Prices checked Oct 25, 2026
Honest GPU & AI hosting prices, checked.
Tell us what you want to do (build a website, create with AI, run AI or automate your work) and we show you the tools for each step, compared on real prices checked on each provider's own site and dated.
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AI · Model launchOpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra at $1 input and $5 output per 1M tokens
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra in its API on October 26, 2026, at $1 input and $5 output per 1M tokens, with a 1.05M-token context window and support for computer use.
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Free credit$400
CockroachDB Cloud free trial
$400 in credit for 30 days for new Cloud organizations; no credit card needed to try Standard
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Deal · ends Oct 31, 2026$10.12
Dynadot: .com transfer for $10.12
Transfer a .com to Dynadot for $10.12 instead of $10.88 with code DYNA12. The coupon ends Nov 1, 2026 at 00:00 UTC.
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Cloud · Price changeAWS raises EC2 Capacity Block GPU prices about 15% from October 7
Reserving B300 GPUs through EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML now costs $16.146 per GPU-hour, up from $14.04. On-Demand and Savings Plans prices did not change.
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For startups$350,000
Cloudflare for Startups
$10,000 in credits for a year if bootstrapped (under $1M raised); $100,000 or $350,000 if funded by an affiliated partner
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Deal$6.48
Namecheap: .COM for $6.48 the first year
New customers only, first-year registration, one domain per user or household, with code NEWCOM648. Without it the page shows $11.28 (regular $14.98).
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Hosting · Price changecPanel raises its licence prices again, from December 16, 2026
cPanel's new price list, valid from December 16, 2026, puts Solo at $32.99/mo (was $29.99) and Premier at $76.99/mo (was $69.99), billed monthly.
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Free to use10
Free AI chat apps
Chat assistants you can use free in the browser or app.
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DealUp to 30% off
Google Workspace: Up to 30% off your first 3 months
New customers, limited time, annual plans: Starter $5.60, Standard $11.20 (20% off) and Plus $15.40 (30% off) per user/month for 3 months, then $7, $14 and $22.
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Domains · Price changeSpaceship raises prices on 226 Identity Digital domain endings
Since October 6, 2026, Spaceship charges more to register, renew or transfer .live, .life, .studio and 223 other Identity Digital endings. .studio went from $32.09 to $41.40 a year.
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Free credit$300
Google Cloud Free Trial and Free Tier
$300 credit for 90 days + Always Free e2-micro VM, 30 GB disk, 5 GB storage, 2M Run requests
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Deal15% off
HostGator: Extra 15% off one plan, 20% off two
Black Friday early bird: an extra 15% off one eligible 1-year plan, or 20% off two in one checkout, on top of the regular offer. Shared, VPS and AI All Access plans.
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Free credit$300
Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Always Free: Arm A1 2 OCPU/12 GB, 2 AMD micro VMs, 200 GB block; plus $300 for 30 days
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Deal50% off
n8n: 50% off the Business plan for startups
Start-up plan for companies with fewer than 20 employees and under the total-funding cap on the page. Use it for one year, or longer while you still qualify.
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For startups$350,000
Google for Startups Cloud Program
Up to $200,000 in Google Cloud credits over 2 years, or $350,000 for AI startups; Start tier gives $2,000
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Free to use5
Free GPUs and notebooks
Free GPU hours and credits to run and train models.
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What do you want to do?
- 3 stepsBuild a website
Get a domain, choose hosting or a builder, and set up email on your own domain.
- 20 toolsBuild an app
Make a mobile or web app, with or without code, and publish it.
- 12 toolsCreate with AI
Voiceovers, avatar videos and video editing with AI.
- 23 toolsRun AI
Choose an AI model, rent a GPU, or host an app or AI agent.
- 5 toolsAutomate work
Connect your apps and run AI workflows, hosted or on your own server.
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167 free plans, credits and trials, checked on each provider's site.
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- in-depth guides
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Prices tracked from: Bluehost, Cloudways, Descript, DigitalOcean, DreamHost, Elestio, ElevenLabs, GreenGeeks, Hetzner, HeyGen, HostGator, Hosting.com, Hostinger, Hyperstack, InMotion Hosting, Lambda, Make, Modal, Murf AI, n8n, Namecheap, RunPod, Runway, SiteGround, Speechify, Synthesia, TensorDock, Vast.ai, Vultr, WellSaid, Zapier.
Latest updates
Price changes, launches and policy changes in the tools we compare, dated and sourced.
Cloudflare says a Workers AI bug sent other users' prompts in 155 responses
Cloudflare disclosed on October 26, 2026 that GLM 5.3 on Workers AI returned parts of other customers' prompts and outputs in 155 responses between August 27 and September 9.
Gemini API now logs requests by default in new paid projects
From October 26, 2026, new paid-tier Gemini API projects store Generate Content requests by default for up to 55 days. Older projects keep their setting; store=false opts out.
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra at $1 input and $5 output per 1M tokens
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra in its API on October 26, 2026, at $1 input and $5 output per 1M tokens, with a 1.05M-token context window and support for computer use.
DigitalOcean makes prompt caching automatic on Serverless Inference
On October 23, 2026, DigitalOcean made prompt caching generally available on Serverless Inference. Cached input is billed at up to 90% off; Kimi K3 cache reads cost $0.30 per 1M tokens.
OpenAI shuts down GPT-4, o1, o3-mini and o4-mini in its API
On October 23, 2026, OpenAI ended API access to GPT-3.5 Turbo, GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo, o1, o3-mini, o4-mini, gpt-image-1 and their fine-tunes. Most move to GPT-5.6 models.
