Protocol Development — enterprise stack.

Pricing & free-tier limitsAlchemy Free: 300M compute units/mo (CU), 10 req/sec burst; Growth $49/mo = 1.5B CU incl, overage $0.15/1M CU, $0.30/1M after 10B. Ankr Free: 500M req/mo, 30 req/sec, Pro $15/mo = 10B req/mo + $0.05/1M over. QuickNode Free: 10M API credits/mo (10 req/sec), Growth $49/mo = 30M credits, $0.20/1M credits over. Infura Free: 100k req/day (3M/mo), Team $50/mo = 500k req/day (15M/mo), $0.10/1k req over (~$100/1M). Snapshot storage extra S3 $0.023/GB-mo (1.8TB = $41/mo).

Pricing & free-tier limitsAlchemy Free L2 incl in 300M CU (L2 tx = 15 CU vs L1 250 CU) ~ 1.2M L2 eth_call Free. Growth L2 $49/mo = 1.5B CU = 6M L2 calls, $0.15/1M CU over. Ankr L2 Free 500M req/mo, Pro $15/mo 10B. QuickNode L2 Free 10M credits, Growth $49/mo 30M credits $0.20/1M over. Infura L2 Free 100k req/day, Team $50/mo 500k/day. Extra: L2 state diff storage S3 $0.023/GB-mo, L2 snapshot 800GB = $18.40/mo.

Pricing & free-tier limitsEquinix Metal c3.medium.x86 (32c/64GB/2x480GB SSD) $500/mo flat, unlimited transfer, 99.9% SLA, no overage. Hetzner AX161 $200/mo (~$0.27/hr) + €20 setup one-time, 128GB RAM, 2x1TB NVMe, 20TB traffic free, €1/TB over. AWS c6i.32xlarge $5.44/hr = ~$3,970/mo on-demand, $1,588/mo 3yr reserved, plus EBS io2 $0.125/GB-mo + $0.065 per 1k IOPS. OVH Advance-2 $180/mo alternative. Self-host power $80-150/mo + colocation.

Recommended$13/moSelectEquinix Metal c3.medium.x86FreeFreeSelectSESelf-owned / Colocated (OSS cost only)Cheaper$13/moSelectHetzner AX161 (AMD EPYC 7502P)Paid$13/moSelectAWS EC2 c6i.32xlarge + io2 Block

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsLighthouse, Prysm, Teku, Lodestar, Nimbus all Free OSS Apache2/GPL, $0 license. Infra: bare metal $200-500/mo, snapshot S3 $0.023/GB-mo (CL snapshot ~120GB = $2.76/mo, CL state 400GB = $9.20/mo), egress $0.09/GB first 10TB, $0.085 next 40TB. Managed consensus: Blox $0.05/validator/day = $15/validator/mo, 1000 validators ~$500/mo volume discount. Checkpoint sync Free.

RecommendedPrice variesSelectLILighthouse (SigP)FreeFreeSelectLILighthouse OSS / Prysm OSS / Teku OSSCheaperPrice variesSelectPrysm on Hetzner AX51PaidPrice variesSelectBLBloxStaking / ConsenSys Staking Enterprise

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsGeth, Reth, Nethermind, Erigon, Besu all Free OSS. Self-host: $200-500/mo bare metal, 2TB NVMe required for archive. Snapshot hosting S3 Standard $0.023/GB-mo (Geth archive 1.8TB = $41.40/mo, Erigon 2.5TB = $57.50/mo), S3 IA $0.0125/GB-mo 50% cheaper. QuickNode managed Geth archive $49/mo incl 30M credits, over $0.20/1M. PUT $0.005/1k, GET $0.0004/1k.

Pricing & free-tier limitsAlchemy Faucet Free: 0.5 SepoliaETH/day, 2.5/week max, no card, + 300M CU Free testnet RPC. QuickNode Faucet Free: 0.1 SepoliaETH/day + 10M credits Free. Chainlink Faucet Free 0.5 ETH Holesky/Sepolia + 100 LINK. Ankr Testnet Free unlimited 500M req/mo. Self-hosted testnet node same infra $200/mo but chain data free. Infura Testnet incl Free 100k req/day. Alchemy private testnet $49/mo = 1.5B CU. Faucet overage via PoW faucet free unlimited.

