Community — enterprise stack.
For each requirement below, pick the option that fits your build — recommended first, then free and cheaper alternatives — or skip what your project doesn't need. Tap the info icon next to any requirement to see why it matters.
Hosting / Compute Platform
Where your code actually runs and serves requests. Picking the right host affects speed, scaling, and how much ops work you do.Pricing & free-tier limitsVercel Hobby: $0 - 100GB bandwidth, 6000 execution hrs, unlimited hobby projects, 1000 GB-hrs / Pro $20/seat/mo + $40 per 100GB bandwidth overage / Enterprise custom from $2500+/mo / Netlify Free 100GB BW, 300 build mins / Starter $19/mo, Pro $19/seat/mo + $55/500 mins over / Railway Hobby $5/mo ($5 credits included), Pro $20/seat/mo + usage ($0.000231/GB-sec, $0.10/GB egress) / Render Free 750hrs/mo / Starter $7/mo 512MB RAM, Pro $29/mo 4GB / Fly.io Free allowance: 3 shared-CPU VMs, 3GB RAM, 160GB egress then $0.02/GB egress + $1.94/mo per VM / AWS Fargate $0.04048/vCPU/hr + $0.004445/GB/hr ~$15-30/mo per 0.25vCPU task, ECS Cluster $0.10/hr (~$73/mo) / DigitalOcean App Platform $5-12/mo starter, $0.02/GB over, Droplets $6-48/mo / Hetzner CX32 $35/mo 4vCPU 8GB
Primary Database (Relational)
Persistent storage for your app’s data — users, products, orders. The single most important architectural decision for most projects.Pricing & free-tier limitsSupabase Free: $0 - 500MB DB, 50k MAU, 1GB file storage, 2GB bandwidth, 2 active projects / Pro $25/mo - 8GB DB per project, 100k MAU (then $0.00325/MAU), 100GB BW, 100GB file storage, $0.125/GB DB overage, $0.09/GB egress over / Team $599/mo / Neon Free: 0.5GB storage, 100hrs compute (CU), 10GB transfer / Launch $19/mo - 10GB storage, 300hrs compute, 50GB egress, $0.10/GB over / Scale $69/mo 50GB, 750hrs / Turso Free 9GB storage, 500M rows read/mo, 25M writes / Scaler $29/mo 24GB, 100M rows/day / Enterprise $ custom / PlanetScale Free 5GB storage, 10M reads/mo, 10M writes / Scaler Pro $29/mo 10GB, 100M reads, $1.50/GB over, $5/extra branch / AWS RDS db.t3.micro $0.017/hr ~$12.5/mo + $0.115/GB-mo storage + $0.095/GB backup / db.m6g.large $0.115/hr ~$84/mo / Aurora Serverless v2 $0.12/Acu-hr min $43/mo + storage $0.10/GB + I/O $0.20/M / CockroachDB Serverless Free 10GB / Dedicated $0.20/CU-hr ~$100+/mo
Object Storage / File Storage
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare R2 Free: 10GB storage, 10M Class A ops, 50M Class B ops, zero egress fees / Standard $0.015/GB-mo storage, $4.50/M Class A, $0.36/M Class B, free egress (vs S3) / Enterprise $ custom + dedicated / Supabase Storage Free 1GB / Pro 100GB included then $0.021/GB over, $0.09/GB egress over / AWS S3 Standard $0.023/GB-mo first 50TB, $0.09/GB egress first 10TB (down to $0.05), $0.005/1k PUT $0.0004/1k GET / Backblaze B2 $0.006/GB-mo storage, $0.01/GB egress (free via Cloudflare Bandwidth Alliance), $0.005/1k downloads / Bunny Storage $0.01/GB-mo (HDD $0.01, SSD $0.02) + $0.01/GB egress (volume discounts) / Wasabi $6.99/TB/mo (min 1TB) no egress, $0.004/GB deletion / S3 Glacier Deep $0.00099/GB-mo
Authentication + Social Logins API
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsSupabase Auth Free: 50k MAU included per project, unlimited social providers (Google, GitHub etc), email OTP / Clerk Free: 10k MAU, unlimited social logins, SAML SSO trial, 3 orgs / Pro $25/mo + 10k MAU included, $0.02/MAU overage, B2B organizations $0.02/MAU, SAML $25/mo / Scale $99/mo 1k MAU extra orgs, $0.02/MAU over / Enterprise custom (SAML 100+ connections, audit logs, SLA) ~$500+/mo / Auth0 Free 7.5k MAU, 3 social connections, 1k M2M / Essentials $35/mo up to 500 MAU + $0.07/MAU over, $0.18/MFA SMS / Professional $240/mo 1000 MAU + $0.07/MAU, custom DB, MFA / Enterprise custom from $1000+/mo, unlimited social, enterprise connections $75/conn / Firebase Auth Free first 50k MAU free (phone $0.01/SMS verification) then $0.01/MAU / WorkOS AuthKit Free 1k MAU / Starter $125/mo 10k MAU / Enterprise SSO $300/mo unlimited connections + Directory Sync SCIM $0.05/user/mo / Okta Customer Identity $0.02-0.07/MAU tiered, Workforce $4-9/user/mo
Commenting / Discussion API (Basic)
User-generated content, discussion, and keeping it safe. Needs moderation once you have real volume.Pricing & free-tier limitsGiscus Free: $0 unlimited (uses GitHub Discussions) - zero cost, data in GitHub / Commento.io self-host Free OSS (MIT) - VPS cost $5/mo + self-maintain / Commento++ cloud $0 trial / Hyvor Talk Free: 1 website, 3000 pageviews/mo, data import / Basic $5/mo 50k pageviews, $5 per 50k over / Pro $15/mo 500k PV / Business $49/mo 2M PV + white-label / Disqus Basic Free with ads (ad-supported) / Plus $12/mo 50k PV ad-free / Pro $49/mo 500k PV / Business $99/mo 2M PV / Coral Talk self-host Free OSS + VPS $20/mo / Coral Cloud custom from $100+/mo / Viafoura Community $299/mo starter 500k PV / $500/mo Pro 2M PV / Enterprise $2000+/mo custom moderation, AI / Stream Feeds (for comments) $499/mo Enterprise 5M activities, $0.10/1k over
