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Diego Aguirre
Diego pulls apart cloud and infrastructure invoices line by line so you can see where the money actually goes before the bill lands.
Mixpanel Pricing in 2026: Your Bill Is Event Volume, Not Users
Mixpanel pricing in 2026 in real numbers: free to 1 million events, then $0.28 per 1,000, three worked 30-day bills, the blended-rate ladder, and the one lever (event hygiene) that keeps you near the free tier.
Modal Pricing in 2026: What a Serverless GPU Bill Actually Costs
Modal bills GPU compute by the second with scale-to-zero. We decode the 2026 per-GPU rate card, the keep-warm idle trap, three real 30-day bills, and the ~73% utilization crossover versus a rented pod.
Braintrust Pricing in 2026: What You Actually Pay for LLM Evals
Braintrust bills by evaluation scores (rows x scorers x runs), not seats. We decode the meter, find the ~199,000-score Pro crossover, work three 30-day bills, and show a one-lever fix that cut a bill 71%.
Unkey Pricing in 2026: The Step-Ladder Trap Behind the Simple Tiers
Unkey's API-key pricing is a step ladder, not a slope. We map the effective cost per million valid requests, find the threshold cliff, and run three 30-day bills.
Liveblocks Pricing in 2026: The Collaboration-Minute Meter That Bills You for Your AI Copilot
Liveblocks does not bill by monthly active users. It meters collaboration minutes at $0.002 each, and an AI copilot counts as a participant. Here is the 2026 rate card, three worked 30-day bills, and the one lever that takes $480 back to $16.
Northflank Pricing 2026: What You Actually Pay
Northflank pricing in 2026 is a per-hour meter on the vCPU and memory you allocate: $0.01667 per vCPU-hour and $0.00833 per GB-hour, plus $0.15/GB-month disk and $0.06/GB egress. The named nf-compute plans are just that meter times 720 hours, not discounts, and the bill is almost always dominated by memory you requested and never used.
Ably Pricing in 2026: Why Your Bill Is Deliveries, Not Sends
Ably pricing in 2026 in real numbers: the three-meter model now shared across all six Ably products, per-delivery message counting, three worked 30-day bills, the volume-discount floor, and the lever that cut a bill 48.8%.
LaunchDarkly Pricing in 2026: The Real 30-Day Bill
LaunchDarkly's 2026 pricing no longer charges per seat. The paid Foundation plan meters two lines: $10 per service connection per month plus $8.33 per 1,000 client-side monthly active users (MAU). The MAU meter bills your highest-volume context kind, so a 500,000-device app pays $4,165 a month on MAU alone even with far fewer logged-in users. A worked mid-size bill lands near $4,565 a month, about 91% driven by the MAU meter. Seats are free; the meter that hurts is client-side MAU.
Tinybird Pricing in 2026: The Real 30-Day Bill Behind the vCPU-Second Meter
Tinybird's 2026 pricing bills vCPU-seconds, not queries or storage. One always-on vCPU is $518.40/month. Here is the worked 30-day bill and the only lever that cuts it.
Pusher Pricing in 2026: What You Actually Pay
Pusher Channels pricing in 2026 runs from a free Sandbox (100 concurrent connections, 200k messages/day) to $49 Startup, $99 Pro, $299 Business, and up to $1,199, billed on two meters: peak concurrent connections and messages per day. The trap is peak connections, because your plan must cover your highest simultaneous connection count, so a single 25-minute spike can push you from $99 to $499 for the whole month. This teardown works three real monthly bills, shows why the same app costs $99 on Pusher, about $278 on Ably, and about $630 on Liveblocks purely because each bills on a different meter, and does the self-host crossover math with Soketi.
Convex Pricing 2026: The Real Monthly Bill (and the One-Index Fix)
Convex pricing in 2026, broken down: the $25/developer seat cost, the database-bandwidth meter that bills every document your queries scan, three worked 30-day bills, and the single index that cut a sample bill 35%.