Best for your workload
A single 'cheapest' list is almost always wrong, because it ranks on one axis and your bill has several. Each of these applies a different weighting — and the orders genuinely diverge, sometimes completely reversing.
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Cloud infrastructure
- Cheapest CDN for video streamingDelivering large media files to many viewers, where egress is essentially the whole bill.11 options scored
- Cheapest CDN for a small websiteA blog, docs site, or marketing site moving well under a terabyte a month.11 options scored
- Cheapest cloud storage for backupsLarge volumes written once and read back rarely, if ever.12 options scored
- Cheapest object storage for serving files to usersA bucket behind a public app — user uploads, images, downloads — read back constantly.12 options scored
- Cheapest VPS for a side projectOne small always-on server for a hobby app, with traffic in the low hundreds of gigabytes.11 options scored
- Cheapest cloud compute per vCPU-hourScaling out horizontally, where unit compute price is what compounds.10 options scored
- Cheapest hosting for bandwidth-heavy sitesA site whose bill is dominated by outbound traffic rather than by compute.45 options scored
- Best free tier for hosting a projectRunning something real without paying anything, permanently rather than for a trial period.54 options scored
- Cheapest Heroku alternativesReplacing Heroku with something that deploys from git and costs less.8 options scored
- Cheapest managed database for a side projectA small production database that is idle most of the time.11 options scored
- Cheapest EU-hosted cloud providersKeeping data inside the EU, for GDPR posture or customer requirement.11 options scored
AI model APIs
- Cheapest AI model for coding agentsAn agentic loop that reads files and writes patches, generating heavy output every turn.19 options scored
- Cheapest AI model for RAG and document searchStuffing retrieved passages into a prompt and getting a short grounded answer back.25 options scored
- Cheapest AI model for classification and taggingHigh-volume, low-stakes calls that return a label or a few words.25 options scored
- Cheapest AI model for long-context workFeeding entire documents, transcripts, or codebases into a single request.19 options scored
- Cheapest EU and open-weight model APIsAvoiding US hyperscaler lock-in, for data residency or licensing reasons.7 options scored