Everyone promises Heroku-like simplicity with cloud-scale performance, but which PaaS actually delivers? We break down real-world costs for identical workloads: Flightcontrol at $400/month vs Vercel at $1,010 vs Railway at $41. The AWS complexity tax is real—teams spend 30% of infrastructure time just maintaining deployment pipelines. Discover when paying $397/month saves you $175K/year, and when building your own infrastructure actually makes sense.

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