SaaS price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Track SaaS price hikes: what changed, when, and what it costs you. Then find a cheaper alternative, or list your own product as one.
Recent price hikes
- beehiiv raised prices by up to 52% · Oct 1, 2026 · Newsletter
- Fly.io raised Machine prices 13% · Oct 1, 2026 · Hosting
- Amazon SES ended its free tier for new accounts and defaults them to a pricier plan · Jul 21, 2026 · Email API
- MailerLite raised prices 22% and halved its free plan · Jun 16, 2026 · Newsletter
- Hetzner raised prices again: +30% for new servers · Jun 15, 2026 · Hosting
- Umami Cloud cut its free tier · Jun 2026 · Analytics
- Render cut included bandwidth 20× · Apr 23, 2026 · Hosting
- Mailchimp raised legacy plans 11–13% · Apr 13, 2026 · Newsletter
- Hetzner raised prices 30–37%, existing servers too · Apr 1, 2026 · Hosting
- Umami Cloud quietly cut what you get · Mar 18, 2026 · Analytics
Newsletter platforms compared: prices and price hikes
Where creators write, send and get paid for a newsletter. Each price is the cheapest paid plan that can send a weekly issue to your whole list.
- Substack: free at 10k subs
- Sendy + SES: $4.30/mo at 10k subs
- MailCheap: $39/mo at 10k subs
- Flodesk: $72/mo at 10k subs
- Buttondown: $79/mo at 10k subs
- Bento: $79/mo at 10k subs
- MailerLite: $89/mo at 10k subs
- Ghost(Pro): $105/mo at 10k subs
- Mailchimp: $110/mo at 10k subs
- beehiiv: $139/mo at 10k subs
- Kit: $139/mo at 10k subs
Email APIs compared: prices and price hikes
Transactional and product email for SaaS: sign-in links, receipts, onboarding. Priced by how many emails you send a month.
- Amazon SES: $10/mo at 100k emails/mo
- SendGrid: $34.95/mo at 100k emails/mo
- Resend: $35/mo at 100k emails/mo
- MailerSend: $68/mo at 100k emails/mo
- Mailgun: $75/mo at 100k emails/mo
- Brevo: $82/mo at 100k emails/mo
- Plunk: $100/mo at 100k emails/mo
- Postmark: $115/mo at 100k emails/mo
- Loops: $199/mo at 100k emails/mo
Analytics tools compared: prices and price hikes
Web and product analytics, from privacy-first page counters to event pipelines. Priced by monthly pageviews.
- PostHog: free at 100k pageviews
- Mixpanel: free at 100k pageviews
- Google Analytics: free at 100k pageviews
- Pirsch: $12/mo at 100k pageviews
- Fathom: $15/mo at 100k pageviews
- Plausible: $19/mo at 100k pageviews
- DataFast: $19/mo at 100k pageviews
- Simple Analytics: $20/mo at 100k pageviews
- Umami Cloud: $20/mo at 100k pageviews
- Matomo Cloud: $42/mo at 100k pageviews
Hosting platforms compared: prices and price hikes
Where your app and site run. Compared on the cheapest paid plan, and on our estimate for one small always-on app with 100 GB of traffic.
- Fly.io: $2.19/mo at the entry plan
- Railway: $5/mo at the entry plan
- Heroku: $5/mo at the entry plan
- Cloudflare Workers: $5/mo at the entry plan
- DigitalOcean Apps: $5/mo at the entry plan
- Hetzner Cloud: $7.49/mo at the entry plan
- Netlify: $9/mo at the entry plan
- Vercel: $20/mo at the entry plan
- Render: $25/mo at the entry plan
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