How Stream’s Entry Plan Compares to In-House Solutions

Introduction Stream's hosted newsfeed API offers a cost-effective alternative to in-house solutions by eliminating maintenance and reducing development time. The blog post analyzes the monthly costs of various in-house solutions compared to GetStream's Entry plan, which is priced at $50 per month. The comparison involves three common in-house solutions: using Redis as feed cache storage, Redis as primary feed storage, and Cassandra or MongoDB as feed storage. Each of these solutions requires AWS infrastructure and incurs additional monthly costs for components like task brokers and web workers, making them more expensive than GetStream's offering. Redis as feed cache storage is the least expensive in-house option, costing $142 or more per month, while Redis as primary storage and Cassandra/MongoDB solutions can cost $342 and $382 monthly, respectively. The post concludes that even the simplest in-house deployment is significantly more costly than GetStream's plan, highlighting the financial advantage of opting for a hosted API solution.