Pricing
The price data is free. The advisor is what costs money to run.
Every list price on this site was recorded on 2026-08-30 and links back to the provider's own pricing page. None of that sits behind a login, and it is not going to. The only paid thing here is the AI advisor, because each recommendation has a real cost per run.
Free
$0
Comparison data requires no sign-up at all.
- Every plan in the comparison tool, with filters and sorting
- All six provider breakdowns and all fifteen head-to-head pages
- Cost-per-vCPU and cost-per-GB normalisation on every plan
- Three AI advisor recommendations per month
StackRates Pro
$12/month
Billed monthly through Stripe. Cancel any time.
- Unlimited AI advisor recommendations
- Same grounded output: every price read from the dated dataset, never from the model
- Priority on new provider and plan coverage as the dataset grows
- Cancel any time from the Stripe receipt in your email
How this site makes money, plainly
Two ways. Pro subscriptions, priced above. And affiliate commission when you sign up with some providers through our links — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Cloudways and Kinsta run affiliate programmes. Hetzner and Akamai Cloud pay us nothing and are still listed, with the same data and the same prominence, because a comparison that quietly omits the cheapest option is not a comparison. Affiliate links never change the ranking; the ordering is computed from published prices and specs.