Anthropic's first new API version since 2023 removes temperature and top_p
Anthropic released Claude API version 2026-10-21 on October 21, 2026. New SDK major versions send it by default, and requests with temperature, top_p or top_k get a 400 error.
Updated Oct 17, 2026
Top 10 AI models right now
Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, xAI. Tap a model for prices, limits, a cost estimator and how to start.
- GoogleArena #1Gemini 4 ArgonComplex multi-step work: software engineering, legal and finance analysis, and long multimodal documents.$2 in$10 out1M ctxDetails
- AnthropicArena #3Claude Opus 5.5Long-running agentic coding and knowledge work. Anthropic's suggested starting point.$4 in$20 out1M ctxDetails
- AnthropicArena #6Claude Fable 5.1The hardest reasoning, research and long-running agentic coding.$10 in$50 out1M ctxDetails
- GoogleArena #9Gemini 3.8 FlashFast, affordable agents, coding and business workflows at scale.$0.75 in$3.75 out1M ctxDetails
- OpenAIArena #22GPT-6.1 SolNear-flagship coding and business agents at a fifth of the flagship price.$2 in$10 out1.05M ctxDetails
- OpenAIArena #30GPT-6 AstraThe hardest coding, computer-use and professional work, when quality matters more than cost.$10 in$50 out1.05M ctxDetails
- AnthropicArena #36Claude Sonnet 5.5Fast, lower-cost everyday coding and document work.$2 in$10 out1M ctxDetails
- DeepSeekArena #56DeepSeek V4 ProLow-cost agentic coding and tool use, with MIT-licensed open weights.$1.32 in$3.96 out1M ctxDetails
xAIArena #89Grok 4.7Coding and knowledge work, including agent tasks that run for hours.$2 in$6 out500K ctxDetails - OpenAIArena #215gpt-oss-120bCheap or self-hosted reasoning and agents on a single GPU, when open weights matter.$0.15 in$0.60 out128K ctxDetails
Prices are standard API prices per 1M tokens in US dollars, read from each maker's site. "Arena" ranks are from the public LMArena text leaderboard (Oct 15, 2026), where people vote on blind answers; each model's best-placed setting is shown.The bar shows relative cost (3 input tokens per output token).
Cloud GPU prices
Cheapest on-demand GPU at each provider, per GPU-hour.
| Provider | From | Starting plan | Free tier | Our rating | Link |
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 RunPodChecked | $0.34/hr | RTX 4090 24GB (Community Cloud) | No free credits; small referral bonus after a $10 top-up | Not rated | Visit |
 TensorDockChecked (partly unverified) | $0.35/hr | RTX 4090 24GB | No ($5 minimum deposit) | Not rated | Visit |
 Vast.aiChecked | $0.51/hr | RTX 4090 24GB | No free credits | Not rated | Visit |
DigitalOcean GPU DropletsChecked | $0.76/hr | RTX 4000 Ada 20GB8 vCPU · 32 GB RAM | New-account credit; GPU use not confirmed | Not rated | Visit |
ModalChecked | $1.10/hr | A10 | $30/month of free credits on the Starter plan | Not rated | Visit |
 HyperstackChecked | $1.35/hr | A100 80GB (PCIe)A100 PCIe · 28 vCPU · 120 GB RAM | No | Not rated | Visit |
 Vultr Cloud GPUChecked | $1.67/hr | L40S 48GB (1 GPU)16 vCPU · 180 GB RAM | New-customer promo credit; GPU use not confirmed | Not rated | Visit |
 LambdaChecked | $2.29/hr | GH200 96GB (1x instance)64 vCPU · 432 GB RAM | No | Not rated | Visit |
How we compare
1 Prices from the source
We read every price on the provider's own pricing page, in US dollars before tax, and show the date we checked it.
2 Dated and rechecked
Prices older than 90 days are flagged and read again at the source. Spot one that has changed? Tell us and we'll fix it.
3 No paid rankings
No provider can pay to be listed or ranked higher, and we don't score products we haven't used ourselves.
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Guides to running AI: self-hosting, renting GPUs and choosing a host.
- Self-hosted AI agents: what to run and where to host them (2026)
The open-source AI agents worth self-hosting in 2026, what each needs to run, and our VPS and GPU picks, with October 2026 prices and a safe setup checklist.
- What is OpenClaw? How the self-hosted AI agent works (2026)
OpenClaw explained: the Gateway, the agent loop, memory, heartbeat, skills and chat channels, with a diagram that follows one message through the system.
- Best GPU servers for AI in 2026: which GPU to rent, and where
Match your AI model to the right GPU, from an RTX 4090 to an H100 or B200, and see what each one costs per hour at RunPod, Vast.ai, Lambda and other clouds.
- OpenClaw vs Hermes Agent: which AI agent should you run? (2026)
Hermes Agent or OpenClaw? Security defaults, memory, skills, channels, hosting and usage compared from each project's docs, plus a quiz that suggests a fit.
- How much does OpenClaw cost to run? Monthly calculator (2026)
OpenClaw is free; the model and server aren't. Work out your monthly bill by model, messages and heartbeat, and see what drives OpenClaw's token use.
- RunPod alternatives: 7 GPU clouds compared (2026)
Seven RunPod alternatives compared on H100, A100 and RTX 4090 prices, billing, storage and serverless options, with a clear pick for each kind of AI workload.
AI token cost calculator
See what 24 models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Mistral, OpenAI, Together AI, and xAI cost per request and per month, side by side.
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