CDN / Edge Delivery
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare Free: unlimited bandwidth, 5 WAF rules, 3 page rules, DDoS unlimited, 2.5M Workers reqs / Pro $20/mo - 20 page rules, 20 WAF rules, managed rules, image resize 20k images / Business $200/mo - 100 page rules, 100 WAF, PCI, custom SSL, 50% faster / Enterprise custom from $5000+/mo (typically $5k-20k) + Magic Transit, Bot Mgmt, 24/7 SLA, unlimited rules, logs / Bunny.net Pay-as-you-go $1/mo min, $0.01/GB NA/EU ($0.06 Asia, $0.03 SA), volume $0.005/GB after 50TB, storage $0.01/GB / AWS CloudFront $0.085/GB first 10TB NA/EU (down to $0.02), $0.0075/10k HTTPS reqs, $50/mo Security Savings Bundle / Fastly $50/mo minimum, $0.12/GB NA, $0.19 Asia, $0.0075/10k reqs, Image $0.009/image / Akamai Enterprise $1000+/mo custom, $0.10/GB
Transactional Email API
Sending transactional email (receipts, resets, alerts) and sometimes marketing mail. Deliverability matters more than features here.Pricing & free-tier limitsResend Free: 3k emails/mo, 1 domain, 1 API key / Pro $20/mo 50k emails included, $0.40 per 1k overage, unlimited domains, audit log 7d / Scale $95/mo 100k + $0.40/1k over, 30d log / Enterprise custom / Amazon SES $0.10 per 1k emails + $0.12/GB attachment data, Free Tier 3k/mo if on EC2 + Data transfer $0.09/GB, Dedicated IP $24.95/mo / SendGrid Free 100/day (3k/mo) trial / Essentials $19.95/mo 50k emails, $0.0004/email over ($0.40/1k) / Pro $89/mo 100k emails, dedicated IP $30/mo, subuser / Postmark Free 10k (trial) + 100/mo ongoing / $15/mo 10k emails $1.25/1k over / $100/mo 100k $0.80/1k over, 45-day retention / $300/mo Enterprise 500k + dedicated IP / Mailgun Free trial 5k then Flex PayG $15/mo min + $1/1k over, Foundation $35/mo 50k / Scale $90/mo 100k
Caching Layer (Redis / Memcached)
Stores frequent results in fast memory so you serve less from the database. Big lever for speed and cost.Pricing & free-tier limitsUpstash Redis Free: 10k commands/day, 256MB max DB size, 500MB storage, single region / Pay-as-you-go $0.20 per 100k commands + $0.20/GB storage / Pro $10/mo per 100k cmd/day included, 1GB / Scale $50/mo 1M cmds/day / Enterprise custom / Redis Cloud Free: 30MB RAM, 30 conns / Essentials $5/mo 100MB, $0.20/100 ops? Actually $0.095/GB+ / Pro $50/mo 1GB, 24/7, multi-AZ / Pro+ $300+/mo / DigitalOcean Managed Redis $15/mo 1GB 1vCPU - $2.50/GB over / AWS ElastiCache Serverless $0.125/GB-hr (~$90/GB-mo) + $0.0034 per ECPUs (1M reqs ~$2) / t3.micro $0.017/hr ~$12.5/mo / Dragonfly Cloud Free trial / $15/mo 1GB / Self-host OSS Free + VPS $10/mo / Momento Serverless Free 5GB transfer / $0.50/GB data-out
Secrets Management
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsVercel Env Vars Free unlimited per project / Doppler Free: 5 users, 3 projects, 1000 secrets, community support / Team $10/user/mo - unlimited projects, audit logs, branching, integrations, 90-day log / Scale $30/user/mo - 365-day logs, SLO, HIPAA / Enterprise custom $1000+/mo SSO, SCIM, VPC / Infisical Cloud Free: unlimited secrets, 5 users, 1 env / Pro $20/mo per org + $7/user/mo pro features, self-host Free OSS / Enterprise $500/mo / HashiCorp Vault Cloud Starter Free: 25 secrets, 2 namespaces / Standard $0.035/hr (~$25.20/mo cluster) + $0.03/secret-mo / Plus $0.053/hr + HSM / Enterprise $1.50/hr cluster + $1.45/hr HSM + license / AWS Secrets Manager $0.40/secret/mo + $0.05/10k API calls / AWS KMS $1/mth key + $0.03/10k reqs / Azure Key Vault $0.03/10k ops
Repository Hosting / Version Control
Where your code actually runs and serves requests. Picking the right host affects speed, scaling, and how much ops work you do.Pricing & free-tier limitsGitHub Free: unlimited public/private repos, 2000 Actions mins/mo (Linux), 500MB Packages, 3 collaborators (private) unlimited after / Team $4/user/mo - 3000 Actions mins, 2GB Packages, code owners, branch protection / Enterprise Cloud $21/user/mo - 50k Actions mins (included), 50GB Packages, SAML, audit log, 99.9% SLA, data residency / Enterprise Server self-host $ custom ~ $21000/yr for 100 users / GitLab Free: 5 users/group, 400 CI/CD mins/mo, 5GB storage / Premium $29/user/mo - 10k mins (2000 per user), 100GB / Ultimate $99/user/mo - 50k mins, security compliance / Bitbucket Free 5 users / Standard $3/user/mo / Premium $6/user/mo - deployment, merge checks
Backups / Snapshots (Basic)
