GPU RAM, 240 GiB Droplet RAM, 20 vCPUs (billed hourly, shown as monthly-equivalent placeholder) | Visit |
| Kamatera | Managed Kubernetes · Worker node = Type A Cloud VM (min) | $4/mo | No separate K8s pricing published. Worker nodes are billed at standard Cloud VM rates by CPU type; this row mirrors the Type A minimum (1 vCPU/1GB) as the cheapest possible worker node. No control-plane fee found -- likely bundled or unspecified. | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Rancher Service · OVHcloud Edition | $5.55/mo | Per vCPU/hour across all schedulable worker node vCPUs in downstream clusters. 20 vCPU minimum billed. | Visit |
| Linode (Akamai) | Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) · HA Control Plane | $60/mo | Flat $60/mo add-on for a highly-available, multi-master control plane; worker nodes billed separately | Visit |
| Microsoft Azure | Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) · Standard tier | $73/mo | SLA-backed control plane: 99.95% with availability zones, 99.9% without. Up to 5,000 nodes/cluster, API server autoscaling. Recommended for all production workloads. | Visit |
| Google Cloud | Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) · Cluster management fee | $73/mo | Flat fee per cluster regardless of mode/size/topology, billed per second | Visit |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) · Enhanced Cluster | $74.4/mo | $0.10/hour per cluster, capped at $74.40/month; financially-backed uptime SLA; advanced features (virtual nodes, workload identity). Worker nodes billed separately. | Visit |
| Scaleway | Kubernetes Kapsule · Dedicated Control Plane 4GB | $80/mo | Dedicated control plane, 4 GB RAM | Visit |
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