# Funding and longevity

**URL:** <https://community.fly.io/t/funding-and-longevity/1957>\
**Category:** Questions / Help\
**Created:** [July 17, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/funding-and-longevity/1957 "2021-07-17T02:10:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![kurt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/kurt/32/43757_2.png) [@kurt](https://community.fly.io/u/kurt)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/funding-and-longevity/1957/5 "2021-07-18T17:04:05Z")

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> [@tj1](#):
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> After that, dedicated-cpu-1x / 2GB jumps to $31. I would imagine that is 2 vCPU - 1 core and 1 hyperthread. With 4GB, that is $40. That “looks” like the equivalent of a cpu-optimized droplet on DigitalOcean. Or maybe the dedicated cpu plans on Linode. And no one can compete with BuyVM on price/performance, so that’s a bad example.

Our dedicated-cpu-X VMs are very close to DigitalOcean cpu optimized droplets. They’re actually single vCPU (so one hyperthread), but not shared between VMs. `dedicated-cpu-2x` is the equivalent of a single core with both hyperthreads.

vCPUs are some hand wavy voodoo most of the time. We pay around $20-30/mo per core, so $10-15/mo per hyperthread. It varies by location so our costs are higher than someone like BuyVM.

> [@tj1](#):
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> Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but it seems that you’re missing shared-cpu-2x, shared-cpu-Nx? I know it’s not your value-prop, but do you have any rough comparisons/benchmarks? It would make transitioning easier.

We are missing those sizes and we need to ship them! Shared CPUs work really well for databases and things, and we’re getting pretty good at managing steal. The servers we use have enough CPUs that we can count on ~8 or more being idle at any given time.

We haven’t done any comparison benchmarks of our owns, but at least one person has done some work comparing us to FaaS services: [shared-cpu-1x performance on CPU bound tasks](https://community.fly.io/t/shared-cpu-1x-performance-on-cpu-bound-tasks/1293)

> [@austincollinpena](#):
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> For what it’s worth, I believe the founders have a successful exit in the past. Says a lot about the team behind Fly.

I’m not sure any exit _feels_ successful. 🙂 But we are all in a pretty fortunate spot and disinclined to sell our company.

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