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16 articles

· 1 min read

pgvector vs. the dedicated vector databases, priced

For most teams the vector database is a Postgres extension you already have. The price check, the crossover point, and who should actually pay for dedicated.

#vectors#databases#pricing

· 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

Feature flag platforms, ranked before you overbuy

LaunchDarkly, PostHog, Flagsmith, Unleash and a config file, ranked for teams under twenty engineers. Most of you need less than you think.

#feature-flags#delivery#pricing

· 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

· 2 min read

Serverless databases, ranked by cold honesty

Neon, PlanetScale, Turso, DynamoDB and Cloudflare D1 ranked on what serverless pricing actually does to a normal app's bill.

#databases#serverless#pricing

· 2 min read

Managed Postgres, ranked by what you actually pay

Five managed Postgres providers ranked for a small production app. Real monthly prices, the branching gimmicks that matter, and the one to skip.

#postgres#databases#pricing

· 2 min read

Static hosting shootout, free tiers included

Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages and an S3 bucket, ranked for actually-static sites. Bandwidth fine print exposed.

#hosting#delivery#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

· 2 min read

CI providers, priced on three real repos

GitHub Actions, GitLab, CircleCI and Buildkite priced against the same three repositories. The per-minute math nobody does before picking.

#ci#delivery#pricing