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See what your stack really costs vs. what you pay

Pick a stack and a traffic level, get an itemized receipt comparing provider pricing against raw infrastructure cost — egress markup included.

What does your stack say about you?

Eight questions, one archetype. Find out if you are a Hetzner Monk, a Serverless Maximalist, or a Resume-Driven Developer.

The best stack money can buy — for your budget

Tell us your monthly budget and what you are building. We find the best stack that fits under that number, with real prices.

What can you run for exactly $0?

A survival guide to free tiers: every service in our knowledge base that costs nothing, filtered by what your app actually needs.

Pick the right database type — with real prices

Six questions, honest guidance on SQLite vs Postgres vs KV vs columnar, plus hosted pricing from our knowledge base when we have it.

Functions, a real server, or both — decided honestly

Eight questions on traffic, workload, budget, and ops appetite. Get a verdict — serverless, serverful, or hybrid — with trade-offs and real provider pricing.

Cloudflare, Vercel, Fly, Railway, or a plain VPS?

Six questions on app type, database, traffic, realtime, ops, and budget. Get one platform recommendation with trade-offs and real pricing — not just a name.

Lambda vs Workers vs Vercel vs Netlify, priced honestly

Requests, duration, and memory in — side-by-side monthly costs out, free tiers subtracted, with the crossover points where "basically free" stops being true.

The cheapest box that fits your specs

Pick vCPU, RAM, and storage. Get the cheapest matching plan on Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, and Lightsail — bandwidth fine print included.

The hidden bandwidth tax, quantified

Enter GB served per month and see what AWS, GCP, and Azure charge for egress versus R2, Backblaze B2, and Hetzner — often literally $0 vs hundreds.

Your infrastructure, brutally reviewed

Paste your stack and get a genuinely funny roast grounded in real cost data — plus what you should actually be running.

Do you really need all of that?

Describe your app and list your services. Get a letter grade and a "you don't need that" breakdown.