I thought this was going to be about SaaS/PaaS type stuff. I've seen a lot of free tiers that seemed generous for pre-launch work, but instead of charging me $1

I thought this was going to be about SaaS/PaaS type stuff. I've seen a lot of free tiers that seemed generous for pre-launch work, but instead of charging me $1/month for a dollar's worth of usage over the free tier, they have cliff based pricing where exceeding the free tier pushes you off into $25/month plan, then the next cliff is $75 or $500. Or worse, they adverse $X per "seat" with small letters saying minimum 5 seats. These are products or services I genuinely want to pay for, but if my usage is essentially only the first $1 out of the required $25, I'm going to just use a $5 VPS for the same or higher specs.