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24 alternatives to Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison

Hi everyone, My name's Kaveh: I'm the founder of www.usage.ai EC2 Pricing: https://ec2pricing.usage.ai/ I thought the previous generation of EC2 Pricing Pages were getting quite slow and a bit buggy. So, I'm excited to announce that we launched a free, new EC2 pricing page for the community. Do you often look up EC2 Pricing? Would love to hear your thoughts direct: [email protected]

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A free and easy-to-use tool for comparing EC2 Instance features and prices.

    2011 · ec2instances.info · its alternatives →

  2. 2IB

    Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage (https://www.usage.ai/) We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. Stakeholders, especially engineers, are required to spend unnecessary time manually finding underutilized or overly expensive EC2s. We believe the optimization process should be done automatically through a series of sophisticated algorithms. At the moment, there are over 70,000 AWS EC2 prices - doing that manually just won't scale at most organizations. My background is in software engineering. Previous to founding Usage, I…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs rather than focusing on business problems. Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups. Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically,…

    2022 · usage.ai · its alternatives →

  6. 6U2

    Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We launched on Hacker News for the first time early last year, and we've made a lot of progress since then. We've saved tens of millions of dollars for companies, and we are even more excited to announce the launch of a new product: insured reservations for RDS! We worked closely with AWS on this feature and are excited to finally make it generally available. We help companies drive down AWS EC2 & RDS spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    2017 · ec2-price.info · its alternatives →

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    Today, Vantage announced the launch of its Cloud Pricing API in Beta. Users may now programmatically access product prices from various cloud infrastructure and service providers - the first of which is...

    2021 · vantage.sh · its alternatives →

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    The LLM providers are constantly adding new models and updating their API prices. Anyone building AI applications knows that these prices are very important to their bottom line. The only place I am aware of is going to these provider's individual website pages to check the price per token. To solve this inconvenience I spent a few hours making pricepertoken.com which has the latest model's up-to-date prices all in one place. Thinking about adding image models too especially since you have multiple options (fal, replicate) to use the same model and the prices are not always the same.

    2025 · pricepertoken.com · its alternatives →

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    We provide financial planning and analysis for enterprise infrastructure to help you understand, negotiate, and optimize your cloud spend.

    2020 · duckbillgroup.com · its alternatives →

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    The m5a.2xlarge instance is in the General purpose family with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and up to 10 Gibps of bandwidth starting at $0.344 per hour.

    2022 · instances.vantage.sh · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN community, [Direct Link: www.usage.ai] I’m Kaveh, founder and CEO of Usage, and am excited to show you Usage, an app that helps you slash your AWS EC2 bill by 50% in ~5min by trading reservations. As of today, Usage is in General Availability and any AWS user can use it. It works by creating a limited-access IAM role (ReadOnly + Ability to Manage Reservations) into your AWS account(s). The AWS console interface has made it hard for companies to optimize their AWS spend. After years of working for different companies that use AWS, I still find it difficult to understand how much money…

    2022 · its alternatives →

  13. 13AB

    Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We launched a new free tool to help engineers understand their AWS spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up end up becoming cloud accountants or end up forking over a big % of their AWS bill for a tool to understand costs rather than focusing on business problems. Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups. Here's how this new tool works: It's fully self-serve and…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Calculate and compare the cost of the latest LLM APIs

    2024 · docsbot.ai · its alternatives →

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    EC2 Price API - API To check ec2 prices

    2020 · ec2.shop · its alternatives →

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    Hey all! I'm building these collection of APIs to help query SERP, PDP and Reviews data from Ecommerce sites solo since the past few years. I have hundreds of customers and revenue. ScrapingBee (a popular scraping API service) has started copying me now so I thought of doing a Show HN finally. Please butcher my product. I'd really appreciate your feedback. Do reach out via email if you'd like extra free credits, will add them to your account if your email address doesn't look like spam.

    2024 · docs.unwrangle.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi I'm Victor, the developer of CloudPrice.net. Over the last 8 months, we've worked hardly to expand our former site, AzurePrice.net, to also support AWS and GCP instances. I would greatly appreciate feedback from the community on what is good or what else might be missing. Below is a quick list of main features that we have: - Single view of all savings options - Metadata about Azure, AWS, GCP instances - Region pricing comparison - Best alternatives (supercharged using ML) - More than 50 filters - Pricing in different currencies - Side by side comparison - Price / Performance - API…

    2024 · cloudprice.net · its alternatives →

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    Compare prices across all european Amazon stores

    2023 · eurosaver.net · its alternatives →

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    Hey! I'm Andrei. I got frustrated by how people tend to build overcomplicated backend systems, being "motivated" by big tech case studies and popular books. So, I started exploring lean architecture, and building my digital garden of ideas, approaches and data that align with this direction. Here I want to present one of the tools – Sizing tool for PostgreSQL. I've benchmarked PostgreSQL on different EC2 instances and disks, with different initial data sets to see performance that these instances can give you. And I've built a tool to visualize this data, which I welcome you to explore. So,…

    Jul 2026 · postgres.saneengineer.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I've been working on a side project over quarantine called Usage.ai and I finally feel comfortable enough to launch it. We're a service that plugs directly into AWS, automatically finds savings, and applies those savings at the press of a confirmation button all without ever needing to go to an AWS console. I'd love to get HN's thoughts on it! Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/2a6f1c8e4c214914a1cdd88c6fdec4ac Link: https://www.usage.ai/

    2020 · its alternatives →

  21. 21IM

    Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend by buying and selling 3-year no-upfront reserved instances. Why? Because there's almost no liquidity on the AWS EC2 RI Marketplace and it can take a while, if at all, to sell an RI if you need to stop using one. Previous to founding Usage, I worked at JPMorgan Chase as a summer analyst. Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically, typically we do this live…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    A better dashboard to manage your EC2 instances

    2021 · ec2-dashboard.com · its alternatives →

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    Discover the best deals across European Amazon stores

    2023 · comparizon.eu · its alternatives →

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    Do’s & don’ts for first-time founders building on AWS

    2022 · guides.digger.dev · its alternatives →

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