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98
Services mapped
258
Pricing tiers
5
Growth stages
Your scale: Early Startup (1k-10k users)
Solo / HobbyEarly StartupGrowingScalingEnterprise
VercelHosting
Metric: Bandwidth / mo
Hobby
100 GB
Free
Pro
1 TB
$20/mo
$40/100GB overage
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
ClerkAuth
Metric: Monthly Active Users
Free
10k MAU
Free
Pro
10k+
$25 + $0.02/MAU over 10k
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
SupabaseBaaS
Metric: Database size
Free
500 MB
Free
Paused after 1 week inactive
Pro
8 GB
$25/mo
$0.125/GB overage
Team
8 GB
$599/mo
FirebaseBaaS
Metric: Firestore reads / day
Spark
50k reads
Free
Blaze
Pay as you go
$0.06/100k reads
StripePayments
Metric: Transaction volume
Standard
Unlimited
2.9% + $0.30
Custom
Unlimited
Volume discount at $1M+/yr
AlgoliaSearch
Metric: Records
Free
10k records
Free
Grow
100k records
$29/mo
Premium
1M+
$249+/mo
SentryMonitoring
Metric: Events / mo
Developer
5k events
Free
Team
50k events
$26/mo
Business
100k+
$80+/mo
PlanetScaleDatabase
Metric: Row reads / mo
Hobby
1B reads
Free
Scaler
100B reads
$29/mo
Overage: $1/B reads
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
PostHogAnalytics
Metric: Events / mo
Free
1M events
Free
Paid
2M+
$0.00045/event
ResendEmail
Metric: Emails / mo
Free
100/day
Free
Pro
50k/mo
$20/mo
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
RailwayHosting
Metric: RAM + CPU usage
Trial
$5 credit one-time
Free
Hobby
$5/mo credit + usage
$5/mo
Pro
32 GB RAM / service
$20/mo + usage
Cloudflare WorkersServerless
Metric: Requests / day
Free
100k req/day
Free
Paid
10M req/mo included
$5/mo
$0.30/M req extra
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
NeonDatabase
Metric: Compute hours / mo
Free
0.5 CU, 512 MB storage
Free
Scales to zero, cold start ~1s
Launch
Autoscaling up to 4 CU
$19/mo
$0.16/compute-hour extra
Scale
Autoscaling up to 8 CU
$69/mo
TursoDatabase
Metric: Storage + row reads
Free
500 DBs, 9GB storage, 1B reads/mo
Free
Scaler
Unlimited DBs, 24GB storage
$29/mo
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
OpenAI APIAI / LLM
Metric: Tokens / mo
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
$0.15/1M input tokens (gpt-4o-mini)
GPT-4o: $2.50/1M input
Committed usage
Custom
Volume discounts at $50k+/mo
Anthropic APIAI / LLM
Metric: Tokens / mo
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
$0.80/1M input tokens (Haiku 3.5)
Sonnet 3.7: $3/1M input
Committed usage
Custom
Discounts at $100k+/mo
LinearProject Management
Metric: Members
Free
Up to 250 issues
Free
Basic
Unlimited issues, limited integrations
$8/user/mo
Business
All features
$16/user/mo
InngestBackground Jobs / Queues
Metric: Function runs / mo
Free
50k runs/mo
Free
Basic
100k runs/mo included
$25/mo
$0.00025/run over
Pro
500k runs/mo included
$100/mo
DatadogObservability
Metric: Hosts + ingested logs
Free
5 hosts, 1-day retention
Free
Pro
Unlimited hosts
$15/host/mo
Logs: $0.10/GB ingested
Enterprise
Unlimited + premium features
$23/host/mo
Vercel PostgresDatabase
Metric: Storage + compute time
Hobby
256 MB storage
Free
Pro
512 MB + 60h compute
Included in $20/mo Pro
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
Auth0Auth
Metric: Monthly Active Users
Free
7.5k MAU
Free
Essential
Unlimited MAU
$35/mo + $0.0023/MAU
Professional
Unlimited MAU
$240/mo + $0.0175/MAU
VercelHosting
Metric: Serverless function executions
Hobby
100k invocations
Free
Pro
1M invocations included
$20/mo
$0.60/1M extra
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
GitHub CopilotAI / Dev Tools
Metric: Per user / mo
Individual
Unlimited completions
$10/mo
Business
Org management, IP filter
$19/user/mo
Enterprise
Fine-tuning, knowledge bases
$39/user/mo
PlanetscaleDatabase
Metric: Rows read/written
Scaler
1B reads, 10M writes
$29/mo
Scaler Pro
Unlimited reads
$39/mo
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