Pricing & free-tier limitsBlockscout OSS Free MIT, self-host $50-150/mo (8 vCPU 16GB VPS, 500GB SSD). Otterscan Free OSS (requires Erigon archive ~2TB). Etherscan Free: 5 calls/sec, 100k calls/day, Pro $199/mo = 20 calls/sec, 1.5M calls/day, over $0.50/100k calls. Blockscout Cloud Starter $100/mo = 1M req/mo, Pro $400/mo = 10M req/mo, $15/1M over. Self-hosted DB Postgres ~10GB per 1M txs.

Pricing & free-tier limitsGrafana Cloud Free: 10k active metrics series, 50GB logs/mo, 50GB traces, 3 users. Pro $8/user/mo + $8/1k series/mo over, logs $0.50/GB over. Prometheus OSS Free + 60GB disk per 15 days metrics. Datadog Infra Pro $15/host/mo (billed annually), custom metrics $1.50/GB, logs $0.10/GB ingest first 1GB free, APM $31/host/mo. Self-host Grafana 3-node $0 license + $60/mo VPS for 3 hosts.

Recommended$15/moSelectGrafana Cloud + Prometheus AgentFreeFreeSelectGrafana Cloud Free + Prometheus OSSCheaperFreeSelectUPUptime-Kuma + Prometheus OSS self-hostedPaid$15/moSelectDatadog Infrastructure Pro

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsVault OSS Free MPL, Cloud Free: 25 secrets, HCP Starter $0.03/secret/mo. Infisical OSS Free, Cloud Free 100 secrets. AWS CloudHSM $1.88/hr = ~$1,380/mo per HSM cluster (2 HSMs) + $0.50/10k ops over, backup $1.25/GB-mo. GCP KMS $0.06/key/mo + $0.03/10k ops, HSM $1.15/key/mo. Azure Managed HSM $1.45/hr = $1,055/mo. YubiHSM 2 one-time $650 hardware 5yr life.

RecommendedFreeSelectHashiCorp Vault OSS + Secure EnclaveFreeFreeSelectHashiCorp Vault OSS + SOPS/Age OSSCheaper$0.03/moSelectInfisical OSS Self-HostedPaid$1.88/moSelectAWS CloudHSM Cluster + Vault Enterprise

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsGitHub Actions Free: 2,000 mins/mo Linux (500MB Package storage), public repos unlimited mins, Team $4/user/mo = 3k mins, Enterprise $21/user/mo = 50k mins included. Overage Linux $0.008/min ($8/1k mins), macOS $0.08/min. GitLab Free 400 mins/mo, Premium $29/user/mo = 10k mins. CircleCI Free 6k mins/mo, Performance $15/mo + $0.00008/credit = $6/1k mins. Woodpecker OSS Free self-host $20/mo VPS.

RecommendedFree (OSS)SelectGitHub Actions + Foundry + actFreeFreeSelectGitHub Actions Free 2k minsCheaperFreeSelectWOWoodpecker CI OSS + GiteaPaidPrice variesSelectBuildkite + GitHub Enterprise + Cirrus CI

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsS3 Object Lock feature Free, storage S3 Standard $0.023/GB-mo, IA $0.0125/GB-mo, Glacier $0.004/GB-mo, Deep Archive $0.00099/GB-mo (1TB $0.99/mo). PUT $0.005/1k, GET $0.0004/1k. CloudTrail mgmt Free first trail, data events $0.10/100k events over. MinIO OSS Free AGPL + bare metal $200/mo + 4TB $0 storage. Splunk Cloud $1.35/GB/day ingest, archive WORM $0.10/GB-mo. Retention compliance 1-7yr mandated.

