March 2025

Electric declared its Postgres sync engine production-ready after a rewrite that dropped the embedded client database in favour of HTTP shape streams. The narrowing — read path only, writes stay in your API — is what makes it the cheapest thing on this page to remove later.

Ships browser sessions alongside scrape/crawl/extract endpoints and hosted agent loops in one API, setting the pattern several competitors followed later in the year.

Daytona relaunched its open-source dev-environment manager as a per-second sandbox runtime aimed at AI agents, leading with sub-100 ms creation claims and snapshot-based images. It marks the point where boot time became the category's headline metric.

Railway Metal shifted the platform off rented cloud capacity onto machines Railway owns, and passed a substantial share of the saving through as lower compute prices. It is the main reason Railway is now competitive with Render and Fly on persistent container cost, rather than merely nicer to use.

The Google Domains book moved to Squarespace across 2023–24 at grandfathered rates. By early 2025 most of those registrations had renewed at Squarespace's standard flat pricing, which on a .com is roughly double what Google charged. Squarespace did not raise prices so much as stop honouring an acquired price list, and it drove a visible wave of transfers to Cloudflare and Porkbun.