Indie SaaS
Your typical bootstrapped B2B tool — SSR dashboard, Postgres, 1k users.
Most indie SaaS products land here: a server-rendered app, one database, modest traffic at launch. At 1k daily actives you are choosing between managed PaaS convenience and VPS savings — exactly the tradeoff StackPlan is built to surface.
The sensible way
Railway stack at $28.25/mo
Run everything on Railway
At 1K DAU · fit score 92/100
Cost curve — top 3 stacks
Total monthly hosting cost at each traffic level (same app profile, different providers).
| DAU | Railway stack | AWS (serverless) stack | Cloudflare stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $6.25/mo | $12.68/mo | $0/mo |
| 1K | $28.25/mo | $25.44/mo | $66/mo |
| 10K | $248/mo | $165.84/mo | $735.65/mo |
| 100K | $2460.25/mo | $1571.52/mo | $7508.40/mo |
Service breakdown — Railway stack
- App Service · RailwayHobby$5/mo
- Postgres · RailwayPro$23.25/mo
These are real prices from our provider knowledge base, computed with the same engine as our stack reports.
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