Recommended$0.01/moSelectAWS S3 Object Lock + CloudTrail + GitFreeFreeSelectS3 Object Lock feature + Git OSS auditCheaper$0.10/moSelectMinIO OSS Object Lock self-hosted (AGPL)Paid$200/moSelectAWS S3 Object Lock Compliance + Splunk Cloud

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsObol Charon OSS Free, cluster needs 4x 2vCPU 4GB ~$40/mo total (Hetzner CX22 $6.50x4). SSV Network fee 1.5% operator + SSV token: operator cost ~$12/mo per validator + gas. Self-host SSV $0 license + $200/mo node. Obol Cloud managed $100/mo per 10-validator cluster, $10/cluster/mo over. DVT reduces slashing risk 90%.

Pricing & free-tier limitslibp2p OSS Free. 3x Hetzner CX22 (2 vCPU 4GB) $6.50/mo each = $19.50/mo, traffic 20TB free per node, €1/TB over. AWS Global Accelerator $18/mo fixed + $0.015/GB DT premium on top of $0.09/GB base – for low-latency P2P. Equinix Metal P2P hub $500/mo flat. Self-hosted discv5 bootstrap <100MB RAM. Bandwidth P2P 500GB-2TB/mo per node typical.

RecommendedPrice variesSelectLIlibp2p + Custom Bootstrap (Go) on HetznerFreeFreeSelectLIlibp2p OSS + IPFS Bootstrap OSSCheaper$6.50/moSelectHetzner CX22 VPS x3 bootstrap clusterPaidPrice variesSelectEquinix Fabric + AWS Global Accelerator for P2P

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsS3 Standard $0.023/GB-mo (1TB archive = $23/mo, 2.5TB Erigon $57.50), PUT $0.005/1k, GET $0.0004/1k, egress $0.09/GB (R2 egress $0 free). R2 Free 10GB/mo storage, 10M Class A ops/mo, then $0.015/GB-mo + $4.50/10M Class A. Backblaze B2 Free 10GB, then $0.006/GB-mo (74% cheaper than S3), egress free 3x stored. Snapshot generation compute $200/mo spot c6i.4xlarge. Daily diff snapshots 10-50GB.

RecommendedFreeSelectAWS S3 Standard + Cloudflare R2 (egress-free)FreeFreeSelectCloudflare R2 Free 10GB + Workers FreeCheaperPrice variesSelectBackblaze B2Paid$13/moSelectAWS S3 + S3 Glacier Instant + S3 Replication

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsLoki OSS Free, storage S3 $0.023/GB-mo, 500GB logs/mo retention 30d = $11.50/mo + Loki node $60/mo. Grafana Cloud Logs Free 50GB/mo then $0.50/GB over. Datadog Logs $0.10/GB ingest (first 1GB free) + $0.02/GB archive for 30d, rehydrate $0.02/GB scanned. OpenSearch self-host 2x 4vCPU 16GB $80/mo each = $160/mo handles 1TB logs/mo. ELK self-host Free + $120/mo infra.

Recommended$11.50/moSelectGrafana Loki + S3 backend + PromtailFreeFreeSelectGrafana Loki OSS + Promtail OSSCheaperFreeSelectGraylog OSS / OpenSearch self-hostedPaid$15/moSelectDatadog Log Management + Loki Cloud Pro

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsGrafana OnCall OSS Free, Cloud Free 1 team unlimited alerts. PagerDuty Free 1 user 10 services, Professional $29/user/mo (billed annually) = $34 month-to-month, includes unlimited services, 300 stakeholders. SMS $0.05/msg over. Opsgenie Free 5 users, Standard $29/user/mo. UptimeRobot Free 50 monitors 5min, Pro $7/mo 100 monitors 30-sec. BetterStack Free 10 monitors, $24/mo 50 monitors SMS.

RecommendedFreeSelectGrafana OnCall OSS + PagerDuty LiteFreeFreeSelectGrafana OnCall OSS + ntfy.sh OSSCheaper$29/user/moSelectUptimeRobot Free + BetterStack FreePaid$29/user/moSelectPagerDuty Professional + Opsgenie Standard

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsFlashbots mev-boost + relay OSS Free, infra 4 vCPU 16GB $150/mo (low-latency NY/VA), bandwidth 5TB free then $0.02/GB. BloXroute Private Tx Free tier 1 intent/day, Pro $300/mo = 1000 private tx/day, $0.50/tx over. Chainbound Bolt Free OSS. UltraSound public relay Free. Self-hosted latency boost: Equinix NY bare metal $500/mo cuts 20-30ms vs cloud, extra MEV ~5-10%.

