How we compare prices

237 services across 18 categories, compared using estimated bills at the usage you enter. Check features and operating costs as well as price before choosing a provider.

Where prices come from

Each provider page links to the vendor’s pricing documentation and shows when we last checked it. Prices were last checked 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-09. We label conversions and approximate rates in the tables and explain them in the provider’s notes.

• Published rates: prices taken from the vendor’s rate card. The total still excludes some charges.
• Modeled rates: published prices converted into a common unit. The conversion depends on assumptions such as event size, token count, login frequency or cluster size.
• Estimated rates: at least one price is approximate, inferred or not publicly listed. Confirm it with the vendor.
• Reported spend: another customer’s bill or contract, with a source. It is shown separately and is not a quote for your usage.

10 entries need a sales contract and have no calculated bill here. Where reliable public contract figures are available, we show them as “reported typical spend” and cite the source. These may come from procurement platforms that collect data across several purchases.

How monthly cost is calculated

• Each category has a few usage inputs that drive most of the bill: queries and zones for DNS, GB and requests for a CDN, monthly active users for auth, and so on. The default figures are examples, not industry averages. Presets let you try smaller and larger setups.
• If a vendor has several listed plans, the calculator picks the cheapest one that fits your usage and requirements it can check, such as EU residency. You still need to check other features yourself. Free tiers and included allowances are subtracted before overage rates apply.
• If your usage is above every self-serve plan’s limits, the row shows “contact sales” instead of a made-up number.
• Prices are in USD, before tax. Billing terms and currency conversions are in the notes. Some plans use annual subscription rates, but negotiated discounts, committed-use cloud discounts and startup credits are excluded.
• Self-hosted software is listed separately, without a calculated bill or savings figure. Allow for servers, storage, licenses, upgrades, security work and engineering time.

Under each category’s table, we list costs the calculator leaves out, such as add-ons, regional rates and support plans. The page and the browser calculator use the same formulas. Yearly figures are twelve times the monthly estimate, not an annual offer from the vendor.

Shared links save your usage, filters, current provider and migration cost. They don’t freeze the price: opening the same link after a data or formula update can give a different estimate.

Savings and migration break-even

Choose your current provider to compare its estimated bill with alternatives that match your filters. If its contract price is unknown, we can’t calculate savings. For LLMs, the summary stays within the current model’s broad capability tier unless you select another tier. Models in the same tier can still differ in quality.

Break-even is the time it takes for a lower monthly bill to cover your one-time migration cost. We divide that cost by the monthly price difference and round up to a full month. Include engineering time, running both vendors during the move and other one-off expenses in the cost you enter.

This calculation assumes usage and prices stay the same. It leaves out changes in ongoing staffing, features and reliability.

What jurisdiction means

• Headquarters: where the company itself is based.
• Jurisdiction: the country of the ultimate parent company. For example, a European subsidiary of a US company is listed under the US. NS1 is owned by IBM, so it is also listed under the US. This tells you about ownership, not every law that applies. Subsidiaries, processing locations, subcontractors and contract terms can bring other laws into play.
• EU data residency: you can keep data and processing inside the EU on a standard self-serve plan, not only on an enterprise contract. “Yes” means at least one listed self-serve plan offers it. Turn on the EU filter to select an eligible plan; the cheapest plan without that filter may not qualify.
• GDPR DPA: a data processing agreement is documented. This is not a GDPR-compliance certification or legal advice.

Provider types

Where a category splits into clear groups, each provider gets a type. We assign it by what the service includes, never by price, so the cheapest group isn’t cheapest by definition.

Servers & VPS

• Hyperscaler & enterprise: The broadest catalog of managed services, many regions, enterprise support contracts and compliance programs.
• Developer cloud: A smaller set of managed services (databases, Kubernetes, load balancers) with simpler pricing and self-serve support.
• Budget & bare metal: Servers with few managed services. You run more yourself: databases, backups, failover and monitoring.

CDN

• Edge platform: A CDN inside a larger platform: WAF and bot management, edge compute and enterprise support contracts.
• Delivery-focused CDN: Mainly content delivery, with a smaller set of security and edge features and self-serve support.

Object storage

• Hyperscaler: Part of a hyperscaler cloud: several storage classes, lifecycle rules, fine-grained access control and integration with that cloud’s other services.
• Cloud provider storage: Storage sold alongside a server cloud, close to its servers, with fewer storage classes and simpler access control.
• Standalone storage: S3-compatible storage sold on its own rather than as part of a server cloud, usually with few extra services.

A price gap between types often reflects work you’d take on yourself. Compare what you’d have to run before switching.

Ranking and affiliate links

Managed rows are sorted by estimated cost at your usage, lowest first. Self-hosted software is separate. Affiliate links, when present, are visibly labeled and marked rel="sponsored". They never change ranking, inclusion or the numbers shown.

Use the data

Each category’s providers, rates and default estimates are available as JSON, for example /data/dns.json./llms.txt lists every page for AI assistants, and /llms-full.txt has every category’s estimates in one Markdown file. The premium in numbers summarizes it across categories. Cite the provider page and its last-checked date when you quote a number.

Publisher and corrections

Published by SV Premium. About the project explains review and commercial disclosures. Send a pricing or guide correction to hello@svpremium.dev, with the page and a current source. Do not send secrets or customer data.

Limits of this comparison

Price is only one input. Vendors differ in quality, features, support, reliability and lock-in, and the cheapest option isn’t right for every workload. Use this site to find out what you’re paying for and which alternatives are worth testing, then confirm current pricing with the vendor before you sign anything.