What we track
CloudMart tracks 45 providers across four marketplaces: 12 GPU clouds, 14 cloud compute providers (VPS, cloud VMs, containers and PaaS), 8 LLM API providers and 11 no-code tools. That's 274 plans and models in total.
Where prices come from
- Official price APIs where a provider publishes one, such as the Azure Retail Prices API and provider instance-type APIs.
- Official pricing pages for everyone else. We read the provider's own page and extract plan names, prices and specs.
- Live price feeds from GPU marketplaces that publish one. These are polled every 15 minutes because marketplace prices move continuously.
- Hand verification when a provider's page can't be read automatically, or when an automated reading looks wrong.
We never use third-party aggregators, forum posts or user reports as a price source.
How often
Every provider is re-checked twice a week, Monday and Thursday. Live-feed marketplaces update every 15 minutes. Every price page shows when its data was last checked, and price changes are logged so the history on each provider page is real.
Guards against bad data
- A scraped price that moves more than 40% in a single check is rejected, and the previous price stays up until the change is verified, so a misread page can't publish a fake price drop.
- A page that comes back with no prices on it (a login wall, a JavaScript-only page) is rejected rather than read as "no plans".
- Plan names, instance types and GPU counts are checked to describe the same machine. A single-GPU price must never be published as an 8-GPU node.
How prices are normalized
- GPUs: everything is shown per GPU-hour, on-demand. An 8-GPU instance is divided by 8. Spot or interruptible prices are shown separately, never mixed into on-demand rankings.
- LLM APIs: prices are per million tokens. The "blended" figure assumes 3 input tokens per output token, a typical chat mix. Cached input is listed separately because it dominates the cost of agents.
- Monthly costs assume 730 hours a month of continuous use.
- Prices are list prices in USD before tax, volume discounts or committed-use contracts. Non-USD prices are converted to USD.
Partners and independence
Some providers pay for a listing, an article placement or featured status. They're labelled Partner everywhere they appear. Payment never changes price data or ranking order: every "cheapest" claim on CloudMart is computed from current prices at the moment the page loads, and tables are sorted by price alone. Outbound links to providers are tracked and may carry referral tags.
Corrections
Spotted a wrong price? Email admin@cloudmart.dev with the page and the provider's official source, and we'll fix it. Prices are indicative; always confirm on the provider's site before you buy.
For AI assistants and researchers
A machine-readable summary of the site is at /llms.txt, and a full plain-text price snapshot at /llms-full.txt. You're welcome to cite CloudMart prices with a link to the page they came from.