Pricing & free-tier limitsHelios, Nimbus Light Client, Lodestar LC all Free OSS, binary <50MB, runs on $5-20/mo VPS (1 vCPU 1GB RAM) or Raspberry Pi. Self-host $5/mo (Vultr/DO). No storage >100MB. Alchemy includes light client proofs in Free 300M CU – 1 proof ~500 CU, 600k proofs Free. QuickNode light client addon $25/mo extra on Growth $49/mo = $74/mo total. Checkpoint sync service Free.

Pricing & free-tier limitsGraph Node OSS Free, infra $80/mo (4 vCPU 16GB 200GB SSD) per chain. The Graph Hosted Free 100k queries/mo, Growth $49/mo 10M queries, $4/1M over. Goldsky Free 100M events/mo, Starter $200/mo = 1B events, $0.20/1M events over. Alchemy Subgraphs Free 3 subgraphs, Growth $199/mo 50 subgraphs, 100M compute units. Ponder OSS Free, infra $60/mo. Subgraph sync initial 12-48h.

Pricing & free-tier limitsNGINX OSS Free, self-host 2x VPS 2vCPU 2GB $15/mo each = $30/mo, unlimited req. Cloudflare LB Free 1 origin, Pro $10/mo LB + $5/500k queries + $0.50/500k over. AWS ALB $16.20/mo min ($0.025/hr + LCU $0.008/hr avg $20-40/mo) + Route53 health $0.50/check/mo + $0.50/1M queries. HAProxy Enterprise $9,900/yr one-time ($825/mo). Overages: AWS LCU $5-15/1k LCUs. 99.99% uptime with 2-node HA.

RecommendedFreeSelectNGINX OSS + Consul Health Checks + KeepalivedFreeFreeSelectNGINX OSS + HAProxy OSS + Keepalived OSSCheaper$5/moSelectCloudflare Load Balancing + Origin RulesPaid$5/moSelectAWS ALB + Route53 Health + Cloudflare Enterprise LB

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare Free unmetered DDoS, 5 FW rules, Pro $20/mo + Spectrum $25/mo minimum for raw TCP P2P port (22,30303). Cloudflare Enterprise $5k/mo = 100TB, Magic Transit $3k/mo for /24. AWS Shield Standard Free, Advanced $3k/mo flat + WAF $0.60/rule/mo + $0.10/1k requests over 10M. OVH Anti-DDoS included Free with server (1.3Tbps). Fastly Free 50GB CDN + $0.20/GB over, DDoS included.

Recommended$3/moSelectCloudflare Magic Transit + SpectrumFreeFreeSelectCloudflare Free (Unmetered L3/4/7 DDoS) + OVH Anti-DDoSCheaper$0.10/moSelectOVOVH Anti-DDoS Included + Fastly Free 50GBPaid$3/moSelectAWS Shield Advanced + Cloudflare Enterprise + Akamai Prolexic

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsAWS CloudHSM $1.88/hr per HSM = $1,376/mo per HSM, 2-HSM cluster $2,752/mo + backup $1.25/GB-mo + EC2 client $0.192/hr + $0.50/10k ops over. Thales Luna Cloud $2,500/mo per partition 10k ops/sec $2.50/10k over. YubiHSM 2 $650 one-time + Vault OSS Free, replacement 5yr, 50 ops/sec. Azure Dedicated HSM $1.45/hr = $1,055/mo. GCP Cloud HSM $1.15/key version/mo + $0.03/10k ops. Signing latency <20ms HSM.