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsSupabase Free: daily logical backups, 7-day retention for 500MB DB / Pro $25 includes PITR 7-day physical + daily logical, 14-day PITR add-on $100/mo, 30-day $300/mo / Neon Free PITR 7-day (branch restore) / Launch $19/mo PITR 14-day / Scale $69/mo PITR 30-day + branching / pg_dump + cron self-managed Free (script) + storage R2/B2 $0.005/GB-mo / SimpleBackups $19/mo 3 servers 1 daily job, $49/mo 10 servers / DigitalOcean Backups 20% of droplet cost (~$1-12/mo), 4 weekly retained / AWS Backup $0.05/GB-mo warm, $0.01/GB cold (Glacier), $0.01/GB data transfer cross-region / RDS Automated $0.095/GB-mo backup storage beyond 100% of DB / Veeam Cloud $150/mo starter 500GB / Enterprise $1500/yr 100 instances + object lock WORM / S3 Glacier Deep $0.00099/GB-mo ($1/TB/mo), retrieval $0.02/GB
Search Infrastructure (Thread Search)
Lets users find things fast. A slow or missing search directly costs engagement and conversions.Pricing & free-tier limitsMeilisearch Cloud Free tier: 100k docs, 10k searches/mo 14-day trial (self-host Free OSS - $0 + $10/mo VPS) / Starter $30/mo 1M docs, 100k searches / Pro $100/mo 10M docs, 1M searches / Typesense Cloud Free: 0.5GB RAM 10k docs trial / $14/mo Starter 2GB RAM, 100k docs, 100k searches / $54/mo 4GB RAM 1M docs / $146/mo 16GB, 10M docs / Algolia Free: 10k records, 10k search requests/mo / Grow $150/mo min includes 50k records + 250k searches, $1.00 per 1k records over, $0.50 per 1k searches over, $0.10/1k indexing / Pro custom $500+/mo / Enterprise from $2000-5000+/mo custom SLA / Elasticsearch Elastic Cloud Serverless $95/mo min (~$0.10/GB ingest) + storage $0.10/GB / Self-hosted ES free OSS
Content Moderation API
Manages the content and assets you publish without editing code. Essential for sites with frequent updates.Pricing & free-tier limitsHive Moderation Free: 1000 calls/mo (image/text moderation), up to 2 models / Starter $199/mo 100k API calls, $0.0015/call over, visual moderation + text + audio / Growth $499/mo 500k calls + behaviors / Enterprise $1500+/mo 2M calls + video + Behaviors API + custom models + SSO / Perspective API (Google Jigsaw) Free unlimited (rate limited 100 QPS) toxicity scoring / Sightengine $29/mo starter 12k ops, $0.002/op over / Growth $499/mo 500k / Enterprise $2500+ / AWS Rekognition Moderation $0.001/image (first 1k free), $0.01/video min / Azure Content Moderator $1 per 1000 txn / Spectrum Labs (ActiveFence) Enterprise $999/mo starter, $5000+ enterprise / Two Hat (Microsoft) Enterprise custom from $5000+/mo
Email Digest / Newsletter API
Sending transactional email (receipts, resets, alerts) and sometimes marketing mail. Deliverability matters more than features here.Pricing & free-tier limitsLoops.so Free: 1k contacts, 3k emails/mo, audience + transactional / Starter $19/mo 2.5k contacts unlimited email / Pro $49/mo 10k contacts unlimited, advanced segmentation + 5 seats / Enterprise custom 50k+ contacts $300+/mo / Resend Broadcasts/Audiences Free: 1k contacts, 10k email broadcasts/mo / Pro $20/mo per 1k contacts (5k included) = $20 per 1k over - $100/mo for 10k contacts + transactional / Buttondown Free 100 subscribers / $29/mo 1k subs, $49/mo 5k / Customer.io Essentials $200/mo 5k profiles free 1k emails, $0.06/profile over + $0.20/1k data pip / Premium $1000/mo 20k profiles / Enterprise $2000+/mo / Braze Free trial / Growth $1000/mo 10k MAU + $0.02/MAU over, push/email included / Enterprise $3000+/mo / Beehiiv Free 2.5k subs / Grow $34.32/mo 10k subs, $99/mo premium / Mailchimp Free 500 subs / $13/mo 500 subs Standard
Background Jobs / Queue
Runs slow work (emails, exports, payouts) in the background so users don’t wait. Keeps your app snappy.Pricing & free-tier limitsUpstash QStash Free: 500 msgs/day, 5 endpoints, DLQ 500, retries / Pro $10/mo 50k msgs/mo ($1.50 per 10k over), unlimited endpoints / Trigger.dev Free: 10k runs/mo, 3 concurrent, 7-day log / Pro $29/mo 50k runs, $0.0005 per run over, unlimited concurrency, 90-day log / Enterprise custom $500+ / BullMQ + Redis self-host Free OSS (MIT) + Redis $10/mo / Inngest Free 15k steps/mo (100 runs) / Starter $20/mo 50k steps, $0.001/step over (~$20/10k runs) / Growth $50/mo 250k steps 1yr log / Scale $199/mo 1.5M steps / AWS SQS Free Tier 1M requests (12mo) / $0.40/M requests after (Standard), $0.50/M FIFO + data transfer / Sidekiq Pro $199 one-time + $99/yr maintenance (OSS sidekiq free) / Temporal Cloud Free 5k actions / Starter $250/mo 100k actions + $0.0001/action over
Monitoring / APM
