Use Case
Production-grade multi-service SaaS application with high availability across 2 regions.
Stack Components:
- Web Application: 2 instances (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM each) - 2 regions for HA
- API Backend: 2 instances (4 vCPU, 8GB RAM each) - 2 regions for HA
- Background Workers: 2 instances (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM each) - 2 regions for HA
- PostgreSQL Database: 2 instances (4 vCPU, 16GB RAM, 100GB storage each) - Primary + Replica
- Redis Cache: 2 instances (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM each) - 2 regions for HA
Total Resources: 28 vCPU, 72GB RAM, 200GB storage (14 vCPU, 36GB RAM per region)
Competitor Pricing
Fly.io
Total: $1,018/month
- Web App: $124/month (performance-2x × 2)
- API Backend: $248/month (performance-4x × 2)
- Workers: $124/month (performance-2x × 2)
- Redis: $124/month (performance-2x × 2)
- PostgreSQL: $358/month (Custom Fly Postgres × 2)
- Storage: $30/month (200GB)
- Bandwidth: $10/month (500GB)
Render
Total: $1,480/month
- Web App: $170/month (Pro plan × 2)
- API Backend: $350/month (Pro Plus plan × 2)
- Workers: $170/month (Pro plan × 2)
- PostgreSQL: $460/month (Pro-16GB × 2)
- Redis: $270/month (Pro plan × 2)
- Storage: $60/month (200GB)
- Bandwidth: Included (500GB-1TB with Pro plans)
DigitalOcean
Total: $1,233/month
- Web App: $156/month (Dedicated × 2)
- API Backend: $312/month (Dedicated × 2)
- Workers: $156/month (Dedicated × 2)
- PostgreSQL: $489/month (6 vCPU, 16GB RAM × 2)
- Redis: $120/month (4GB RAM × 2)
- Storage: Included (290GB+ with PostgreSQL plan)
- Bandwidth: Included (500GB+ per instance)
Multicloud Pricing
Multicloud.io
Total: $125-$220/month
Uses pod co-location to run multiple services (Web App, API, Workers, Redis) as containers on fewer machines (8 vCPU, 16GB RAM per instance).
- Consolidated App Servers: $44.20-$97.92/month (8 vCPU, 16GB RAM × 2 instances)
- Database: $47.96-$55.30/month (4 vCPU, 16GB RAM, 100GB storage × 2 instances - on-demand)
- Storage: $16-$35/month (200GB General Purpose SSD)
- Bandwidth: $17-$36/month (300-500GB outbound, after 100GB free)
Key Advantages
- 85-92% savings vs Render
- 81-88% savings vs Fly.io
- 84-90% savings vs DigitalOcean
- Your cloud accounts,your discounts, your credits, your control
- Access to entire cloud provider catalogs
- Use spot instances while maintaining SLA
3-Year Total Cost of Ownership
Methodology
Pricing Sources
- Multicloud: Actual catalog pricing from multicloud.io/catalog (as of 2025)
- Fly.io: Performance (Dedicated) instances pricing from fly.io pricing page
- Render: Team/Organization plans from render.com pricing
- DigitalOcean: Dedicated instances from digitalocean.com pricing
Assumptions
- 24/7 operation (730 hours/month)
- US East and US West regions
- Moderate traffic load (300-500GB bandwidth/month)
- High availability (2 regions, primary + replica for database)
Storage & Bandwidth
- Storage: General Purpose SSD (AWS gp3: $0.08/GB, GCP pd-balanced: $0.10/GB, Azure Premium SSD: ~$0.14/GB)
- Bandwidth: All providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) offer 100GB free bandwidth per month, then charge $0.085-$0.09/GB
- Competitors typically include bandwidth in instance pricing
Important Notes
List Prices: All pricing is based on published list prices. Cloud providers offer up to 60% additionaldiscounts for committed use (e.g., AWS Reserved Instances, GCP Committed Use Discounts).
Cloud Credits: If you have free cloud credits (e.g., AWS/GCP startup credits of $100k), your effective cost may be $0 when using Multicloud, as it runs on your own cloud account.
Managed Databases: Multicloud also supports fully managed database services (AWS RDS, GCP Cloud SQL, Azure Database) with multi-AZ high availability, priced at $385-$485/month.