Laravel Cloud's $5 Plan vs a $5 VPS: The Real Cost Math
Laravel Cloud's new $5 Starter tier with scale-to-zero hibernation sounds like it kills the $5 VPS. We run the honest 12-month cost math for a real Laravel app, queues, scheduler, database and all, and show exactly where each option wins.
Sameh Elhawary
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Jul 14, 2026
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13 min read