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At half an hour of work a day, all three container meters land within seven cents of each other. What separates them is whatever has to stay awake to receive the request: $5 for a Worker, cents for a stopped Fly machine, $16.43 a month for a load balancer before the container starts.
Five gateways took most of the production traffic this year. Routing, cost, and governance compared, plus the honest ops bill behind the cheap option.
Twelve engineers and forty CI identities run about $252 a month on one of these and about $5,800 on another. The unit printed on the invoice is most of the comparison. The rest is which directory the audit log lives in.
Port lists $30 and $40 a seat and caps entities and automation runs on top, and its own two tables disagree about the run limit. Cortex and Spotify publish nothing. The free option ships a minor release every month and backports security fixes for six.
Setup guides tell you to run npx -y @anthropic-ai/github-mcp-server. That package does not exist. The useful part of an MCP setup is not the list of servers, it is how you resolve which artifact is really the vendor's.
Node publishes end-of-life dates four years out. Deno maintains one LTS line at a time and has already left a two-month gap between two of them. Bun's security policy lists one supported version: 1.x.
Cloudflare bills CPU time, Lambda bills wall-clock, and Vercel splits the difference by pausing CPU billing during I/O while memory keeps running. At 100M requests the cheapest and the most expensive swap places depending on whether your function waits or computes.
Docker Desktop's license threshold is the reason most teams start looking. Here is what the three usual replacements actually cost you in compatibility, security posture, and money.
Hosted runners got cheaper in January and the per-job rounding rule still quietly costs you more than any of it. And before you price a move to GitLab, CircleCI, or Buildkite: none of the four bill the same unit.
Kubernetes is extraordinary engineering and wildly overbuilt for most teams under fifteen engineers. Five things that are genuinely production-grade and stop one rung earlier.