Platform library
Platform library: what you rent, and what owning changes
Each page takes one platform, or one pair of them, and sets out what the vendor publishes about price, contract term, code, data and exit — next to the option of running your own. Every fact links to its source and carries the date it was checked.
Updated Sep 25, 2026
FinTech & Trading
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Section page- Matching engine developmentThe venue around the matching loop, the build stages and the questions to ask
- Trading platform developmentOrder management, pre-trade risk, market data and venue connectivity, stage by stage
- Trading terminal developmentAn order book you can trust, frames not ticks, order state that survives a reconnect
AdTech
Industry pageAlternatives
Section page- EpomWhite-label DSP terms: code, data and exit
- Google Ad ManagerWhere the free tier ends and what follows it
- Microsoft Invest (Xandr)After the shutdown: rent another DSP or own one
- The Trade DeskA percentage of spend, 60 days' notice, and six alternatives
- AdButlerPlan prices, add-on prices, and what an own ad server changes
Comparisons
Section pageGenAI
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Section page- Amazon BedrockPrices, data terms and the model clock, against clouds, direct APIs and self-hosting
- Azure OpenAIToken prices by context tier, PTU hours, retirement dates and what an own model changes
- Amazon TextractPer-page prices, data terms and what an own document pipeline changes
- Fin (Intercom)What the $0.99 outcome price counts, and when your own agent pays off
Comparisons
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