Free VPS Cost and Capacity Tools for AI App Hosting Planning

Tools

Free tools for escaping messy platform bills.

Small utilities for founders and AI app builders comparing VPS ownership against Vercel, Supabase, analytics, storage, and monitoring bills.

How these tools help

Stop guessing your hosting costs.

Most founders do not realize their $200/month hosting bill could be $20-30/month on a single VPS. The gap hides in per-service markups: Vercel charges per function execution, Supabase charges per database project, Sentry charges per event, and each add-on starts at a "cheap" $15-25/month that silently stacks.

These three tools help you estimate, compare, and verify before migrating. They are free, run entirely in your browser, and do not send your data anywhere. Use them alongside our deployment guides to plan your move from platform-specific hosting to your own infrastructure.

FAQ

Common questions about VPS planning.

How accurate is the cost calculator?

It uses current published pricing from Vercel, Supabase, DigitalOcean, and Hetzner. Actual bills depend on usage patterns, but the calculator is conservative and within 10-15% of real stacked costs for small apps under 10k monthly users.

Can I run different tech stacks on one VPS?

Yes. Docker isolates Node, Python, Go, and Ruby apps on the same box. The capacity estimator uses separate per-stack baselines so you can mix a Next.js app with a FastAPI backend and a Supabase database on one server.

What about scaling when traffic grows?

Start with a 2 GB VPS ($6/month). If traffic exceeds what one box handles, add a second server behind a load balancer. Most small apps never need this until 10k+ daily active users.

Do I need DevOps experience?

Not if you use our deploy service. We provision, wire, smoke-test, and hand over a running server. If you are doing it yourself, our guides walk through each step with exact commands.

Not sure where to start?

Free 15-minute audit. We look at your current setup and tell you exactly what a VPS migration would cost and save.