Tells you when things break and why. You cannot fix what you cannot see — this is how you keep downtime short.Pricing & free-tier limitsSentry Free: 5k errors/mo, 10k performance spans, 1GB logs, 30-day retention, 1 seat / Team $26/mo 50k errors + $0.0006/error over ($0.60/1k), 100k transactions $0.0002/span over, 20GB logs, unlimited seats / Business $80/mo 500k errors / Enterprise custom SSO, 90-day retention $2000+/mo / Grafana Cloud Free: 10k metrics series, 50GB logs, 50GB traces, 50GB profiles, 3 users / Pro $8/mo per user (min $8) + metrics $8/1k series, logs $0.50/GB, traces $0.50/GB / Advanced custom / DataDog APM Pro $31/host/mo (requires infra $15/host) + $1.70 per 1k analyzed spans, profiles $24/host, Real User $1.50/1k sessions, 15-day retention (+0.10/GB logs ingested) / Free tier infra limit 1 host / New Relic Free 100GB ingest/mo (unlimited hosts) + 1 user / Pro $99/user/mo + $0.35/GB over, $0.50/M synthetic checks / BetterStack Free 10 monitors
WAF / DDoS Protection
Controls and protects your APIs — quotas, abuse prevention, and firewalls. Important once you have real traffic or many clients.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare Free WAF: 5 custom rules, basic managed rules, unmetered DDoS (L3/4/7) / Pro $20/mo: 20 WAF custom rules, Cloudflare managed ruleset included, OWASP, rate limiting 10 rules / Business $200/mo: 100 custom rules, advanced managed, custom rule sets, PCI compliance / Enterprise custom from $5000+/mo + Bot Management $3000+, Magic Transit $5000+/mo, Advanced Rate Limiting free, DDoS SLA 100% + 24/7 SOC / AWS WAF $5/mo per ACL + $1/rule/mo + $0.60 per 1M requests processed + Bot Control $10/mo + $1/1M / AWS Shield Standard Free / Shield Advanced $3000/mo org + Data Transfer, DRT access / Sucuri Basic $199.99/yr per site + WAF + CDN + 1-yr cert / Pro $299/yr / Imperva DSF (WAF) Starter $500/mo / Enterprise $7000+/mo + dedicated PoPs
CI/CD Pipeline
Automates testing and deploying your code. Saves enormous time and prevents “works on my machine” releases.Pricing & free-tier limitsGitHub Actions Free: 2000 mins/mo Linux (private), macOS 10x multiplier, 500MB artifact storage, unlimited public / Team: 3000 mins included ($4/user) / Enterprise: 50000 mins included ($21/user), self-hosted runners free unlimited, larger runners $0.008/min Linux x64, $0.016/win, $0.08/macOS M1 / Depot.dev加速: Free 2000 mins + $24/mo Team 4000 mins + $0.01/min over, 10x faster builds / CircleCI Free: 6k credits/mo (~1000 Linux mins) / Performance $15/mo 30k credits (30k per $0.00015/credit over = $0.15/1000) / Scale $2000/mo 500k credits / Buildkite Free 1k builds / Starter $15/user/mo + $0.01/min agent time + unlimited minutes if self-hosted agents / Enterprise $500+/mo / Harness Free up to 5 pipelines / Team $500/mo 500 build credits + Enterprise $2000+/mo + unlimited
Staging / Preview Environments
An isolated place to test changes before real users see them. Catches bugs without embarrassing your production users.Pricing & free-tier limitsVercel Preview Deployments: Hobby Free unlimited hobby previews 1 concurrent build / Pro $20/seat/mo includes 3 concurrent builds unlimited previews, password protected / Enterprise custom $2500+/mo 10 concurrent builds, SSO, private previews, compliance / Netlify Deploy Previews Free 300 build mins/mo / Pro $19/seat - 25k mins $7 per 500 mins over / Railway PR Environments: Hobby $5 credit = ~1 env / Pro $20/mo seat + usage ~$0.05/GB-hr per PR env (~$15/mo per env) + ephemeral auto-delete / Render Preview Envs: Free trial / Starter $7/env/mo 512MB / Pro $29/env/mo 4GB / PlanetScale Branching (DB): Free 2 branches / Pro $39/mo 10 branches then $5/branch over / Neon Branching (Postgres): Free unlimited dev branches, 1GB compute limit / Pro up to 100 branches / Uffizzi Cloud Free 1 cluster / Team $100/mo 5 envs / Enterprise $1500/mo 50 envs preview infra
Real-time Messaging / WebSocket API
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsPusher Channels Free: 100 concurrent connections, 200k messages/day, 3M per month / Starter $29/mo 500 concurrent, 2M messages/day / Pro $49/mo 2000 concurrent, 10M msgs/day $0.50 per 1M over / Growth $199/mo 10k concurrent / Enterprise Critical custom $1000+/mo dedicated cluster, SLA 99.99% / Ably Free: 6M msgs/mo, 200 peak conns, 200 channels, 30-day retention / Starter $19/mo 3M msgs, $0.005 per 100 over + 500 peak conns / Pro $99/mo 10M msgs + 5k conns + 99.99% SLA / Enterprise $1000+/mo custom capacity + support / Socket.io self-host Free OSS + server cost DigitalOcean $12/mo + bandwidth $0.02/GB / AWS API Gateway WebSockets $0.25/M messages + $0.25/M connection-mins + $3.50/M REST fallback / Firebase Realtime DB Free 200k simultaneous, 1GB storage / $5/GB-mo storage + $1/GB download / PubNub Free 200 MAU / Starter $49/mo 500 MAU + $0.25/MAU over, 500k txn
Push Notifications Service
