CloudMart Blog

VPS vs PaaS vs IaaS vs BaaS: What You're Actually Buying, in Plain English

Four acronyms, one real question: how much of the server do you want to manage? The pizza test, real 2026 prices from $4.50/mo, and a plain-English answer for which one your project needs.

July 4, 2026 · 7 min read

LLM APIs

GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash: The Frontier API Price War

OpenAI wants $5/M for gpt-5.5, Anthropic $5/M for Opus 4.8, Google $1.50/M for Gemini 3.5 Flash. Verified July 2026 prices, real workload math, and which frontier model is actually cheapest to run.

June 27, 2026 · 7 min read

LLM APIs

LLM API Pricing in 2026: GPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs DeepSeek, Cost Per Million Tokens

Token prices span 600× - from $0.05 to $30 per million input tokens. The full July 2026 pricing board across 8 providers, monthly cost math for 3 real workloads, and the caching trick that cuts bills 90%.

July 1, 2026 · 8 min read

Cost Guide

What It Actually Costs to Run a SaaS in 2026: From $0 to 10,000 Users

Your first 100 users can cost $0/mo. Your first 10,000 can cost less than a gym membership. A stage-by-stage infrastructure budget with real plan prices - compute, database, and AI included.

June 16, 2026 · 8 min read

GPU Pricing

The Cheapest Way to Fine-Tune an LLM in 2026: GPU Prices, LoRA Math, and When to Skip Training

A LoRA fine-tune of a 7B model costs $5-$15 in GPU time - if you pick the right card. Tracked prices for A100s, H100s, and 4090s, per-job cost math, and the cases where you shouldn't train at all.

June 8, 2026 · 7 min read

No-Code

Website Builder Pricing 2026: Wix vs Squarespace vs Webflow vs Framer vs WordPress.com

Entry prices are marketing - the plan you'll actually need runs $8-$49/mo. An honest tier-by-tier comparison, plus when Shopify or an AI app builder is the better call.

June 26, 2026 · 6 min read

Free Tiers

Free Cloud Hosting in 2026: Oracle's 24GB ARM Tier vs Everyone Else's Asterisks

Exactly one free tier runs real workloads: Oracle's 4 vCPU / 24GB ARM VMs. What's genuinely free across GCP, Render, Vercel, Netlify, and Supabase - every catch included.

June 24, 2026 · 6 min read

GPU Pricing

H100 Rental Prices in 2026: Lambda vs RunPod vs Vast.ai vs CoreWeave vs Big Cloud

A single H100 80GB costs $2.69-$6.98/hr depending on the provider - and $1.60 on spot. Real tracked prices for H100, A100, and RTX 4090 rentals, with per-job cost math.

June 22, 2026 · 7 min read

VPS Comparison

Cheapest Cloud VPS in 2026: Hetzner vs DigitalOcean vs Vultr vs Linode

The same 4 GB VPS costs $8 or $24/mo depending on the provider. Real pricing, included bandwidth, and the hidden costs most guides skip - across the four most popular developer clouds.

June 18, 2026 · 8 min read