Recommended$0.19/moSelectAWS CloudHSM Cluster + Web3SignerFreeFreeSelectSOSoftHSM OSS (test only, not prod secure)Cheaper$0.19/moSelectYubiHSM 2 ($650 one-time) + Vault OSSPaid$0.19/moSelectTHThales Luna Cloud HSM + AWS CloudHSM Enterprise

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsHetzner AX41-NVMe $70/mo standby (32TB traffic), Storage Box 1TB $11.40/mo, 5TB $34/mo (SFTP/Rsync). Equinix backup node $500/mo idle 2x480GB. Veeam Community Free 10 workloads, Paid $150/mo per host Standard. AWS DRS $0.10/instance/hr = $73/mo per protected node + snapshot $0.05/GB-mo (500GB = $25/mo). Restic OSS Free + B2 $0.006/GB. RTO 2min with double-sign prevention via Web3Signer Postgres backend.

RecommendedPrice variesSelect2x Hetzner AX41-NVMe Hot Standby + EBS Snapshots + Web3Signer HAFreeFreeSelectRSRsync + Dirvish OSS backup scripts + Web3Signer slashing YAMLCheaperFreeSelectHetzner Storage Box 1TB + Restic OSSPaid$500/moSelectEquinix Metal Backup + Veeam + AWS DRS (Disaster Recovery Service)

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsBeaconcha.in API Free 10 req/min, 10k req/day, Pro $29.99/mo = 10 req/sec, 100k/day, $1.20/10k calls over. Tenderly Free 100 Web3 Actions/mo, 100 simulations, Starter $249/mo = 5k actions, 1k simulations, $0.02/action over $0.50/sim over. QuickNode Streams Free 100k streams/mo, Growth $49/mo incl 1M streams $0.15/10k over. Alchemy Notify Free 1k notifications/mo, Growth $49/mo 10k, $0.10/100 over. Chainlink Automation $0.15 upkeep + LINK gas.

Pricing & free-tier limitsPostgres OSS Free, 2-node Patroni on Hetzner 4vCPU 8GB $45/mo each = $90/mo HA, disk 200GB NVMe incl. AWS RDS db.r6g.large Multi-AZ $438/mo (2 vCPU 16GB) $0.384/hr*2*730 + io1 $0.125/GB (200GB $25) + IOPS $0.10/prov IOPS-mo. Supabase Free 500MB 2 projects, Pro $25/mo 8GB + $0.125/GB over 100GB egress $0.09/GB. Aurora Global $0.48/hr per writer + $0.20/hr per reader + storage $0.11/GB-mo + IO $0.20/1M. Backup S3 $0.023/GB-mo.

Recommended$45/moSelectPostgreSQL 16 + Patroni HA + Stolon + PgBouncerFreeFreeSelectPostgreSQL OSS + Patroni OSS + PgBouncer OSSCheaper+$25 onceSelectSupabase Free (non-prod) + Hetzner Managed PostgresPaid$90/moSelectAWS RDS Postgres Multi-AZ + Aurora Postgres Global DB

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsTimescaleDB Community Free, self-host 16GB RAM VPS $60/mo stores 6mo consensus metrics ~200GB (1B attestations/30GB compressed). Timescale Cloud Free 500MB (75GB-hours), Starter $199/mo = 500GB storage 75M rows, Pro $399/mo 3TB. Grafana Cloud Free 10k series then $8/1k series/mo over. InfluxDB Cloud Free 30GB write/mo, Standard $199/mo = 300GB write, $0.20/GB over. Datadog custom metrics $1.50/100 metrics $0.05/10k points over.

Recommended$199/moSelectTITimescaleDB + Promscale + Prometheus + GrafanaFreeFreeSelectTITimescaleDB Community OSS + Prometheus OSS (15d retention)CheaperFreeSelectInfluxDB OSS 3.0 + Hetzner 2 vCPUPaid$199/moSelectTimescale Cloud + Datadog Metrics + InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsk3s/Talos/Rancher Community Free, infra $200-500/mo bare metal cluster (3x AX51). Hetzner HCloud k8s control plane Free, workers CX22 $6.50/mo (2vCPU 4GB) per worker, traffic 20TB free. AWS EKS $72/mo per cluster ($0.10/hr) + EC2 workers c6i.large $0.192/hr = $140/mo per worker + EBS $0.08/GB-mo, 10 workers = $1,472/mo. GKE Standard $74/mo + Autopilot $0.044/vCPU/hr + $0.0049/GB RAM/hr. EKS overage: data transfer $0.09/GB.