Upstash RedisCache / KV
Metric: Commands / day
Free
10k commands/day
Free
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
$0.2/100k commands
Pro
Unlimited + multi-region
$280+/mo
ConvexBaaS
Metric: Function calls + storage
Free
Generous dev limits
Free
Pro
Higher limits
$25/mo
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
CursorAI / Dev Tools
Metric: Per user / mo
Hobby
2k completions, 50 slow requests
Free
Pro
Unlimited completions, 500 fast requests
$20/mo
Business
Admin controls + privacy
$40/user/mo
Vercel BlobObject Storage
Metric: Storage + reads
Hobby
Limited
Free
Pro
Included in Pro plan
$20/mo plan
PlanetScale (Boost)Database
Metric: Query cache hits
Scaler
Not available
N/A
Scaler Pro
Included
$39/mo
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
Expo EASMobile Build / Deploy
Metric: Builds / mo
Free
30 builds/mo
Free
Slow queue
Production
Unlimited + priority
$99/mo
Enterprise
Custom + self-hosted runners
$$$
FigmaDesign
Metric: Editors / team
Free
3 files, limited features
Free
Professional
Unlimited files
$15/editor/mo
Organization
Design systems + admin
$45/editor/mo
MapboxMaps
Metric: Map loads / mo
Free
50k loads/mo
Free
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
$5/1k loads after free tier
Twilio SMSCommunications
Metric: SMS sent / mo
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
$0.0079/SMS (US)
Volume discounts
Unlimited
Negotiable at 100k+/mo
MongoDB AtlasDatabase
Metric: Storage + compute
Free (M0)
512 MB storage
Free
Shared (M2/M5)
2-5 GB
$9-25/mo
Dedicated (M10+)
Unlimited
$57+/mo
LaunchDarklyFeature Flags
Metric: Monthly Active Users
Starter
1k MAU
Free
Pro
10k MAU
$10/mo/seat
Enterprise
Unlimited
$$$
NotionProductivity
Metric: Members
Free
10 guests, limited blocks for teams
Free
Plus
Unlimited blocks
$10/user/mo
Business
SAML SSO + advanced features
$18/user/mo
PineconeVector Database
Metric: Vectors stored + queries
Starter
100k vectors, 5 indexes
Free
Standard
Unlimited
$0.08/1M reads, $8/GB storage/mo
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
AxiomObservability
Metric: Events ingested / mo
Free
500 GB ingest/mo, 30-day retention
Free
Pro
Unlimited ingest, 60-day retention
$25/mo
Enterprise
Custom retention
$$$
NeonDatabase
Metric: Projects / org
Free
1 project
Free
Launch
Unlimited projects
$19/mo
Scale
Unlimited + higher autoscale
$69/mo
TursoDatabase
Metric: Databases / org
Free
500 databases, 9 GB total, 1B reads/mo
Free
Scaler
Unlimited databases, 24 GB
$29/mo
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
Temporal CloudWorkflow Engine
Metric: Actions / mo
Free
5M actions / mo (trial)
Free
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
$25/1M actions
Enterprise
Committed use
Volume discounts
InngestBackground Jobs
Metric: Steps / mo
Free
50k steps/mo
Free
Basic
100k steps included
$25/mo
$0.00025/step over
Pro
500k steps included
$100/mo
Anthropic APIAI / LLM
Metric: Tokens / mo
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
$0.80/1M input (Haiku 3.5), $3/1M (Sonnet 4)
No free tier for API
Committed use
Custom
Discounts at $100k+/mo
ResendEmail
Metric: Emails / mo
Free
3k/mo
Free
100/day rate limit
Pro
50k/mo
$20/mo
Scale
100k/mo
$90/mo
ConvexBaaS
Metric: Function calls / mo
Free
1M function calls, 1GB storage
Free
Starter
10M calls, 10GB storage
$25/mo
Professional
100M calls, 100GB storage
$300/mo
RailwayHosting
Metric: Compute hours + egress
Hobby
$5/mo included usage
$5/mo
Pro
32 GB RAM / service
$20/mo + usage
Team
Higher limits
$20/seat + usage
LaunchDarklyFeature Flags
Metric: Monthly Contexts (MAU equivalent)
Starter
1k contexts
$10/seat/mo
Pro
Unlimited contexts
$20/seat/mo
Enterprise
Custom + SSO
$$$
SanityCMS
Metric: API requests / mo + bandwidth
Free
10k API requests/mo, 20 GB bandwidth
Free
Growth
500k requests, 500 GB bandwidth
$15/mo
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
PlanetScaleDatabase
Metric: Rows read/written per month
