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Beehiiv vs MailerLite vs Substack: Newsletter Platform Pricing Playbook

Substack takes 10 percent of every paid subscription plus Stripe fees; beehiiv and MailerLite charge flat monthly plan prices and take 0 percent. This playbook prices all three at 1,000, 10,000 and 50,000 subscribers, with reproducible monthly cost math, break-even conversions, and the free-tier ceilings that decide when each one stops being free.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-08

Hetzner vs Contabo vs OVH: Bare-Metal & VPS Pricing Playbook

Three vendors sell the same vCPUs and RAM at wildly different prices — and the cheapest sticker is a first-term price. This playbook prices Hetzner, Contabo, and OVHcloud at three workloads, with the renewal steps, the stock limits, and the break-even count where dedicated beats cloud.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-08

Squarespace vs Wix vs Weebly: Website Builder Pricing Playbook

A brochure site costs $156 a year on Weebly Personal and $228 on Squarespace Basic — but once the site starts selling, the order reverses. This playbook prices Squarespace, Wix, and Weebly at $2,000 and $10,000 a month in sales, with the fee break-evens that decide which tier to buy.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-08

Surfer vs Frase vs Clearscope: SEO Content-Optimization Pricing Playbook

Surfer sells documents by the year, Frase sells articles by the month, Clearscope sells drafts by the month — and both Clearscope plans cap drafts at 20 a month. This playbook prices all three at 5, 25 and 100 articles a month, with reproducible per-article math, 1-year and 3-year totals, and the allowance trap that decides your bill.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-08

Toggl vs Harvest vs Clockify: Time-Tracking Pricing, Worked Per Seat

For a 10-person team that bills by the hour, Clockify Standard costs $658.80 a year on annual billing against $1,080 for Toggl Starter and Harvest Teams — but the cheapest tier is not the cheapest outcome. This playbook prices all three vendors per seat on both billing cycles, shows which tier gates billable rates, invoicing and approvals, and works the break-even math for a solo freelancer and a 10-person agency.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-08

AWS EC2 vs Google Compute Engine vs Azure VM Pricing

AWS EC2, Google Compute Engine and Azure VMs price the same 2-vCPU, 8-GiB machine three ways: on-demand from $0.06701142 to $0.097118 an hour, three-year commitments from $22.01 to $27.69 a month, and Spot from $0.020266 an hour — with the arithmetic for 1, 5 and 20 machines.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-07

Elasticsearch vs OpenSearch vs Algolia: Search Pricing Playbook

Elastic Cloud sells RAM-hours, Amazon OpenSearch Service sells instance-hours plus EBS storage, and Algolia sells search requests and records. The same store pays $307.85, $699.92, or $4,455.00 a month for the same workload — worked here on real November 2026 rates.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-07

Shopify vs Etsy vs Amazon: Seller Fees at $5K and $50K a Month

Shopify charges a plan plus a card rate, Etsy charges four fees on every order, and Amazon charges a plan plus 15 percent plus fulfillment. Run against identical $5,000 and $50,000 months, the cheapest channel is arithmetic — and Amazon never wins on fees alone.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-07

Stripe Billing vs Chargebee vs Recurly: Subscription Billing Pricing Playbook

Three vendors, three different products wearing the same name: Stripe sells billing inside its payments stack at 0.7% of volume, Chargebee sells a gateway-neutral billing layer from $0 plus 0.80%, and Recurly sells subscription operations from $249 plus 0.9% above $40K — priced here at 500, 5,000 and 50,000 invoices a month, with dunning, proration and tax costed line by line.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-07

Mailchimp vs Klaviyo vs ActiveCampaign: Email Automation Playbook

The sticker price is not the decision. The automation ceiling is: Mailchimp caps Essentials flows at 4 steps, ActiveCampaign caps Starter at 5 actions, and Klaviyo charges by active profile with no step cap at all. This playbook prices the ceiling at 1,000, 10,000 and 50,000 contacts.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-06

Ahrefs vs Semrush vs Moz Pro: SEO Tool Pricing Playbook

Three SEO tools, three different meters. The same 1,500 keywords cost $143 a month on Moz, $248.17 on Semrush, and $207.50 on Ahrefs — this guide prices every tier from the vendor pricing pages.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-05

Shopify vs WooCommerce vs BigCommerce: Platform Fees, Worked at $10K and $50K a Month

Shopify charges a plan plus a card rate, BigCommerce charges a plan plus a revenue cap, and WooCommerce charges no platform fee at all and bills you in hosting and extensions instead. This guide runs all three price lists against identical $10,000 and $50,000 months, so the cheapest platform is arithmetic, not preference.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-05

Stripe vs Square vs PayPal: Payment Processing Fees, Worked at Three Volumes

Three processors, three meters: Stripe charges per transaction, Square charges per plan and per channel, and PayPal charges per payment type. This guide prices all three at 10,000, 50,000, and 200,000 dollars a month, at a 50 dollar average order — with the break-even volumes and the dispute math.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-05

YouTube Ads vs TikTok Ads: The Video ROAS Playbook

A $10,000 video budget buys 555,556 YouTube impressions or 1,225,490 on TikTok. This guide runs the funnel on both, finds where the medians contradict each other, and prices the answer.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-05

Linear vs Jira vs ClickUp: The Engineering Issue Tracker Decision, Priced Per Seat

Three trackers, three theories of engineering work: Linear’s opinionated speed, Jira’s enterprise process depth, and ClickUp’s everything-app breadth. This comparison prices all three per seat from the vendors’ own pricing pages and names the workflow ceiling that forces each switch.

By Enow A. Jovial • 2026-11-04