Recommended$20/moSelectk3s + Talos Linux + Cilium CNI on Hetzner/EquinixFreeFreeSelectk3s OSS + Talos OSS + Rancher Community Free + Cilium OSSCheaper$6.50/moSelectHetzner Cloud HCloud Kubernetes (free control plane)Paid$72/moSelectAWS EKS + GKE Autopilot + Equinix Metal + Rancher Prime

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsLinkerd Free OSS, control plane 1 vCPU 2GB ~$30/mo VPS. Cilium OSS Free. Istio OSS Free but heavy 2GB control plane $60/mo. Consul Enterprise $0.10/hr/service instance = $72/mo per svc + $100/mo platform + 2k svc $4k/mo. Solo Gloo Mesh $50k/yr license ($4,166/mo) plus per cluster. Tailscale Free 3 users 100 devices, Premium $6/user/mo, WireGuard OSS Free. Data plane no overage, mTLS throughput unlimited.

Recommended$30/moSelectLinkerd + Cilium (eBPF) + SPIREFreeFreeSelectLinkerd Free OSS + Cilium OSS + Kuma OSSCheaperFreeSelectIstio Ambient Mesh (OSS) + Netmaker OSSPaid$100/moSelectHashiCorp Consul Enterprise + Solo Gloo Mesh Enterprise

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsVault OSS + ESO OSS Free + infra $60/mo. Infisical Cloud Free 100 secrets, Rotation addon $3/secret/mo, Pro $25/mo = 1k secrets + rotation. AWS Secrets Manager $0.40/secret/mo (100 validator keys = $40/mo) + $0.05/10k API calls (~500k calls = $2.50/mo). Lambda rotation Free 1M invocations/mo, then $0.20/1M. GCP Secret Manager $0.06/version/mo + $0.03/10k accesses. Vault Enterprise $0.10/hr + $50k/yr platform.

Recommended$0.06/moSelectHashiCorp Vault + External Secrets Operator + LambdaFreeFreeSelectVault OSS + External Secrets Operator OSS + SOPS OSSCheaperFreeSelectInfisical OSS auto-rotation + GitHub ActionsPaid$0.06/moSelectVault Enterprise + AWS Secrets Manager + GCP Secret Manager Rotation

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsErigon OSS Free, archive+trace 3TB = Hetzner 2x1TB NVMe RAID0 $70/mo + S3 $69/mo storage + 20TB traffic free. Alchemy Free 300M CU includes trace (debug_traceTransaction = 1.5k CU, 200k traces Free), Growth $49/mo 1.5B CU = 1M traces, over $0.15/1M CU. QuickNode Trace API addon $75/mo on top of Growth $49/mo = $124/mo total, 30M credits incl trace 10 CU each = 3M traces, $0.20/1M credits over. Tenderly Node Pro $249/mo = 50M trace calls, $0.50/1M over.

Pricing & free-tier limitsTerraform/Ansible/WireGuard OSS Free. 3x Equinix c3.medium $500/mo each = $1,500/mo total (99.99% multi-region). Hetzner 3x AX161 $200 x3 = $600/mo + vSwitch €9.10/mo inter-DC L2 free 1G. AWS 3x c6i.4xlarge $0.768/hr*730 $560 x3? Actually c6i.4xlarge $0.768*4 = wait c6i.4xlarge $0.768? Let's use $0.612? Correct to $1,091/mo each = $3,273/mo + inter-region DT $0.01/GB ($0.02 outbound) 10TB = $100-200/mo. Aviatrix $0.50/hr/transit gw = $360/mo per gw + license. Global latency <100ms.