Scaler
100B reads, 50M writes
$29/mo
Scaler Pro 1x
Unlimited reads
$39/mo
Enterprise
Custom SLA
$$$
Vercel KVCache / KV
Metric: Commands / day
Hobby
300 commands/day
Free
Pro
30k commands/day included
Included in $20/mo Pro
GitHub Copilot BusinessAI / Dev Tools
Metric: Per user / mo
Business
Unlimited completions, code referencing filter
$19/user/mo
Enterprise
Fine-tuning, knowledge bases, Copilot Workspace
$39/user/mo
Cloudflare R2Object Storage
Metric: Storage + operations
Free
10 GB storage, 10M Class B ops/mo
Free
Paid
Unlimited
$0.015/GB storage, $4.50/M Class A ops
Zero egress fees
Fly.ioHosting
Metric: Compute + bandwidth
Free (trial)
$5 free credit
Free
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
$0.0000008/CPU sec, $0.0000016/RAM sec
StripePayments
Metric: Transaction volume / mo
Standard
Unlimited
2.9% + $0.30 per transaction
Custom
Unlimited
Negotiable at $1M+/yr volume
SendbirdChat / Messaging
Metric: Monthly Active Users
Developer
100 MAU
Free
Starter
500 MAU
$399/mo
Pro
5000 MAU
$699/mo
ResendEmail
Metric: Emails / mo
Free
3k emails / 100 daily
Free
Pro
50k emails
$20/mo
Scale
100k+
$90+/mo
Better Auth CloudAuth
Metric: Self vs managed
Self-hosted
Unlimited MAU
Free (your DB cost)
Cloud (planned)
Hosted dashboard, analytics
TBD
Anthropic APIAI / LLM
Metric: Tokens / mo
Pay-as-you-go
Tier 1 starts at $5 spend
$3/MTok in, $15/MTok out (Sonnet 4)
Higher tiers
Higher rate limits
Same per-token, higher TPM at higher tiers
OpenAI APIAI / LLM
Metric: Tokens / mo
Pay-as-you-go
Usage-based
$2.50/MTok in, $10/MTok out (GPT-4o)
Scale Tier
Reserved capacity
Negotiated for >$1M/yr commits
CursorAI Editor
Metric: Per user / mo
Hobby
2k completions, 50 slow premium requests
Free
Pro
Unlimited completions, 500 fast premium
$20/user/mo
Business
Pro + privacy mode, admin
$40/user/mo
Drizzle Studio CloudORM Tooling
Metric: Hosted vs local
Local
Unlimited DBs
Free
Cloud
Team-hosted studio (planned)
TBD
ConvexBaaS
Metric: Function calls + storage
Free
1M function calls, 0.5GB DB, 1GB file storage
Free
Pro
25M function calls, 8GB DB included
$25/mo + usage
Team / Enterprise
Custom
Contact
TursoDatabase
Metric: Rows read + storage
Free
1B row reads, 9GB storage
Free
Scaler
100B reads, 24GB storage
$29/mo
Pro
Higher tiers
$499+/mo
NeonDatabase
Metric: Compute hours + storage
Free
0.5 GB / 191 compute hours
Free
Launch
10 GB included
$19/mo
Scale
50 GB included
$69/mo
Business
500 GB
$700/mo
PostHog CloudAnalytics
Metric: Events + session replays
Free
1M events, 5k replays / mo
Free
Paid (events)
Pay per event over free tier
$0.00005-$0.00031/event tiered
Paid (replays)
Pay per replay over free tier
$0.005/replay tiered down at scale
Coolify CloudSelf-Hosted PaaS
Metric: Cloud vs OSS
Self-hosted (OSS)
Unlimited servers and apps
Free (your VPS cost)
Cloud
Hosted control plane (BYO servers)
$5/mo
SentryObservability
Metric: Errors + performance + replays
Developer
5k errors, 10k perf, 50 replays
Free
Team
50k errors
$26/mo
Business
Higher quotas, advanced features
$80+/mo
Vercel KV / Postgres / BlobStorage
Metric: Bundled add-ons
Hobby
Small free quotas per add-on
Free
Pro
Higher quotas + overage
Bundled in $20/mo + usage
GitHub ActionsCI/CD
Metric: Runner minutes (private repos)
Free (private)
2k minutes / mo (Linux)
Free
Team
3k minutes included
$4/user/mo
Pay-as-you-go
Per-minute over included
$0.008/min Linux, $0.016/min Windows, $0.08/min macOS
RailwayHosting
Metric: Compute + bandwidth
Trial
$5 free credit
Free
Hobby
$5 credit included
$5/mo + usage
Pro
$20 credit included, team features
$20/user/mo + usage
Trigger.devBackground Jobs
Metric: Task runs / mo
Free
2k runs/mo
Free
Hobby
25k runs/mo
$10/mo
Pro
250k runs/mo
$50/mo
$0.20/1k runs over
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
Upstash KafkaMessaging / Queue
Metric: Messages / day
Free
10k messages/day, 1 cluster
Free
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
