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Laravel Cloud's new $5 Starter tier with scale-to-zero hibernation sounds like it kills the $5 VPS. We run the honest 12-month cost math for a real Laravel app, queues, scheduler, database and all, and show exactly where each option wins.
Laravel Cloud Managed Queues autoscale to zero, but Horizon still wins on delayed jobs, tags, and Redis control. The honest comparison with real numbers.
What Laravel Cloud, Forge, and a self-managed Hetzner VPS actually cost at 1k, 10k, and 100k users. Real numbers and a clear recommendation for each stage.
Laravel Cloud is getting a $5/month plan, spend caps, and 10x faster scale-to-zero. Here's what changed and what it means for your next deployment decision.