







Drupal's infrastructure costs about $3 million a year, or $10 per site, but funding covers only $7.50, leaving a fragile gap.
Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model
Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on it most.

Founders Startup Program
For the youngest projects and startups. Participants will have up to €1,000 cloud credits to use over one year on our multi-cloud products.

Pricing
Flexible pricing tiers for developers: Free tier with 50 credits, Pro at $20/month, Pro+ at $40/month, and Power at $200/month.

Wikipedia Made $184 Million in 2025, Spent $3.4 Million on Hosting
Wikipedia Made $184 Million in 2025, Spent $3.4 Million on Hosting
Here's How Much It'll Cost To Build A DIY Raspberry Pi DAKBoard - SlashGear
To build a DAKboard cheaply at home, you'll need a recent Raspberry Pi, a monitor, and some peripherals. This is what it will cost.

Anthropic commits to spending $200 billion on Google's cloud and chips: Report
The commitment suggests the AI startup accounts for more than 40 per cent of the revenue backlog Google disclosed to investors last week, according to the report.
How We're Funded
IOI is supported through a mix of philanthropic support and financial commitments from institutions, consortia-based organizations, and more. As a sustainability focused not-for-profit initiative, we are keenly aware of the strains that exist on the current funding landscape for open infrastructure non-profits. We are dedicated at IOI to exploring revenue

Why compute might get 10x more expensive in coming years
If a human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over $250k a year. That’s 15x today’s spot price.

Developer AI Token Costs Could Exceed Their Salaries in Two Years - Slashdot
"Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers' AI token usage as they do for their salaries," writes InfoWorld: According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer's monthly salary within the next two years. This is not only because developers ...

AI Benefits - But at What Cost?
In 2026 we can all agree that AI and agentic development are certainly exciting topics which many see yielding great productivity gains. But as the investor-subsidized pricing of these services gives way to realistic and profitable business models, where will the real costs land?

Visualising AI spending: How does it compare with history’s mega projects?
AI spending is projected to reach $2.5 trillion in 2026, surpassing the largest scientific and infrastructure projects.

GitHub says individuals and orgs have invested $100M+ in open source maintainers and projects via GitHub Sponsors since 2019, with $10M in the past five months (Stephanie Lincoln/The GitHub Blog) github.blog/open-source/maintainers/100-m… | techmeme.com/260721/p3#a260721p3