PCC vs the usual bill

Cloudinary: cloudinary.com/pricing (Plus $99, 225 credits; 1 credit = 1 GB image bandwidth or 1,000 transforms). S3: aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing (first-tier data transfer out, US, about $0.09/GB). TinyPNG: tinypng.com/developers/pricing. PCC numbers are ours: pricing.json.

Offer	What it is	Entry paid plan	After the included pile
PCC Slid Phi Labs	Hosted lossless compressor. Files, or a live pipe for logs. Dual-licensed public source, or a paid grant to ship closed.	$9 / day · $49 / month (200 GB) · $490 / year (2,000 GB)	8¢ / GB. Card charges start at $1. First 2 GB each month are free with no plan.
Cloudinary Plus	Image and video platform. Credits cover transforms, storage, and CDN delivery.	$99 / month for 225 credits. One credit ≈ 1 GB image bandwidth or 1,000 transforms (~44¢ per credit if you spend them on bandwidth).	Buy a bigger plan. Not a lossless file compressor.
AWS S3 internet egress	Object storage. Sends your file out. Does not compress it.	Storage extra. First-tier transfer out about 9¢ / GB (US).	Still ~9¢ / GB, then slightly less at huge volume. You still ship the original size.
TinyPNG API	Image compress only (PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF).	500 images / month free, then 0.9¢ per image until 10,000.	0.2¢ per image after 10,000. Cheap for thumbnails. A 5 MB photo is 0.9¢; a 500 MB archive is the wrong product.

We are not cheaper than gzip on your own machine. We are not cheaper than a CDN that charges $0 to send bytes (Cloudflare R2). Those are not hosted lossless compressors.

We are cheaper than paying Cloudinary $99 to start, cheaper than paying AWS ~9¢/GB to ship uncompressed files, and cheaper per gigabyte than TinyPNG once the files are large. The lab publishes the meter. Source is dual-licensed. Hosted PCC is the grant that runs every own pathway on our machines.