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsFirebase FCM (Cloud Messaging) Free unlimited pushes (pay for compute/storage only, FCM free) + FCM $0 / OneSignal Free: 10k subscribed devices, unlimited push via API, 1 segment, 1 journey / Growth $9/mo from 1k subs ($3 per 1k extra up to 10k) then $15 per 10k over / Pro $99/mo 25k subs + $15 per 10k over + 10 journeys, 10 segments + advanced analytics / Enterprise $1000+/mo 100k+ subs + dedicated IP, SSO, SLA / Pusher Beams (Push): Free 10k devices (1000 pushes/day) / Growth $29/mo 50k devices + 10k pushes/day / Pro $199/mo 500k devices + 100k pushes/day / Airship (Urban Airship) Starter custom $500/mo 10k MAU + $0.02/MAU over / Enterprise $2000+/mo 100k MAU / Braze Push included in Engagement: Growth $1000/mo 10k MAU + push/email/in-app, $0.02/MAU over / Enterprise $3000+/mo custom journey
Reputation / Karma / Gamification API
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsCustom Postgres + Redis Sorted Sets self-built: $0 OSS logic + infra $10/mo VPS + Redis $10/mo, score = karma log / Badges via open-source OpenBadges Free / Amplitude tracking Free 50k MTU / Badgestack $49/mo starter 10k active users + leaderboard + badges / Pro $199/mo 100k users / Growth $499/mo 500k users + custom quests / Beam.gg Free trial 1k players / Pro $25/mo 5k players + quests, badges / Scale $199/mo 100k / Captain Up (now Captain) $499/mo starter 10k MAU + gamification API + leaderboard / $999/mo 50k MAU / Enterprise $2000+/mo / Amplified gamification API $199/mo 10k MAU + $0.01/MAU over / Stream Feeds for Karma/Activity: Maker $49/mo 500 MAU / Enterprise $499/mo 5k MAU + ranking API $0.10/1k activities / Open-source: NodeBB Reputation Plugin Free / Discourse Gamification Plugin Free
Spam / Bot Protection API
Stops bots, scrapers, and spam signups from abusing your service and inflating costs.Pricing & free-tier limitsGoogle reCAPTCHA v2/v3 Free unlimited 1M calls/mo (enterprise 10k free then $1/1k) / Cloudflare Turnstile Free unlimited CAPTCHA alternative, privacy-friendly, 0 cost / hCaptcha Free basic plan: unlimited challenges, privacy, reward / Pro $99/mo 50k requests/mo + fraud detection, $0.002/req over / Enterprise $500+/mo custom threshold + bot scoring + SSO / Akismet Free personal API key (1 site non-commercial, up to 50k calls) / Plus $12/mo 10k API calls/mo (commercial small) / Enterprise $50/mo 100k calls + $0.001/call over + SLA / CleanTalk Anti-Spam $8/mo per site 50k spam checks + $0.10/1k over / Bot Protection Cloudflare Bot Management: Business $200/mo includes basic bot + Enterprise $3000+/mo full bot score + ML / Arkose Labs Enterprise custom from $5000+/mo bot protection + fraud / DataDome custom $3000+/mo
Feature Flags / Experimentation
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsGrowthBook Cloud Free: unlimited feature flags, 1M tracked users (MTU), A/B testing / Pro $20/mo 5M MTU, SSO, custom attributes, advanced targeting / Enterprise custom $2000+/mo on-prem, HIPAA, SLA / Flagsmith Free: unlimited flags, 50k requests/mo, 1 env / Startup $15/mo 250k reqs/mo + 5 envs / Scale $100/mo 2M reqs + unlimited envs + SAML / Enterprise $1000+/mo self-host + support / Unleash OSS self-host Free + Cloud Free trial 2k requests/mo / Pro $80/mo 100k reqs + SSO / Enterprise $1200+/mo / LaunchDarkly Starter - Free trial only (no permanent free): $10/seat/mo + base platform $8.33/mo? Actually minimum $200/mo includes 10 seats, unlimited flags, 50k MAU + $0.04/MAU over, 1M events, + $10/seat = $100/seat = $200/mo for 10 / Pro $ custom $1000+/mo + experimentation $300/mo add-on / Enterprise custom $5000+/mo / Split.io (Harness FME) Free trial then Enterprise custom from $2000+/mo + $0.10/MAU
API Gateway / Rate Limiting
Controls and protects your APIs — quotas, abuse prevention, and firewalls. Important once you have real traffic or many clients.Pricing & free-tier limitsKong OSS (Gateway) Free self-host MIT license unlimited routes/consumers / Konnect Cloud Free tier: 1 runtime, 500k API calls/mo dev / Plus $250/mo 2 runtimes, 1M calls included + $0.10 per 1k calls over (~$100/M) + dev portal / Enterprise $1000+/mo 5 runtimes + SLA / AWS API Gateway Free Tier 12mo 1M REST calls / $3.50 per M REST calls + $0.25 per M cache + $0.27/hr WebSocket route / Data transfer $0.09/GB / Cloudflare Workers + Rate Limiting Free: 100k reqs/day Workers, 10 Rate Limiting rules free (10s period) / Pro $5/mo Workers Paid: 10M reqs included, $0.30/M after ($0.15/M if Bundled), Rate Limiting $5/mo per 100 rules (10M requests) / Tyk Community Free self-host / Cloud Starter $199/mo 10k calls/day $0.01/100 over / Pro $999/mo 1M calls/day / Enterprise $3000+/mo / Zuplo Free 250k reqs/mo 1 project / Scale $300/mo 10M reqs + $0.20/M over / Enterprise custom $1500+/mo / Apigee Google Free trial $600 credit / Standard $4500/mo per org + $0.40/1k calls enterprise
