Ride-sharing backend
Matching drivers to riders — mobile API with location writes and push, not a marketing site.
Uber-like backends are API-first: auth, trip state, geolocation updates, and receipt PDFs in object storage. Mobile clients poll and push constantly, so request volume per DAU runs high even at moderate scale. We model 100k daily actives with a database, file storage for receipts, and no realtime dial (mobile push sits outside hosting).
The sensible way
Heroku-first stack at $1397.32/mo
Heroku compute with best-fit add-ons
At 100K DAU · fit score 90/100
Cost curve — top 3 stacks
Total monthly hosting cost at each traffic level (same app profile, different providers).
| DAU | Heroku-first stack | Render-first stack | Cloudflare-first stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $71.26/mo | $21.46/mo | $14.05/mo |
| 1K | $83.14/mo | $79.94/mo | $120.99/mo |
| 10K | $201.76/mo | $723.96/mo | $1149.95/mo |
| 100K | $1397.32/mo | $7492.72/mo | $11713.63/mo |
Service breakdown — Heroku-first stack
- Dynos · HerokuBasic$14/mo
- Heroku Postgres · HerokuStandard-0$50/mo
- Blobs · NetlifyMetered$1318.32/mo
- Key-Value Store · HerokuPremium-0$15/mo
These are real prices from our provider knowledge base, computed with the same engine as our stack reports.
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