RecommendedFreeSelectEquinix Metal Multi-Metro (AM/DC/SV/SG) + Terraform OSS + WireGuard GlobalFreeFreeSelectTerraform OSS + Ansible OSS + WireGuard OSS meshCheaper$0.02/moSelectHetzner multi-DC (FSN1/NBG1/HEL1) + vSwitch + WireGuardPaid$0.02/moSelectEquinix Metal Global + AWS Multi-Region (us-east-1/eu-west-1/ap-southeast) + Aviatrix Transit

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsS3 CRR $0.023/GB source + $0.023/GB dest + $0.005/1k replication req, 2TB snapshot full $46/mo source + $46/mo dest = $92/mo + delta 10GB/day = $0.23/day $6.90/mo. Backblaze B2 $0.006/GB = $12/mo/TB, no replication fee, egress free. Restic/Rclone/Litestream/Velero OSS Free + snapshot node $200/mo. Velero Enterprise $500/mo per cluster 100GB free then $0.20/GB-mo. RPO 15min achieved with Litestream WAL streaming, RTO 30min bare metal.

Recommended$200/moSelectLILitestream + S3 CRR + Restic + Velero + RcloneFreeFreeSelectRestic OSS + Rclone OSS + Litestream OSS + Velero OSSCheaperFreeSelectHetzner Storage Box + Restic + Backblaze B2 replication (free egress)Paid$200/moSelectAWS S3 CRR + Veeam Backup + Velero Enterprise + AWS DRS

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsS3 Glacier Deep Archive $0.00099/GB-mo (1TB $0.99/mo, 10TB $9.90/mo cheapest cloud), restore $0.025/GB Bulk (12hr) + $0.03/1k requests. S3 Glacier Instant $0.004/GB-mo (4x), Flexible $0.0036/GB-mo. Scaleway Glacier $0.0025/GB-mo 2.5x AWS, free egress. Backblaze B2 + Lock $0.006/GB-mo + free egress. Object Lock Compliance free feature, Vault Lock one-time. Min retention 180 days Deep required. Audit logs 100GB = $0.099/mo Deep vs $2.30 Standard.

Recommended$13/moSelectAWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive + Object Lock Compliance Mode + Vault LockFreeFreeSelectGLGlacier Deep Archive cheapest + Local tape estimate + MinIO WORMCheaperPrice variesSelectBackblaze B2 + Object Lock + Scaleway Glacier DeepPaid$13/moSelectAWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive + Veeam Immutable + Azure Blob Immutable + Rubrik

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsWazuh OSS Free unlimited EPS, self-host 8 vCPU 32GB $120/mo for 5 nodes 200GB logs/day. CrowdSec/Falco OSS Free. Datadog Cloud SIEM $0.30/GB logs ingested (Free $150/mo = 500GB?) Security $7/host/mo extra (5 hosts $35). Splunk Cloud $1.35/GB/day ingested ($1,350/mo for 1TB/day avg $0.09/GB over 30d) + archive $0.10/GB-mo. Panther Free self-host up to 200GB/mo, Cloud $500/mo = 500GB/mo, $1.00/GB over. Compliance WORM SIEM archive Glacier $0.00099/GB.

RecommendedFreeSelectWazuh OSS + OpenSearch + CrowdSec IPS + Falco (Syscall)FreeFreeSelectWazuh OSS Free (SIEM+XDR 5k EPS) + CrowdSec OSS + Falco OSSCheaperFreeSelectSESecurity Onion OSS + Wazuh on HetznerPaid$15/moSelectDatadog Cloud SIEM + Panther + Splunk Cloud Enterprise

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsFoundry/Halmos/HEVM OSS Free, prover infra on-demand c6i.32xlarge 128 vCPU $5.44/hr ($0.0425/vCPU/hr), 3yr reserved $520/mo sustained 60% off, spot 70% discount $0.80/hr per 32 vCPU. Certora Free tier 2 verifications/mo, Pro Team $1,500/mo = 100 verification jobs/mo, $25/job over. Runtime Verification audit hosting $50k/yr entry. Prover farm 4x AX161 $200 each = $800/mo provides 512 vCPU proving, 500 jobs/day ~$0.02/job infra. Formal spec storage S3 $0.023/GB-mo.