Uptime Monitoring / Incident Management
Tells you when things break and why. You cannot fix what you cannot see — this is how you keep downtime short.Pricing & free-tier limitsUptimeRobot Free: 50 monitors 5-min interval, 1 status page / Starter $7/mo 20 monitors 1-min, 5 status pages / Team $24/mo 100 monitors 1-min + incidents / Enterprise $84/mo 300 monitors + SSO / BetterStack (Better Uptime) Free: 10 monitors 3-min, 1 status page / Startup $24/mo 75 monitors 30-sec, 100 SMS calls + incident mgmt, 200 on-call alerts / Growth $64/mo 200 monitors + 400 alerts / Enterprise $500+/mo 1k monitors + SSO / PagerDuty Free: 3 users up to 20 incidents + email alerts / Team $29/user/mo + advanced schedules + $1 per 100 events over 500/mo / Business $49/user/mo + 500 alert grouping / Enterprise $700+/mo 5 users min + $1500+/mo flexible / Incident.io Free 10 users + Slack incident declare / Team $49/mo 20 users + workflows / Growth $199/mo 50 users + on-call + status page / Enterprise $1000+/mo SSO+ / Statuspage: Free 100 subscribers + Growth $300/mo 500 subs + Enterprise $1450/mo 10k subs
Security Scanning / SAST & Dependency
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsDependabot / DependGraph Free unlimited GitHub native + private vuln alerts / Trivy OSS Free image scanning unlimited / Snyk Free: 200 tests/mo (open source + container), 200 SAST tests per org, 1 private project, 5 devs / Team $25/dev/mo - unlimited tests, 10k container scans, SAST 5k files, IaC 1k tests / Enterprise $98/dev/mo - unlimited + SSO, asset mgmt, reporting / Enterprise custom + license compliance $2000+/mo / SonarCloud Free public repos unlimited + 14-day private trial / Team $150/mo 1M lines of code private (LOC) analyzes + pr decoration / Enterprise $350/mo 5M LOC / SonarQube self-host Community Free / GitHub Advanced Security $49/active committer/mo (CodeQL, secret scanning, dep review) / Wiz Enterprise $20k/yr starter 500 cloud resources + $35k+/yr / SLSA framework free oss attestations
Webhooks Management / Event Bus
Lets external services notify you of events in real time. Core to integrating payments, KYC, and third-party workflows.Pricing & free-tier limitsSvix Free: 50k messages/mo, 5 endpoints, 7-day log retention, 1 environment / Pro $99/mo 200k messages (1M events?), $0.10 per 1k over (~100/1M), 50 endpoints, 90-day log, portal, advanced retry / Business $299/mo 2M msgs $0.05/1k over, 200 endpoints, SSO / Enterprise custom $1000+/mo + VPC, 1yr log, HSM signing / Hookdeck Free 10k messages/mo, 2 destinations, 3-day retention / Starter $39/mo 250k messages + $0.18/1k over, 20 dest, 14-day / Pro $99/mo 1.5M messages $0.15/1k over, unlimited dest, 30-day / Enterprise $800+/mo 10M + SSO / AWS EventBridge Free: default bus 0, custom events $1.00 per 1M events (first 100k free?), SaaS events $0.20/M + $0.60/M archive replay / AWS SQS Free tier 1M reqs + $0.40/M after / Segment Connections Free 1k MTU / Team $120/mo 10k MTU
Privacy Compliance / GDPR / Data Retention
Keeps you secure and compliant with regulations. Required for enterprise customers and handling sensitive data.Pricing & free-tier limitsCookieYes Free: 15 pages scanned/mo, banner free / Pro $15/mo per domain 100 pages, 10k pageviews + consent log 30d / Business $40/mo / OneTrust Free scan 1 domain, up to 20 pages / Cookie Compliance Essentials $30/mo per domain + $0.001/pageview over + 1k consent records / Pro platform custom $2000+/mo includes DSR (10k req/yr), DPIA / Enterprise custom $10k+/mo (5000+ domains) includes Cookie, Preference, DSR, Vendor Risk / Transcend Free 1000 DSR (Data Subject Requests)/yr + consent / Starter Growth custom from $500/mo + 1000 DSR + $0.50/DSR over / Enterprise $2000+/mo per 10k DSR + automation + 120+ integrations / DataGrail Free trial / Starter custom $500+/mo up to 100 systems, $800+/mo Growth / BigID Enterprise custom $5000+/mo scanner / Termly Free 100 pageviews / Pro $15/mo per domain / Klaro OSS free
Log Management / Centralized Logging
Tells you when things break and why. You cannot fix what you cannot see — this is how you keep downtime short.Pricing & free-tier limitsBetterStack (Logtail) Free: 1GB/mo ingested, 3-day retention, 1 source / Starter $24/mo 10GB/mo, 7-day retention, 3 sources / Growth $50/mo 50GB, 30-day, 10 sources / Enterprise $500+/mo custom + SSO / Papertrail Free 50MB/mo 2-day / $7/mo 1GB 7-day / $35/mo 10GB 15-day / $95/mo 50GB / Grafana Cloud Logs (Loki) Free: 50GB logs/mo, 14-day retention, 3 users / Pro $8/user/mo + $0.50/GB ingested over, retention $0.05/GB-mo extended / DataDog Log Mgmt Free 1-day trial + $0.10/GB ingested (first 100GB free trial), $1.70 per M indexed events, 15-day retention included (+ $0.10/GB-mo archive to S3), scanning $0.10/GB, retention extend $0.02/GB-month / Enterprise $1000+/mo min / Splunk Cloud Free trial 15GB/day 14d / Enterprise $22/GB/day ingested (e.g., 5GB/day = ~ $5000/mo) + $5k/mo min SVC license / Panther SIEM Free 10GB/mo 30-day / Growth $1000/mo 100GB + 1yr WORM / Enterprise $3000+/mo 500GB + SOC2
