GPT-6 Astra bills $10/$50, Opus 5.5 $4/$20, Gemini 4 Carbon doubles to $4/$20 on December 1, DeepSeek V4-Pro runs $0.66-$1.32 input. Cache economics, surcharges, worked bills.
Bunny at $0.01/GB, CloudFront's $15 plan with 50TB, Cloudflare's unmetered-but-restricted CDN, Fastly's 2025 reprice β worked bills at real traffic levels.
Confluent vs MSK vs Redpanda vs Aiven at November 2026 list prices: the $547.50 idle MSK Serverless floor, Confluent's free eCKU, Redpanda's $73 floor, and worked bills for one pipeline.
EKS vs GKE vs AKS vs DOKS on November 2026 list prices: $73 control planes, the $438 extended-support trap, per-pod Autopilot billing, and worked monthly bills for the same 3-node cluster.
RunPod vs Lambda vs Vast.ai vs CoreWeave on November 2026 pricing: per-second billing, a 15% Lambda hike effective November 16, marketplace medians, $49.24 H100 nodes, and four worked bills for the same 96 GPU-hours.
Upstash vs Redis Cloud vs Dragonfly Cloud vs ElastiCache on November 2026 pricing: per-command billing, the $91 idle floor, HA memory doubling, and four worked workloads.
Railway vs Render vs Fly.io vs Heroku on real November 2026 pricing: per-second billing, the $25 workspace fee, $2.19 microVMs, dyno ladders, and three worked workloads.
Neon vs Supabase vs PlanetScale vs Amazon RDS on real November 2026 pricing: CU-hour metering, the $25-to-$599 Supabase ladder, PlanetScale Metal, Aurora's new 0-ACU pause, and three worked workloads from side project to I/O-heavy production.
Hetzner vs DigitalOcean vs Vultr vs Linode on real 2026 pricing: entry-tier specs, egress overage math, managed ecosystem trade-offs, and which cheap VPS fits side projects, EU-first products, and global traffic-heavy apps.
Spacelift, env0, Scalr, and self-hosted Atlantis compared on 2026 pricing: per-resource vs per-run billing, free tiers, drift detection, OpenTofu support, and which Terraform Cloud alternative fits each team size.