Internal admin dashboard
Retool-shaped back-office for 50 people — low traffic, still needs Postgres and auth.
Internal tools rarely stress infrastructure: a few hundred daily actives, heavy SSR pages, and one database for records. The interesting comparison is managed PaaS convenience vs a cheap VPS when nobody is watching uptime except your team. We model 200 DAU with DIY-friendly ops appetite.
The sensible way
Cloudflare stack at $0/mo
Run everything on Cloudflare
At 200 DAU · fit score 100/100
Cost curve — top 3 stacks
Total monthly hosting cost at each traffic level (same app profile, different providers).
| DAU | Cloudflare stack | Railway stack | Vercel-first stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $0/mo | $5/mo | $0/mo |
| 1K | $29.25/mo | $16/mo | $11/mo |
| 10K | $367.11/mo | $126/mo | $141/mo |
| 100K | $3774.15/mo | $1239.50/mo | $2345.90/mo |
Service breakdown — Cloudflare stack
- Workers · CloudflareFree$0/mo
- D1 · CloudflarePaid (Workers Paid)$0/mo
These are real prices from our provider knowledge base, computed with the same engine as our stack reports.
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