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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 10/12/2025

Added @planetscale.com PostgreSQL as a provider on saasprices.net/db Looks like we have a new strong contender, they have nice prices for storage and egress and comes in as the cheapest option for some heavy egress use cases!

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 10/12/2025

Added @railway.com S3 block storage to SaaSPrices The newcomer surprises with coming in as the 2nd cheapest option in our calculators medium preset. No egress costs can potentially push them to being the cheapest option based on your use case! saasprices.net/s3

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 09/12/2025

Xata postgresql database provider is removing their free tier Xata Lite 😢 But they are updating their prices, their paid plans are actually cheaper than before and they are more competitive now. Check the calculator at saasprices.net/db

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 15/04/2025

✨Added OpenAI GPT-4.1 pricing to price calculator saasprices.net/llm

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 04/04/2025

✨Added Gemini 2.5 Pro price to the LLM price calculator saasprices.net/llm

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 25/03/2025

Added more LLM API prices to the SaaSprices calculator Deepseek R1 Google Gemini Flash 2.0 Grok 2 Claude Sonnet 3.7 OpenAI GPT 4.5 and o3 Check it out at saasprices.net/llm

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 08/12/2024

Added the serverless function hosting category to SaaS Prices Now comparing prices for theses providers: Google, AWS Lambda, Microsoft, @cloudflare.social, Genezio, @digitalocean.com, @vercel.com and @netlify.com Image is showing very high traffic, but it really shows the difference in providers

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 03/12/2024

LLM Price Calculator added to SaaS Prices! 🤖 Added @anthropic.com Claude , Google Gemini, OpenAI, AI21, @cohere.com in the first batch. saasprices.net/llm

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 01/12/2024

Added categories to the frontpage of SaaS Prices Preparing for adding more categories, S3 compatible storage was the latest one added.

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 29/11/2024

The Build Log Nov. 29: Added S3 storage price comparisons to SaaS Prices 💥 First providers added: @backblaze.bsky.social , @digitalocean.com , @supabase.com , @cloudflare.social , Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Google, IBM Check it out at: saasprices.net/s3

saasprices.net

SaaS Prices

Compare prices and alternatives for common dev tools

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 27/11/2024

The Build Log for 27.nov: First blogpost on site led to 4k visits from hackernews and reddit 💥 Added Zoho as email provider Added Loops as newsletter provider Added Stytch as auth provider Refactored db calculator filters Re-blogged about image transformation in the site blog

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 26/11/2024

Amazon tripled the prices for their auth service AWS Cognito With the new tier system they only offer 10k free users per month, and every user above that costs $0.015 The old plans had 50k free users and excess users cost $0.0055 This is almost a triple price! #aws saasprices.net/blog/aws-pri...

saasprices.net

Amazon changed the prices for AWS Cognito

Compare prices and alternatives for common dev tools

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 26/11/2024

The Build Log for tuesday 24.11: Got the first request from a provider to add them as a provider for my SaaS dev tool comparison website. Also refactored the transactional email calculator page, it should now behave as intended. Added OG image for the website. 💪

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 25/11/2024

If you rely on AI to write all your code, you're not really programming — you're just reviewing code. I prefer writing code myself rather than simply reviewing and approving AI-generated code

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 24/11/2024

Finally started implementing the design for my latest indie project saasprices.net?utm_source=bs This is a tool for devs to find the best prices for SaaS tools we often use, and to compare and find alternatives. Hopefully people find this useful Made with SvelteKit and Svelte 5 Give it a try!

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 22/11/2024

I'm using Go for this years advent of code. I dont know anything about coding in GoLang yet, so this will be for fun and for learning. I need a place to start, does anyone have a good course or a youtube channel or something to get me started?

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 21/11/2024

The more popular ai based coding tools get, the more valuable creative, non-ai methods become. Proof of human, proof of work becomes 100X more valuable. Dont make the generic AI look, make your stuff look like its made by real people.

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 20/11/2024

I've been working on image transformation lately, trying to make images small and faster. I started out with Cloudinary, which is a good tool. But I was wondering if there were any cheeper alternatives around. Turns out there is! So I calculated a bit and blogged about the results!

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 20/11/2024

Secure your API endpoints from abuse by adding a ratelimiter that prevents excessive use. This can be done by saving the ip addresses in redis and checking with the Ratelimit library Upstash

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 19/11/2024

Capturing events are crucial to know how your users are using your webapp. I like to use PostHog for both events and web analytics. This is how you capture backend events, it's really easy. And you get a nice dashboard with graphs for all your events!

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 18/11/2024

Numbers in JavaScript can be written in code with _ as a separator This makes reading big numbers easier!

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 17/11/2024

In SvelteKit the form element is used to send data to actions as formData. And the checkbox input type behaves kinda weird, if its checked its sent as the string “on” to the action, and if its unchecked it gets omitted from the formData object. This is how I do it:

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 16/11/2024

Webstorm is now offering a free license for non-commercial users. I've been testing it out for the last couple of days and it kinda makes me feel more professional, dont know why 😄 Still alot to get used to! Do you have any tips for a VS Code user to get going with webstorm?

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 15/11/2024

AI makes it too easy to copy others. There are so many people with nothing to lose and plenty of time. So they can easily copy your idea. But the real challenge is in marketing, and they dont have AI tools (yet) to do the marketing for what they copied. Keep building in public! #BuildInPublic

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 14/11/2024

Keeping track of errors in prod is essential to have a healthy app. Use @sentry.io to gather all your error reports in one place. It's really easy with JavaScript apps, just configure sentry in your app and capture the exceptions like this:

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 14/11/2024

Framer Motion is being moved into its own product simply called Motion! You can finally use it in other frameworks than React Let's go Motion in Svelte and Vue!!

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 14/11/2024

Mahiro the shikoku just turned 3 years old, he's the bestest of all good dogs 😍 #dogs #DogsOfBluesky #shikoku #nihonken

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 13/11/2024

SVG images can be used a couple different ways in React, this is my favorite option. I create a file for the svg, and make it into a JSX component. Add height and width at 100% so its responsive to its parent. Change all kebab-case props to camelCase. Voila! #React #WebDev

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 12/11/2024

Sending transactional emails is pretty easy. With Postmark I can create templates with dynamic properties in their builder, and then I just send the values along with the fetch call to send it. No need to manually create email templates with html and css which is a huge pain!

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 11/11/2024

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 10/11/2024

Triggers in PostgreSQL are really fun! I needed to set a column value to the id of the row if its made by a free user. Or set it to a user generated slug if its made by a paid user. You can get the id with a trigger that runs BEFORE the insert in the table like this:

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Stefan Skorpen @skorpen.com · 10/11/2024

Try out the new 'npx sv create' CLI command that the svelte team added along with Svelte 5 It makes it so easy to start new Svelte and Sveltekit projects!

Command line tool showing the options you get with using this new 'npx sv create' syntax.

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