Side-by-side comparisons of hosting, databases, payments, auth, email, analytics and the other tools a small software business runs on.
Prices are taken from each vendor's own pricing page and every comparison says the date we checked them. Prices change, so each one links to the source. Nobody pays us to be included.
Supabase's Postgres-based platform against Google's Firebase: what each free tier includes, how paid pricing works, and the architectural differences that matter more than price.
How the three popular front-end hosts price bandwidth, builds and serverless functions, what each free plan allows (including Vercel's non-commercial rule), and which suits which kind of project.
Two popular ways to get a managed Postgres database: Neon's per-compute-hour pricing with scale to zero and branching, and Supabase's $25 Pro plan with a full backend around the database.
Payment processor or merchant of record? UK card fees for Stripe, Stripe Billing and Stripe Tax compared with Paddle's and Lemon Squeezy's all-in pricing, with a worked example for a £20 subscription.
Xero's four UK plans against FreeAgent's single limited-company plan: monthly prices excluding VAT, invoice and bill limits on Xero Ignite, payroll, year-end filing, and the free FreeAgent route through some business bank accounts.
Free allowances, paid plan prices and per-user charges for three popular authentication services, how each one counts a user, and worked monthly costs at 10,000 and 80,000 users.
What it costs to send password resets, receipts and notifications through Resend, Postmark or Amazon SES, including free allowances, overage rates, SES's new plans, and a worked example at 30,000 emails a month.
Two privacy-focused paid analytics tools, a product analytics platform with a large free tier, and the free standard GA4: prices, limits, data retention and which questions each one answers best.
A realistic tool stack for a small software product at two stages, pre-launch and early revenue, with each line priced from the vendor's own pricing page and linked to our detailed comparisons.
Revenue share against monthly fees: what four popular newsletter platforms charge on free and paid plans, what they take from paid subscriptions, and a worked example for 1,000 subscribers with 50 paying.
Free plan limits and per-user prices for Linear, Jira and GitHub Projects, what each tool is designed for, and what a five-person team would pay.
How Cloudflare Registrar's no-markup pricing works, the requirement to use Cloudflare's nameservers, transfer rules (including the 60-day lock and the .uk exception), renewals and expiry, and when another registrar is a better fit.