What does hosting your stack actually cost?

Vercel Fluid compute pricing: what functions really cost

Active CPU is cheap; waiting is not free. Function bills for content sites, SSR apps, CPU-heavy pages and AI routes, and where they sit in a full Vercel invoice.

Hetzner CX and CAX out of stock: what to buy instead

The €6 Hetzner box is gone for new orders. Hetzner’s own fallbacks cost 3–4× more; here is who sells 4, 8 and 16GB for less, and where 20TB of traffic still wins.

Claude Haiku 5.5 pricing: the 100K-token cliff, costed

Haiku 5.5 is a tenth of Haiku 4.5’s price, level with GPT-6 Luna — but one token past 100K multiplies the whole request by five. Per-request maths, three monthly workloads, and how to stay under the line.

Fly.io price increase: the October 2026 maths

Fly.io’s RAM price went up 20% on 1 October 2026; CPU did not move. Old vs new for 12 presets, what that does to four typical apps, regions, reservations, and how Fly now compares.

netcup G12.5 price rise vs Hetzner: the new math

G12 is gone for new orders: VPS prices up ~40%, disks halved, root servers up 70–110%. Every term priced out, and who is cheaper per GB of RAM now.

Koyeb pricing after Mistral: what $29 buys

Since February 2026 every new Koyeb account starts at $29/month. Instance maths, a full web + worker + Postgres bill on five platforms, and where Koyeb is still the cheap option.

Managed Redis pricing 2026: real bills at 3 sizes

A cache, a session store or a job queue — the Redis line on a small app’s bill ranges from $4 to $200 for the same workload. Five providers priced at three sizes, plus the per-command crossover.

Vercel Flat Rate CDN: who saves and who pays more

The new tiers look like a bandwidth deal, but CDN requests pick your tier. Four traffic levels priced both ways, the tier-edge trap, and how to measure your own number.

Managed Postgres pricing 2026: real bills at 3 sizes

The database is often the biggest line on a small app’s bill. Seven managed Postgres providers priced line by line at three sizes — the cheapest changes at every size.

Leaving Heroku in 2026: what the move really costs

Heroku froze new features in Feb 2026. Same web + worker + Postgres app priced on Render, Railway and Fly — small apps may not save a cent.

Hetzner price increase 2026: old vs new prices

CX and CAX up 30–38%, CPX and CCX more than doubled, the cheap lines out of stock. Official old vs new prices and who is cheap now.

Kinsta vs Cloudways 2026: real cost compared

Two different pricing models wearing the same label. Cost at four traffic levels, where the gap sits, and who should pick which.

LLM API pricing in 2026: what a million tokens really costs

Every major model priced per million tokens, a real workload costed on each — and why the "cheap" tier is no longer that cheap.

Semrush vs Ahrefs in 2026: what you actually pay

Tier-by-tier on price, not feature worship: what Semrush and Ahrefs really cost, who lets you try before paying, and which fits which job.

Cheapest managed WordPress hosting in 2026

Managed WordPress ranked by real price: budget, mid, and premium — and the cheaper DIY-VPS route, with the honest trade-off spelled out.

Is Vercel worth it in 2026? The real math

What Vercel really costs, what you give up by leaving, and a decision framework with real numbers — not "VPS go brrr".