Guides
Long-form, numbers-first breakdowns. Every guide pulls from the same live pricing data as the calculators — no marketing claims, no rankings skewed toward anyone who pays us.
2026-10-08
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.
2026-10-07
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.
2026-10-03
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.
2026-10-01
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.
2026-09-29
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.
2026-09-26
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.
2026-09-24
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.
2026-08-28
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.
2026-08-28
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.
2026-08-28
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.
2026-06-15
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.
2026-06-14
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.
2026-06-13
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".