The Canyon Review· 1 min read
The unattached volume audit
One console filter, one Tuesday, real money. A one-pager.
#cloud#cost
Costs
9 articles
· 2 min read
Auth providers, priced at the MAU cliff
Auth0, Clerk, Supabase Auth, Cognito, FusionAuth and Keycloak priced at 1k, 10k and 100k monthly active users. The cliffs are the story.
#auth#pricing#security
· 2 min read
Object storage price math, with the egress included this time
S3, R2, B2 and GCS priced on a real workload including the egress bill vendors hope you'll forget. One clear winner for serving files.
#storage#pricing#cloud
· 2 min read
CDN pricing, torn down to cents per gigabyte
Cloudflare, CloudFront, Fastly and Bunny priced on the same 10 TB month. The per-GB spread is wider than most vendor comparisons admit.
#cdn#pricing#infrastructure
· 2 min read
The observability bill, torn down line by line
Where Datadog, Grafana Cloud and self-hosted stacks actually charge you. Hosts, custom metrics, ingest and the cardinality trap, priced.
#observability#pricing#monitoring
· 1 min read
If the pricing needs a calculator, budget for the calculator
A one-pager on the strongest pricing signal we know.
#pricing
· 2 min read
The middle tier is usually the right tier
Vendors design three-tier pricing around one tier they want you in and two decoys. The pattern, the exceptions, and how to check in five minutes.
#pricing#procurement
· 2 min read
A free tier is a pricing page, not a product
The three kinds of free tier, how to tell which one you are holding, and the graduation cliff that turns $0 into the most expensive plan we track.
#pricing#free-tiers
· 2 min read
The SSO tax, priced and scored
Single sign-on regularly costs 2x to 4x the base plan, and one vendor wants 41x. What the wall of shame documents, and how to score it in procurement.
#pricing#sso#procurement