What are you building?
Pick the closest match. We'll show the cheapest way to put it online and what it costs each month.
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Websites
Pages people read in a browser.
Personal site or portfolio
from $0.87/monthA few pages about you or your work.
Still $0.87/month at around 1,000 people
Blog
from $0.87/monthPosts people can read and share.
Still $0.87/month at around 1,000 people
Business or landing page
from $0.87/monthTell customers what you do and how to reach you.
About $20.87/month at around 1,000 people
Content site with a CMS
from $0.87/monthPages your team edits in a dashboard, with a contact form.
About $15.87/month at around 1,000 people
Web apps
Sites where people sign in, buy or use something.
Web app with user logins
from $0.87/monthPeople sign up and keep their own data. Developers call this SaaS.
About $28.38/month at around 1,000 people
Online shop or paid product
from $1.17/monthSell products, downloads or subscriptions.
About $50.87/month at around 1,000 people
AI app
from $0.87/monthA chatbot or tool that uses an AI model.
Still $0.87/month at around 1,000 people
Mobile apps
iPhone and Android apps, built with React Native, Flutter or the native tools.
Mobile app
from $8.25/monthAn iPhone and Android app where people sign in.
About $33.25/month at around 1,000 people
Mobile app with subscriptions
from $8.70/monthPeople pay inside the app, through the App Store and Google Play.
About $78.25/month at around 1,000 people
Web and mobile app
from $9.12/monthOne product with a website and iPhone and Android apps.
About $54.12/month at around 1,000 people
Website prices include a .com domain (about $10 a year) and mobile prices include Apple's $99 yearly developer fee, both spread monthly. All are for your first few users, before tax.
What it costs as you grow
Example: Web app with user logins
Cloudflare Registrar · Cloudflare Pages · Neon · Resend
- Just metesting$0.87/mo
- Launchingaround 100 people$0.87/mo
- Growingaround 1,000 people$28.38/mo
- Popular10,000+ people$48.27/mo
Cloudflare Pages also covers Server functions, so you do not pay for them twice.
Neon also covers Login and File storage, so you do not pay for them twice.
Open this stackHow it works
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Pick what you're building
Or answer a few questions and we'll choose the services for you.
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See the monthly cost
From just you to thousands of people, on the cheapest plan that still fits.
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Spot the traps
Non-commercial terms, idle pausing, daily caps and overlapping services are flagged before they cost you.
The traps we flag
Most are worked out from each plan's own numbers, so a badge can never disagree with the price beside it. The rest are written from the provider's own pages and link to them.
- Non-commercial only
- The free plan's terms forbid using it for anything that makes money.
- Worked out from the plan's own numbers
- Pauses when idle
- Goes to sleep after a period without traffic, so the next visitor waits or sees an error.
- Worked out from the plan's own numbers
- Hard cap
- Stops working at the limit instead of billing for extra usage.
- Worked out from the plan's own numbers
- Daily cap
- Has a daily limit that runs out long before the monthly allowance would.
- Worked out from the plan's own numbers
- Card required
- Asks for a payment card even on the free plan.
- Worked out from the plan's own numbers
- Credit-based billing
- Uses its own credits instead of plain units, which makes costs harder to predict.
- Worked out from the plan's own numbers
- No permanent free plan
- The free option is a trial or one-off credit, not something you can stay on.
- Worked out from the plan's own numbers
- Priced per seat
- The price is per team member, so the bill grows with your team, not just your users.
- Worked out from the plan's own numbers
- Recent price change
- Pricing or free-tier limits changed recently. Double-check before relying on old guides.
- Written from the provider's own page, with a link
- Egress fees
- Charges every time data leaves the service, which grows fast with downloads.
- Written from the provider's own page, with a link
- SSO costs extra
- Single sign-on (SAML) for your team or your business customers is only on a higher plan or a paid add-on.
- Written from the provider's own page, with a link
- Compliance costs extra
- HIPAA (health data) or similar compliance needs a higher plan or a paid add-on.
- Written from the provider's own page, with a link
Compare one part of your stack
What each part of your site costs as you grow, provider by provider.
- DomainDomains & DNSCloudflare Registrar, Dynadot, Namecheap, Porkbun
- Website hostingFrontend & Static HostingAWS Amplify Hosting, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel
- App hostingPaaS & ContainersDigitalOcean App Platform, Fly.io, Railway, Render
- Server (VPS)Virtual Private ServersDigitalOcean Droplets, Hetzner Cloud, Linode (Akamai), Vultr Cloud Compute
- DatabaseDatabasesConvex, Firebase Firestore, Neon, PlanetScale Postgres, Supabase, Turso, Upstash Redis
- File storageObject Storage & CDNAmazon S3, Backblaze B2, Bunny.net Storage + CDN, Cloudflare R2, DigitalOcean Spaces
- LoginAuthenticationAuth0, Clerk, Firebase Authentication, Kinde, WorkOS AuthKit
- EmailTransactional EmailAmazon SES, Mailgun, Postmark, Resend, Twilio SendGrid
- PaymentsPayments & Merchant of RecordCreem, Dodo Payments, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, Polar, Stripe
- Background jobsBackground Jobs & QueuesAmazon SQS, Inngest, Trigger.dev, Upstash QStash
- Errors & logsError Tracking & LogsGlitchTip, Honeybadger, Sentry
- AnalyticsProduct & Web AnalyticsFathom Analytics, Plausible Analytics, PostHog
- AI modelLLM APIs & InferenceAnthropic Claude API, Google Gemini API, Groq API, Mistral AI API, OpenAI API
- Vector databaseVector Databasespgvector (Postgres extension), Pinecone, Qdrant Cloud, turbopuffer
- AI gatewayAI Gateways & SandboxesCloudflare AI Gateway, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway
- Site searchSearch EnginesAlgolia, Meilisearch Cloud, Typesense Cloud
- Tests & deploysCI/CD PipelinesCircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
- Server functionsServerless ComputeAWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Google Cloud Run
- Content editingHeadless CMSPrismic, Sanity, Storyblok
- Feature switchesFeature FlagsConfigCat, Flagsmith, GrowthBook
- Text messagesText Messages (SMS)Plivo, Telnyx, Twilio
- VideoVideo HostingBunny Stream, Cloudflare Stream, Mux
- FormsForm HandlingBasin, Formspree, Tally
- Live updatesRealtime MessagingAbly, PubNub, Pusher Channels
- iPhone appiPhone & iPad AppsApple App Store
- Android appAndroid AppsGoogle Play
- App buildsMobile App BuildsBitrise, Codemagic, Expo Application Services
- Push notificationsPush NotificationsExpo Push Notifications, Firebase Cloud Messaging, OneSignal
- In-app subscriptionsIn-app SubscriptionsAdapty, Qonversion, RevenueCat
- Team inboxesBusiness EmailFastmail, Google Workspace, Zoho Mail
- NewsletterNewslettersButtondown, Kit
Guides
All guides- Adding AI to your app: models, free tiers and gatewaysWhat AI model calls cost per month, which free tiers publish their limits, which use your data, and when an AI gateway is worth adding. · 6 min read
- Background jobs and queues for small appsInngest, Trigger.dev, Upstash QStash and Amazon SQS. How each one counts a job, where the free tiers stop, and what 10,000 users cost. · 4 min read
- The cheapest way to host a websiteFree static hosting on Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel and AWS Amplify, plus what a .com really costs to keep at four registrars. · 5 min read
- CI minutes and serverless functionsFree CI minutes on GitHub Actions, GitLab and CircleCI, and what AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers and Google Cloud Run charge to run your code. · 5 min read
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