Independent price comparison · checked 28 Oct 2026

Find the real price. Then the cheapest.

Compare what 50 providers charge for domains, hosting, VPS, cloud, GPUs and LLM APIs. Renewal prices and three-year totals, not just the launch deal, checked daily and ranked by price alone.

h100 hourly .io renewal 4 GB VPS gpt-5 per 1M

Renewal trap

$0.50$40.00

.website costs 80× more to keep than to buy, at IONOS.

Cheapest H100

$2.14/h

On demand at Vast.ai, across 6 providers.

Cheapest 4 GB

$7.09

Per month at Hetzner, 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM.

Cheapest tokens

$0.020

Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct at Together AI, blended per 1M tokens.

Going up

$10.26$10.97

Verisign raises .com wholesale on 1 Nov 2026. Every renewal follows.

Editor's note

Pikkly is a rate sheet for what developers pay to run software: domains, hosting, VPS, cloud, GPUs, object storage, egress and LLM APIs, from 50 providers, refreshed daily from public price lists and APIs and ranked by price alone. The figure that matters is rarely the banner one. A domain's first year is a promotion and the renewal is the real price: .website costs $0.50 to buy and $40 a year to keep at IONOS. Shared hosting renews higher too: IONOS Business starts at $1 a month and renews at $16.

For servers the trap is the provider, not the year: a 4 GB VPS is $7.09 a month at Hetzner and $24 at DigitalOcean. An H100 hour is $2.35 on a marketplace and $3.20 on demand. Every table shows the date it was checked and links to the provider's own page, and the data is open under CC BY 4.0. Affiliate links appear only in labelled blocks, and providers with no programme, such as Cloudflare, Porkbun and Hetzner, rank first wherever they are cheapest.

Ten things that cost money

Every section is the same promise: the real price, the date it was checked, and the page it came from.

Domains

Renewal vs first year, and the registrar margin over registry wholesale.

905 TLDs · 6 registrars

Hosting

Shared and managed WordPress plans ranked by true 3-year cost.

29 plans · 3-year TCO

VPS

Price per vCPU, per GB RAM and per GB SSD across providers.

342 plans · 7 providers

Cloud

General-purpose instances from the hyperscalers and the cheap end.

1196 shapes · 4 providers

By Country

Which providers run a region in your country, and what it costs.

55 countries · 238 regions

GPUs

Hourly price per GPU type, on demand and spot.

22 GPU types · 7 providers

Object Storage

Per GB stored, per GB egress, per 1k operations.

10 providers

Egress

What moving data out actually costs, per provider.

11 providers

LLMs

Input and output price per million tokens, and context windows.

1040 models · 11 vendors

Compare

Put two or three providers side by side in every shared section.

50 providers

This week

What the data says this week

$0.48

Cheapest VPS / month

$2.14

Cheapest H100 / hour

$0.020

Cheapest 1M tokens

80×

Worst renewal jump (.website)

6,065 price rows, refreshed 28 Oct 2026.

Biggest first-year traps

Where the renewal costs the most relative to the price that got you in the door.

All domains →

TLDs with the largest renewal to first-year ratio, checked 28 Oct 2026
					Source
.website	$0.50	$40.00	80.0×	IONOS	↗
.site	$0.79	$55.00	69.6×	IONOS	↗
.fun	$1.00	$60.00	60.0×	IONOS	↗
.shop	$0.98	$56.00	57.1×	IONOS	↗
.store	$1.47	$84.00	57.1×	IONOS	↗
.space	$1.00	$50.00	50.0×	IONOS	↗
.online	$1.20	$48.00	40.0×	IONOS	↗
.global	$3.20	$127.00	39.7×	IONOS	↗

Prices last checked: 28 Oct 2026. Methodology

Worst renewal trap

.website

$0.50 First year $40.00 Every year after

IONOS · 80× the first-year price

Renewal trap

.site

$0.79 First year $55.00 Every year after

IONOS · 70× the first-year price

Domain renewal prices 2026: the full report, with charts and a CSV →

Where picking wrong costs most

The same GPU, the same hour, across providers. The spread is what you pay for not checking.

All GPUs →

H200 $0.500 → $6.31 12.6× V100 $0.118 → $0.790 6.7× L40S $0.536 → $3.50 6.5× A100 80GB $1.00 → $4.00 4.0×

Open data

Every table here is a file you can download

One JSON file per section, licensed CC BY 4.0, with a source URL and a check date on every row. Use it, chart it, argue with it.

Price rows: 6,065
Providers: 50
Countries: 55

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What the registry actually charges

Every TLD has a wholesale price set by its registry. This is the margin the cheapest registrar still takes on top of it.

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.art

UK Creative Ideas

Registry: $13.20
Cheapest renewal: $21.11

1.6× wholesale at Porkbun

.net

Verisign

Registry: $11.79
Cheapest renewal: $11.86

1.0× wholesale at Cloudflare

.com Going up

Verisign

Registry: $10.46
Cheapest renewal: $10.46

1.0× wholesale at Cloudflare

.ai

Government of Anguilla

Registry: $80.00
Cheapest renewal: $80.00

1.0× wholesale at Cloudflare

.dev

Google Registry

Registry: $12.20
Cheapest renewal: $12.20

1.0× wholesale at Cloudflare

.page

Google Registry

Registry: $10.20
Cheapest renewal: $10.20

1.0× wholesale at Cloudflare

.website

Radix

Registry: $20.20
Cheapest renewal: $20.20

1.0× wholesale at Cloudflare

.shop

GMO Registry

Registry: $30.20
Cheapest renewal: $30.20

1.0× wholesale at Cloudflare

Wholesale from registry and ICANN filings, including the $0.20 ICANN fee on generic TLDs, and checked against Cloudflare's at-cost prices. Methodology

Top price pages

The providers, GPUs, domains, models and comparisons people look up most.