Sponsor ColdTally

Reach engineers at the moment they're comparing sandbox and cloud browser costs. Sponsorship opens with the newsletter launch; register interest now and we'll reply with placements, dates and pricing before then.

Planned placements

pricing announced at launch

Placement	What you get	Frequency
Newsletter primary sponsor	Top slot in the weekly email.	One sponsor per issue
Newsletter classifieds	A short text slot in the weekly email.	2–3 per issue
Site-wide sponsor	One labelled banner across the site.	Monthly
Calculator sponsor	"Supported by" placement on the cost calculator.	Monthly
Featured listing	Expanded profile and links for tools we don't rank (observability, evals, gateways).	Monthly

The rules

every sponsor agrees to the independence policy

Sponsors get

A placement labelled "Sponsored" wherever it appears.
A listing on this page for as long as you sponsor.
Readers who are choosing agent infrastructure.

Sponsors never get

A spot in the comparison tables, the changelog or the cost-per-task data, if we rank you.
Any change to inclusion, order, data or method.
Private, early or "stealth" benchmark runs.
Paid or vendor-written content in the changelog or newsletter.

Current sponsors

None yet. Every sponsor will be listed here and labelled wherever it appears.

Help us measure

3 providers · startup time not yet measured

Provider	What we'd need	Why	Daily run, estimated
Vercel Sandbox	Pro, $20/mosource (opens in new tab)	Hobby's free quotas would cover the usage, but Hobby is for personal, non-commercial use only, and ColdTally is a commercial site. terms (opens in new tab)	334 sandboxes/mo, about $0.59 of usage, inside Pro's included $20 credit.
Browserbase	Developer, $20/mosource (opens in new tab)	The free plan includes 1 browser hour. That covers the daily run only with per-second billing. The pricing page doesn't state the billing increment, and per-minute rounding would need about 5.6 hours. pricing (opens in new tab)	334 sessions/mo, about 0.9 to 5.6 browser hours, well inside Developer's 100 browser hours.
Hyperbrowser	Startup, $30/mosource (opens in new tab)	The free 5,000 credits ($5) would likely cover the daily run for 8 months or more at these rates. They're a one-time allowance, so we'd need Startup once they run out. pricing (opens in new tab)	334 sessions/mo at $0.10/browser hour, about $0.09 to $0.56/mo.

Estimate: 11 runs a day (1 warm-up + 10 samples), 334 a month. Sandboxes: 2 vCPU default size, about 5 s of active CPU and the 60 s memory minimum per run. Browsers: up to 10 s per session (measured sessions take 2 to 3 s), and the low figure assumes per-second billing, the high one per-minute rounding. Prices from the ColdTally data, verified on each provider's pricing page.

Running the daily startup benchmark for these three needs a paid plan or ongoing credits. If you're one of these providers, or a community sponsor, you can cover it with credits or a sponsorship: sponsors@coldtally.com. Credits never affect rankings or numbers. Every provider runs the same open harness, all funding is disclosed on the methodology page, and every result is published in coldtally-data. A provider we don't track at all? Suggest it.