$0.60/100k messages
Pro 2K
2k msg/s throughput
$180/mo
DatadogObservability
Metric: Hosts monitored
Free
5 hosts, 1 day retention
Free
Pro
Unlimited hosts
$15/host/mo + $0.10/GB logs
Enterprise
Custom SLA
$23/host/mo + extras
Twilio SMSCommunications
Metric: SMS / mo
Pay-as-you-go
No minimum
$0.0079/SMS (US)
Volume discount
1M+ SMS
Custom
Temporal CloudWorkflow Engine
Metric: Actions / mo
Free trial
$1k credit
Free
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
$25/M actions
Committed use
Custom
Discounted at $500k+/yr
SendbirdChat / Messaging
Metric: Monthly Active Users
Developer
100 MAU
Free
Starter
1k MAU
$399/mo
Pro
Custom
$$$
MapboxMaps
Metric: Map loads / mo
Free
25k loads/mo
Free
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
$5/1k loads over 25k
MongoDB AtlasDatabase
Metric: Storage + compute
Free (M0)
512 MB, shared cluster
Free
M10
2 GB dedicated
$57/mo
M30
8 GB dedicated
$200/mo
Lemon SqueezyPayments / MoR
Metric: Transaction volume / mo
Lemon
Unlimited
5% + $0.50/transaction
Lemonade
Unlimited
3.5% + $0.50/transaction (after $10k/mo volume)
SanityCMS
Metric: API requests + bandwidth
Free
2 projects, 10k API CDN requests/mo
Free
Growth
500k CDN requests
$15/mo
Team
Custom
$99/mo
WindsurfAI Editor
Metric: Per user / mo
Free
Limited completions and flows
Free
Pro
Unlimited completions, premium flows
$15/mo
Team
Admin controls + collaboration
$30/user/mo
DirectusCMS
Metric: Users + storage
Community (self-hosted)
Unlimited
Free
Cloud Professional
5 users, 10GB storage
$99/mo
Cloud Enterprise
Custom
$$$
Grafana CloudObservability
Metric: Metrics + logs + traces
Free
10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces
Free
14-day retention
Pro
Unlimited
Usage-based (starts ~$29/mo)
Advanced
Unlimited + SLA
Usage-based + premium
QdrantVector Database
Metric: Vectors + queries
Free Cloud
1GB, 1M vectors
Free
Cloud
Unlimited
From $25/mo per node
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
MintlifyDocumentation
Metric: Pages + contributors
Free
Limited pages
Free
Starter
Unlimited pages, custom domain
$120/mo
Growth
Multiple docs sites + analytics
$400/mo
TauriDesktop Framework
Metric: N/A — open source
Open Source
Unlimited
Free
StytchAuth
Metric: Monthly Active Users
Free (dev only)
Dev environment only
Free
Essentials
Production access
$99/mo + $0.05/MAU
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
DaggerCI/CD
Metric: Cloud cache usage
OSS
Unlimited local
Free
Team
Shared cache + team features
$10/user/mo
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
Panda CSSCSS Framework
Metric: N/A — open source
Open Source
Unlimited
Free
SST (Ion)Infrastructure
Metric: N/A — open source
Open Source
Unlimited
Free
Console
Team dashboard + logs
$20/mo
LangchainAI / LLM
Metric: LangSmith traces
Free (LangSmith)
5k traces/mo
Free
Plus
Unlimited traces
$39/seat/mo
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
Electric SQLDatabase / Sync
Metric: N/A — open source
Open Source
Unlimited
Free
Cloud (planned)
Managed sync service
TBD
Testcontainers CloudTesting
Metric: Test minutes
Free
100 minutes/mo
Free
Professional
2k minutes/mo
$50/mo
Enterprise
Custom
$$$
MiseDevTools
Metric: N/A — open source
Open Source
Unlimited
Free
Rspack / RsbuildBuild Tools
Metric: N/A — open source
Open Source
Unlimited
Free
DeepSeek APIAI / LLM
Metric: Tokens / mo
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
$0.27/1M input tokens (V3)
R1 reasoning: $0.55/1M input
Cloudflare D1Database
Metric: Rows read + written
Free
5M rows read/day, 100k writes/day
Free
Paid
Unlimited
$0.001/M reads, $1/M writes
Included in Workers $5/mo plan
HTMXFrontend Library
Metric: N/A — open source
Open Source
Unlimited
Free

See also

Changelog
What's shipping
Velocity
Release speed tracking
Changelog Diff
Change detection

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Exact free plan limits
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