Enterprise Chat Platform (Stream / Sendbird Ent)
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsStream Chat Free trial: 25 MAU, 1 app / Maker $49/mo 500 MAU + $0.10/MAU over, 5M messages included, file uploads $0.15/GB / $249/mo 5k MAU $0.05/MAU over / Enterprise $499/mo starter 5k MAU + dedicated infrastructure, SLA, audit logs, HIPAA, storage $0.20/GB / Scale $3000+/mo 50k MAU + custom region / Sendbird Free: 100 MAU (100 peak), 10 groups, file 1GB / Starter $399/mo 2k MAU + $0.20/MAU over = $200 per 1k over, 50 groups, 5GB / Pro $699/mo 10k MAU $0.15/MAU over / Enterprise $2000+/mo 20k MAU + dedicated, moderation, GDPR, HIPAA / PubNub Chat Enterprise $49/mo 1k MAU + $0.15/MAU over, 1M msgs / Enterprise $2000+/mo Scale 100k MAU / Self-host Matrix Synapse Free OSS + server $50/mo 10k MAU + storage $0.02/GB / Rocket.Chat Enterprise $6/user/mo
Multi-region Deployment / Active-Active
Automates testing and deploying your code. Saves enormous time and prevents “works on my machine” releases.Pricing & free-tier limitsFly.io Multi-region: free included pay per vm $1.94/mo shared-cpu + $0.10/GB egress, add region ~$10-20/mo typical 5 regions $100/mo total / PlanetScale Global Enterprise: db branching $39/mo base + $20 per replica region + $0.10/GB egress + Enterprise custom from $1000+/mo multi-region active-active, 99.99% SLA / CockroachDB Serverless Free 10GB + multi-region option $0 / Dedicated multi-region $0.20/CU-hr = ~$100/mo base + replica $50/mo / Enterprise $1000+/mo active-active cross-region / AWS Global Accelerator $0.025/hr per accelerator (~$18/mo) + $0.015/LCU-hr (capacity units) ~$20+/mo + Data transfer premium $0.02/GB + Route53 latency routing $0.50/M queries + health checks $0.50/mo each / Cloudflare Load Balancing Free 0 origins (Pro includes 2 origins @ $5/mo per origin?) Actually: Pro $5/mo extra LB per 500k queries + $0.50/origin + free failover / Business $10/mo GLB / Enterprise LB custom from $5000/mo + global Anycast + 99.99% / Vercel Enterprise multi-region Edge custom from $2500+/mo + $500 per extra region
SOC 2 / Compliance Automation
Keeps you secure and compliant with regulations. Required for enterprise customers and handling sensitive data.Pricing & free-tier limitsVanta Free trial 7d / Starter Essentials $500/mo (billed $6k/yr) up to 25 employees + 1 framework (SOC2) + 20 integrations + $40/extra employee over / Growth $1000/mo up to 100 emp + 2 frameworks + custom controls / Enterprise $5000+/mo up to 250 emp + unlimited frameworks + custom policies, SLA, dedicated CSM / Auditor cost extra: $20k-40k/yr for SOC2 Type II / Drata Starter $500/mo up to 25 emp + SOC2/HIPAA + $30/extra emp / Growth $1000/mo 100 emp + 5 frameworks / Enterprise $3000+/mo 250 emp + custom / Secureframe Starter $500/mo 25 emp + 1 framework / Growth $1000/mo / Enterprise $3000+/mo + $20k audit / Anecdotes Enterprise $2000+/mo integrations + custom frameworks / Thoropass (Laika) $400/mo starter / Free open-source frameworks: OpenControl $0 but manual
Audit Logs WORM / Immutable Logging & SIEM
Keeps you secure and compliant with regulations. Required for enterprise customers and handling sensitive data.Pricing & free-tier limitsAWS CloudTrail Lake $2.00/GB ingested data + $0.50/GB scanned for queries + 7yr retention (WORM via Object Lock) / S3 Object Lock WORM Compliance mode $0.023/GB-mo storage (Standard) + no delete for retention period + Glacier WORM $0.004/GB-mo / DataDog Audit Logs $0.10/GB ingested + $1.70/M indexed events + WORM immutability 15mo retention included (compliance) + $0.10/GB-mo extended + archive to own S3 free / Panther SIEM Free tier 1GB/day (10GB/mo) 30-day WORM immutable (S3 based) / Growth $1000/mo 100GB ingested WORM 1yr + 10 users / Enterprise $3000+/mo 500GB WORM + unlimited / Splunk Cloud WORM compliance via SmartStore + Object Lock $22/GB/day = 5GB/day ~$5000/mo min + WORM retention $0.10/GB-mo + legal hold / BetterStack Audit WORM immutable logs included Pro $50/mo 30-day immutable + 1yr archive
Data Warehouse / Community Analytics / BI
