Set a monthly budget, and we'll fill a working stack that fits. Swap anything, watch the number move, then run a simulated day on free credits. Nothing here charges you.
Refills to 500 every day Models Top-shelf reasoning. Great demos, brutal invoices.
~10M in / 2M out tokens a month
The sensible default most products ship on.
~10M in / 2M out tokens a month
Cheap, fast, good enough for 80% of calls.
~10M in / 2M out tokens a month
Open weights, hosted rates. No vendor lock-in.
~10M in / 2M out tokens a month
Pennies per million tokens. Perfect for classification.
~10M in / 2M out tokens a month
Local model on your own box
$0/mo
Free tokens, paid in hardware and patience.
electricity not included
Servers Hobby VPS — 1 vCPU / 1GB
$5/mo
Where every side project starts and most of them die.
1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 25GB disk
Standard VPS — 2 vCPU / 4GB
$24/mo
Handles real traffic without babysitting.
2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, 80GB disk
Beefy VPS — 8 vCPU / 16GB
$96/mo
Room to run queues, workers and your own vector store.
8 vCPU, 16GB RAM, 320GB disk
GPU box — 24GB VRAM
$310/mo
Self-host open weights. Feels amazing, costs plenty.
~12 hours a day of GPU time
Serverless edge hosting
$20/mo
No servers to patch. Bills scale with your luck.
small production app
Services Backups you'll be grateful for exactly once.
production tier, daily backups
Retrieval that keeps your answers honest.
~1M embedded chunks
Auth and user management
$25/mo
Do not build this yourself. Truly.
up to 10k monthly users
The only way to find out why the agent looped 400 times.
small team, 30-day retention
Transactional email
$20/mo
Receipts, resets, and the odd apology.
~50k emails a month
Media storage and CDN
$15/mo
Cheap until someone posts your video everywhere.
500GB stored, 1TB served
Hardware Runs local models and 60 browser tabs. Barely.
$4,500 spread over 24 months
Your own inference box. The dream, and the noise.
$3,600 spread over 24 months
Foldable flagship phone
$125/mo
Talk of the town. Also a very expensive camera.
$3,000 spread over 24 months
Display smart glasses
$33/mo
Notifications on your face. Somehow addictive.
$800 spread over 24 months
Mixed reality headset
$60/mo
Three amazing hours, then a shelf.
$1,450 spread over 24 months
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Prices are indicative monthly estimates at the usage shown on each card. Hardware is spread over 24 months. Nothing here is a real purchase.