Data sources and methodology
Accuracy first: every price comes from an official provider API, pricing page or promotion page, with a source link and check date. Prices we cannot verify are not listed.
How updates work
- A scheduled GitHub Actions job fetches prices daily, commits JSON snapshots to the repository, then rebuilds and deploys the site.
- If a provider fetch fails, returns nothing, or shrinks suspiciously, its last good data is kept and flagged.
- A compact daily snapshot powers the price history charts (1 days so far).
- FX: ECB daily reference rate via frankfurter.dev; currently 1 USD = 6.6743 CNY (2026-10-22).
- Yearly prices are only shown when published by the provider or derived from an official discount rule.
Sources by provider
| Provider | Source | Plans | Fetch status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tencent Cloud | Parsed daily from the official Lighthouse "Price Overview" document (Linux bundles); new-customer promotions are checked by hand. Note: some monthly prices on the product page cards differ from the price overview document; we track the document. Confirm on the checkout page. | 75 | OK Last success: 2026-10-22 |
| Alibaba Cloud | Parsed daily from the Alibaba Cloud international Simple Application Server pricing page (USD, Hong Kong and overseas regions). Mainland China (aliyun.com) bundle prices are only shown on the logged-in checkout page, so they are not listed here. | 7 | OK Last success: 2026-10-22 |
| Huawei Cloud | Read daily from the public data behind Huawei Cloud's price calculator (Flexus L instances in Beijing-4, Shanghai-1, Guangzhou), summing mandatory bundle components as the calculator does. These are calculator list prices; new-customer first-year deals are often much cheaper. | 22 | OK Last success: 2026-10-22 |
| AWS Lightsail | Downloaded daily from the official AWS Price List (AmazonLightsail); monthly cap = hourly × 744 h, as Lightsail bills. | 44 | OK Last success: 2026-10-22 |
| Vultr | Daily from Vultr's public API (/v2/plans, /v2/regions). | 169 | OK Last success: 2026-10-22 |
| DigitalOcean | Parsed daily from the official DigitalOcean Droplet pricing page. Only the Basic Regular tier of Basic Droplets is shown by default on the pricing page; Premium Intel/AMD are not tracked yet. | 31 | OK Last success: 2026-10-22 |
| Linode (Akamai) | Daily from the public Linode API (/v4/linode/types, incl. region prices). | 117 | OK Last success: 2026-10-22 |
| Hetzner | Daily from the Hetzner Cloud pricing pages and the price data they load (USD, incl. primary IPv4, excl. VAT). Plans marked "not available" on Hetzner's site are flagged here as well. | 45 | OK Last success: 2026-10-22 |
| Oracle Cloud | Daily from Oracle's official price list API; monthly price of common shapes derived from OCPU and memory unit prices × 744 h + 50 GB boot volume. OCI has no fixed bundles; listed shapes are examples priced from official unit rates. A1 within Always Free can cost nothing. | 5 | OK Last success: 2026-10-22 |
Manually maintained entries
Promotional or login-only prices are checked by hand and stored in data/manual/*.yaml with source and check date:
- 轻量应用服务器 4核4G 3M（新用户首年特惠） — Last checked 2026-10-22 · Source
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Generated at: 2026-10-22T16:08:04.256Z