Gary Hockin: “I love Laravel Cloud, but because I have 1 trillion side pro…”

Gary Hockin @GeeH7h

I love Laravel Cloud, but because I have 1 trillion side projects running it's getting a little expensive. Is @brefphp significantly cheaper?

08:23 · Nov 10, 2026commit 21c32b6

David Ciulla @offskip-dave6h

Are you using scale-to-zero on Laravel Cloud? Not sure about @brefphp being cheaper, @mnapoli wdyt?

Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli6h

Without a DB, side projects are literally free with @brefphp With a DB, either you use a small RDS, even share it between projects, or use DSQL and it's free! Point your agent at https://bref.sh/docs/environment/database-dsql and for most small projects it just works.

bref.shUsing Aurora DSQL with Bref – BrefUse an Aurora DSQL serverless database in your PHP application on AWS Lambda.

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