// MONTHLY BUDGET REALITY CHECK
ModernGrindTech
What your stack actually costs per month.
Hosting, database, email, auth, monitoring, AI APIs, storage. Every line item priced from real projects MGT runs right now. Pick your shape, pick your scale, see the real monthly bill before you sign a single dev contract.
// STEP 1 / PROJECT SHAPE
Multi-tenant, auth, Stripe billing, dashboard, real users.
// STEP 2 / SCALE TIER
1k-10k MAU, real paying users, SLA matters on paid tiers.
// SAAS APP / STARTUP
Monthly infrastructure: $100
Annual
$1,200
| Component | Provider | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|
Domain / SSL | Cloudflare Registrar $10-15/yr averaged to ~$1/mo. SSL free via Cloudflare. | $1 | |
Hosting | Vercel Pro $20/mo per seat. Covers most startups up to ~1M requests. | $20 | |
Database | Neon Launch $19/mo: 10 GB storage, branching for preview deploys. | $19 | |
Auth | Better Auth / Clerk Clerk: free to 10k MAU. Better Auth: always free. | $0 | |
Resend $20/mo: 50k emails, custom domains, dedicated IPs optional. | $20 | ||
Analytics | Plausible $9/mo for 10k pageviews. Cookieless, GDPR-compliant, no banner needed. | $9 | |
Monitoring | Sentry $26/mo: errors + traces + session replay (5k sessions). | $26 | |
Storage / CDN | Cloudflare R2 ~$5/mo at 50 GB. R2 pricing: $0.015/GB-month. | $5 | |
Background Jobs | Vercel Cron + Fluid Vercel Cron is included in Pro. Jobs run as Functions. | $0 | |
| Total / month | $100 | ||
Numbers assume the MGT default stack. Swapping providers changes this. For example: Supabase replaces Neon + Auth (often cheaper under 10k MAU, more expensive above). Render replaces Railway for workers. Postmark replaces Resend for email if deliverability matters more than price.
// WHY THIS EXISTS
Every agency hides the monthly bill until after you sign.
The common pattern: sign a $40k build contract, launch, and discover the stack runs $1,400/month because they used enterprise SaaS for every component. AWS for hosting. Auth0 for logins. Segment for analytics. Postmark for transactional email. Heroku for workers. Each line item is $80-300/month. None of it was quoted up front.
This tool shows the stack MGT actually uses and what it costs. Every provider on this list runs something live right now at one of the traffic tiers shown. If you see a number here, it came off a real invoice.
These numbers don't include development, maintenance, or incident response. Just the monthly infrastructure bill. For end-to-end project pricing, run the /estimate wizard or look at /tco for 3-year total cost of ownership.
// WANT A PROJECT-SPECIFIC BUDGET?
Get a line-item monthly budget for your exact project.
Tell us the shape in 20 minutes. You get a written budget with provider choices, scale assumptions, and growth thresholds. No deposit required.
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