Methodology & disclosure
Who runs this site
CloudTopHosts is operated by WiserWeb. WiserWeb also sells WiserWebCloud, an app hosting platform listed here. It is flagged Publisher-owned wherever it appears and is compared on the same columns as everyone else.
What the prices are
Every figure is a provider's advertised list price in US dollars, as published on the date shown. We do not include negotiated, volume, or promotional pricing unless the provider publishes it as its standard rate, and we say so in the notes. Where a provider lists prices in another currency, the notes show the original.
Every number has a source
Each price links to the page it came from and carries a confidence mark:
- ✓ taken from the provider's own pricing page or docs.
- ◐ the provider's page confirmed some fields and was silent on others.
- 2° from a third party (for example a router's public model list). It is shown until we confirm it on the provider's own page.
An unknown price is shown as "—" and is never treated as zero. A missing number never ranks as the cheapest.
How things are ordered
Tables are ordered by price: blended price per 1M tokens for LLMs (input and output weighted 3:1), price per GPU-hour for GPUs, and monthly price for hosting plans. Nothing else changes the order.
Sponsored listings
Providers can buy a sponsored placement. It appears in a box labelled "Sponsored", separate from the price tables. Sponsorship does not move a provider up any table, change its prices, or affect what we write about it. Sponsored links carry rel="sponsored". See Advertise.
Price changes
Prices are re-collected regularly. When an advertised price differs from the previous collection, the change is logged on the price changes page.
Corrections
If a price is wrong or stale, tell us with a link to the provider's page and we will fix it and log the change.