StackValue Editorial

StackValue Editorial checks every price against the vendor's own pricing page, records the date it was checked, and links the source. Where a figure cannot be verified, it is left out and the gap is stated.

The .net price rise on 1 March 2027 is $1.09, the most the contract allows. Your registrar gap may be five times that

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Horizontal bar chart titled: The .net increase is $1.09, the maximum allowed. The registrar gap is $6.06. Three bars show what one .net domain costs for one year today: at cost (registry plus ICANN fee) $11.11, with a grey extension to $12.20 from 1 March 2027; Porkbun list price $12.52, post-March price not announced; Namecheap renewal price $18.58, not announced. An arrow between the Porkbun and Namecheap bars is labelled $6.06 a year, more than five times the increase. Footer: fees from Verisign SEC filing and ICANN; registrar prices read from each registrar own page on 9 September 2026. stackvaluelab.com

Verisign raises the .net registry wholesale fee from $10.91 to $12.00 on 1 March 2027, the full 10% its ICANN contract allows and the first .net increase since February 2024. At Porkbun a .net is $12.52 today; at Namecheap it renews for $18.58. What renewing early saves, with every figure read from Verisign’s SEC filing, ICANN’s contract, Porkbun, Namecheap and Cloudflare.

The .com price rise on 1 November is $0.73. Your registrar may be costing you ten times that

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One .com domain for one year at three kinds of registrar. At cost, meaning the registry fee plus the ICANN transaction fee, is $10.46 today and $11.17 from 1 November 2026. Porkbun lists $11.08 today and about $11.81 from 1 November. Namecheap renews at $18.48 with no post-November price announced, which is $7.40 a year more than Porkbun, about ten times the size of the increase.

Verisign raises the .com registry wholesale fee from $10.26 to $10.97 on 1 November 2026 at 04:00 UTC, which is about $0.73 on a Porkbun renewal. The larger number is the registrar spread: $11.08 against $18.48 for the same domain. What renewing early actually saves, with every figure read from Verisign, ICANN, Porkbun, Namecheap and Cloudflare.

Infrastructure price changes in 2026: the dated ledger

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Timeline of 2026 infrastructure price changes by effective date: netcup 19 March new orders +24.33% and 1 May existing +18.51%, OVHcloud April +9 to 11%, Backblaze B2 1 May $6 to $6.95 per TB, Scaleway 1 June compute +2% and IPv4 +25%, Hetzner 15 June CX23 EUR 3.99 to 5.49 and CPX22 +144%, Bunny DNS 24 June query fees removed, Wasabi 1 July $7.99 per TB, Amazon SES 21 July new accounts $0.10 to $0.16 per 1,000, OVHcloud 1 October disk and IPv4 unbundled up to +21.9%, .com 1 November wholesale $10.26 to $10.97, Gemini Flash API 1 January 2027 every paid rate doubled.

Every dated 2026 price change for VPS and cloud, object storage, transactional email, DNS, .com and .net domains and LLM APIs in one table: the vendor’s old and new figure, the effective date, who is affected and the cheapest way around. Thirteen dated notices from eleven vendors, one undated change at Contabo, plus the six dates still ahead.

Gemini 3.x Flash API prices double on 1 January 2027, and GPT-5.6 Sol’s promo rate is only guaranteed to 21 November. The arithmetic for an automation that pays per call.

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Gemini 3.8, 3.7 and 3.6 Flash API price per million tokens, paid tier: through 31 December 2026 versus from 1 January 2027. Standard input $0.75 to $1.50, output $3.75 to $7.50, Batch and Flex $0.375 to $0.75 and $1.875 to $3.75, Priority $1.35 to $2.70 and $6.75 to $13.50, context caching $0.075 to $0.15.

Google’s pricing page dates the Gemini 3.8, 3.7 and 3.6 Flash rates: $0.75 in and $3.75 out per million tokens through 31 December 2026, $1.50 and $7.50 from 1 January 2027, on every service tier. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol promo ($4 in, $20 out) is guaranteed at least to 21 November 2026. What that does to a 100, 1,000 and 10,000-call-a-day workflow, and the three moves the pages themselves allow.

OVHcloud splits local disk and IPv4 out of the instance price on 1 October 2026. The arithmetic per instance, and the 2026 European cloud ledger.

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OVHcloud B3 instances: percentage bill increase on 1 October 2026 for the same configuration, standard versus flex. b3-8 +19.5% standard and +18.9% flex, b3-64 +14.9% versus +2.3%, b3-640 +1.5% versus +0.2%. Local disk and IPv4 become separate lines; compute unchanged.

From 1 October 2026 OVHcloud bills local NVMe (about EUR 0.11 per GB a month) and public IPv4 (EUR 1.97 a month) separately on B3, C3 and R3 instances. Same configuration costs 1.4% to 21.9% more; b3-8 goes from EUR 37 to EUR 45. Who is affected, the two levers that cut it, and the 2026 price ledger for Hetzner, netcup, Scaleway and OVHcloud.

Amazon SES now starts new accounts at $0.16 per 1,000 emails. One click in the console puts you back on $0.10.

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Amazon SES price per 1,000 outbound emails, read 6 September 2026: a la carte $0.10, Essentials $0.16 (default for new accounts since 21 July 2026), Pro $0.22, Enterprise $0.23

Since 21 July 2026 a new Amazon SES account defaults to the Essentials plan at $0.16 per 1,000 emails, 60% above the $0.10 a la carte rate that still exists. The SES free tier is gone for new customers. What changed, who it applies to, what it costs by volume, and the console step that takes effect immediately.

Managed hosting cost calculator

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Line chart of monthly cost against server size for Cloudways, ServerPilot plus a Droplet, Kinsta and a bare Droplet, September 2026 list prices

Managed WordPress hosting is sold three ways on three different price curves. Set the server size, the number of sites and the bandwidth, and this calculator prices each shape from published list prices.