Savings calculator
What does your hosting really cost?
Add up what you pay the managed clouds every month, then compare it to the boring alternative: one cheap VPS running everything. The math updates as you type.
Your monthly cloud spend
$
Vercel, Railway, Render, Heroku…
$
Supabase, PlanetScale, Neon, managed Postgres…
$
Cron jobs, queues, file storage, monitoring…
3
They all fit on the same VPS — one box, one bill.
What it adds up to
- Cloud, per year
- $540
- VPS path, year 1~€6/mo Hetzner + AODE $49.99 one-time
- $128
- You keep, year 1
- $412
- You keep, over 3 years
- $1,336
- Per project, per year
- $180 cloud → $43 VPS
€6/mo is treated as ≈$6.50/mo so both columns are in USD. All math runs in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere.
When a VPS does not make sense
- —Your stack leans hard on serverless — edge functions, per-request scaling, and managed queues don't translate to a single box.
- —You have serious traffic. One €6 VPS handles a lot, but at real scale the managed platforms earn their bill.
- —You have zero appetite for ops. Even with a panel, you own the server — updates, backups, the occasional reboot.
The longer version: when not to self-host.