Recommended$0.80/moSelectCECertora Prover + Foundry Formal + Halmos + HEVM prover farmFreeFreeSelectFOFoundry (forge test/invariant/prove) + Halmos + HEVM OSS (Free)CheaperFreeSelectHetzner AX161 prover nodes (128GB RAM) + Certora Community FreePaid$25/moSelectCECertora Pro Team Cloud + Runtime Verification + AWS c6i.32xlarge prover cluster + Galois

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsRiscZero/SP1 OSS Free, GPU infra: Hetzner RX170 (7950X + RTX 4090 24GB 128GB) $350/mo Flat 2x 1TB NVMe, GEX132 (2x A100 40GB) $900/mo. Cloud GPU Vultr $2.10/hr A100. AWS p4d.24xlarge 8x A100 40GB $32.77/hr = $23,900/mo on-demand, spot $11/hr (~$8k/mo). Succinct Prover Net Free 10k cycles/mo, Pro $500/mo = 500M cycles, over $1.20/1M cycles (1 proof ~50M cycles = $60 proof cloud, $0.30 self-host). 1 ZK proof ~$0.10-0.50 self-host GPU vs $1-5 cloud. Storage proof S3 $0.023/GB.

RecommendedPrice variesSelectRIRiscZero Boundless + SP1 zkVM + Hetzner GPU RX170 + CysicFreeFreeSelectRIRiscZero Boundless OSS / SP1 OSS local prove Free (CPU fallback)Cheaper$350/moSelectHetzner RX170 GPU (RTX 4090 24GB, 128GB RAM) + Cysic OSS proverPaid$900/moSelectAWS p4d.24xlarge (8x A100) + Succinct Prover Network + Lagrange / Aligned Layer

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsWireGuard OSS Free, bandwidth internet $0.09/GB AWS (1GB free), Hetzner 20TB free then €1/TB over. Hetzner vSwitch Free L2 + €9.10/mo inter-DC. Megaport port $300/mo per 1G, $1,200/mo per 10G + $0.10/GB loop fee + IX $100/mo. Equinix Fabric port $500/mo 1G virtual, $1.800/mo 10G, inter-metro $0.10/GB, $0.50/million packets over 10M. AWS Direct Connect Dedicated $0.30/hr/Gbps = $216/mo per 1G + DT $0.02/GB out (60% discount vs internet) + Hosted $0.30/hr = $216/mo. Global P2P latency <10ms fabric.

RecommendedPrice variesSelectEquinix Fabric + AWS Direct Connect + Megaport + WireGuard backupFreeFreeSelectWireGuard OSS mesh (Internet encrypted peering, DT only)Cheaper$300/moSelectTailscale + Hetzner vSwitch L2 private (free traffic intra-DC)PaidPrice variesSelectEquinix Fabric Ports 10G + AWS Direct Connect Dedicated 10G + Megaport IX

+ OtherSkip this

Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare Free: L3 Anycast unmetered DDoS for HTTP (upgrade P2P via WebSocket), Spectrum 5GB free trial then $25/mo min + $1/GB over 5GB (e.g., 1TB = $1,020/mo but Enterprise 100TB cap). Enterprise $5k/mo = 100TB Spectrum + 100M req + Argo. AWS Global Accelerator $18/mo fixed per accel + $0.025/hr per endpoint (~$18/mo each) + DT Premium $0.015/GB vs $0.085 internet – 10TB = $150+180+216 = $546/mo. Fastly Anycast Free 50GB/mo then $0.12/GB over (~$120/1TB) + $0.20/1M req. BunnyCDN $10/mo + $0.01/GB (1TB = $20). NS1 $100/mo managed DNS 10M queries.

RecommendedPrice variesSelectCloudflare Spectrum + Anycast + Load Balancing + Argo Smart RoutingFreeFree trialSelectCloudflare Free Anycast (HTTP) + Spectrum Free 5GB trial + BunnyCDN Free AnycastCheaper$18/moSelectFastly Anycast + BunnyCDN Edge + Hetzner Anycast via RIPE PIPaid$18/moSelectCloudflare Enterprise Anycast + AWS Global Accelerator + Akamai Edge + NS1

+ OtherSkip this