Understands your users and supports them. Drives product decisions and retention.Pricing & free-tier limitsSnowflake Standard $2/credit (1 credit = ~1 vCPU hr): auto-suspend free idle, dev usage $0-300/mo light (10-100 credits) / Standard warehouse X-Small $2/hr ~$30/mo if 15hrs / Enterprise $3/credit (~$4.50/hr) / Storage $23/TB-mo / BigQuery Free: 1TB queries/mo free + 10GB storage free / On-demand $5/TB scanned after free ($0.02/GB), flat-rate enterprise $2000/mo 100 slots / Storage active $0.02/GB-mo, long-term $0.01/GB-mo / Mixpanel Free 1M events/mo (50k MTU) + 30-day retention / Growth $28/mo 25k MTU + $0.28/1000 events over, 1yr retention / Enterprise custom $2000+/mo + SLA / Amplitude Free 50k Monthly Tracked Users (MTU) + 10M events + session replay 2k sessions / Starter $49/mo 10k MTU extra + $0.50/M events over / Growth $500/mo 50k MTU / Enterprise $2000+/mo 100k MTU / Databricks DBU $0.15/hr (jobs) + instance $0.50/hr total ~$0.65/hr = $300/mo light use + storage $0.023/GB / PostHog Cloud Free 1M product events + session replay 5k / $300/mo cloud 10M events / Metabase Cloud Starter $85/mo 10 users / Snowplow OSS free
Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
Copies of your data so a bug, hack, or outage doesn’t become permanent loss. Cheap insurance every serious project needs.Pricing & free-tier limitsAWS Backup $0.05/GB-mo warm backup storage + $0.01/GB cold (Glacier) + cross-region copy $0.02/GB egress + $0.10/GB early delete / Pilot light minimal: 1 small EC2 standby ~$100-300/mo + RDS replica $100/mo / Warm standby ~1x scale infra: $300-1000/mo + failover Route53 $0.50/M / Multi-site active-active $1000+/mo 2x infra + Global DB $600+/mo / Veeam Backup Enterprise $1500/yr per 10 instances (VM) + Veeam Cloud Connect $400/mo 1TB + object lock WORM $0.03/GB / Zerto Enterprise DR $10000+/yr per site license + $1000/mo cloud target + RPO 5 sec / PlanetScale disaster recovery: replicas $5/region/mo + PITR included, Enterprise global failover $1000+/mo / Backblaze B2 cross-region replication $0.005/GB-mo storage + $0.01/GB egress / R2 cross-region free (ops only) + storage $0.015/GB / S3 Cross-Region Replication $0.02/GB egress + storage / RPO/RPO credits SLA 99.99%
Status Page / Public Communication
Tells you when things break and why. You cannot fix what you cannot see — this is how you keep downtime short.Pricing & free-tier limitsInstatus Free: 1 component, 1 status page, 20 subscribers / Starter $20/mo 10 components, 100 subs, custom domain, email/SMS / Growth $49/mo 25 components, 500 subs, 5 team, SSO / Enterprise $300/mo 100 components, 10k subs, SSO, SLA, API / Atlassian Statuspage Free: 100 subscribers, 25 components, 2 team members / Growth $300/mo 500 subscribers, 500 components? Actually Growth $300/mo 500 subs + 10 team / Growth $700/mo 1000 subs / Enterprise $1450/mo 10k subs unlimited team + custom templates, SAML, 99.99% SLA + Incident.io integration / BetterStack Status Page Free: 1 status page, 10 subs / Starter $24/mo 3 pages, 100 subs, custom domain / Growth $64/mo 5 pages, 1k subs + incident comms + $500/mo Enterprise SSO, 10k subs + private pages + HIPAA
PAM / Enterprise SSO / SCIM / Advanced RBAC
How users sign up, log in, and are authorized. Getting roles and access control right early prevents painful rewrites.Pricing & free-tier limitsWorkOS SSO/MFA/SCIM Free dev 1M users (test) / Starter $125/mo production 10k MAU + Directory Sync / $300/mo Enterprise SSO unlimited SAML/OIDC connections + $0.05/user/mo Directory Sync SCIM + $0.10/MAU after 10k / Auth0 Enterprise SSO connections $100/mo per enterprise connection (e.g., Okta SAML) + $1000+/mo Enterprise tenant / Okta Workforce Identity Free trial 30d / Workforce SSO $4/user/mo (MFA, adaptive SSO, lifecycle) / Workforce + Lifecycle $8/user/mo + Identity Governance $9/user/mo / Customer Identity $0.02-0.07/MAU / Enterprise custom $5000+/mo 5k users + 99.99% SLA + support / Teleport Community OSS self-host Free unlimited nodes/users self-managed / Cloud Starter $100/mo upto 25 nodes + 100 users / Premium $500/mo 100 nodes + 500 users + RBAC + audit / Enterprise $1000+/mo unlimited nodes + HSM, FedRAMP + SSO, SCIM / Azure AD Free (now Entra ID Free) / P1 $6/user/mo SSO, Conditional Access / P2 $9/user/mo + Identity Protection, PIM, Access Reviews / Duo MFA Free 10 users / $6/user/mo / JumpCloud Free 10 users/devices / $9/user/mo SSO+MFA+MDM
How this enterprise community checklist works.
Each requirement below is something a enterprise community build typically needs. Pick one of the four researched options — recommended, free, cheaper or paid — add your own with "Other", or skip the requirement if your project doesn't need it. Nothing is mandatory; the plan on the right tracks what you've decided so nothing gets forgotten.
Your picks are saved in this browser automatically, so you can come back anytime. Options are researched per build level and refreshed as vendors change their plans — always verify details on the provider's page before committing.