Routiq Labs · the calculator

Price your
whole stack.

Pick a budget, pick one tool per row, and see what the bill comes to.

* Real prices, checked 16 Aug 2026.

Someone is about to pay you. Now it needs a back end, payments, error tracking, and email on your own domain. Vercel Hobby is out, the free tier is non-commercial.

● marks what I’d run at this budget · every press updates the panel

Part 1 · The stack

What runs the product. One tool per job.

$0/mo
Codingrequired
Editorrequired
Databaserequired
Front endrequired
Back endrequired
Paymentsrequired
Error trackingrequired
Analyticsbonus
Product emailbonus
AI tokensfree tiers only under $100
Voice AIfree tiers only under $100
Phone linesfree tiers only under $100
File storagebonus
Authbonus
Background jobsfree tiers only under $100
LLM tracingrequired

Part 2 · The tools

What runs the company around the product. The part every stack video forgets.

$0/mo
Domainrequired
Code hostingrequired
Email + docsrequired
Accountingfree tiers only under $100
Tasksbonus
Support inboxfree tiers only under $100
Keyword DMsfree tiers only under $100
Scraping + leadsfree tiers only under $100
Prospectingfree tiers only under $100
Designbonus
Video + screenfree tiers only under $100
Newsletterfree tiers only under $100

Part 3 · The engine room

The advanced layer: second models, crawlers, generators, data APIs. Only the advanced challenge opens it.

$0/mo
Second modelfree tiers only under $100
Crawlingfree tiers only under $100
AI code reviewfree tiers only under $100
Image + video genfree tiers only under $100
Data APIsfree tiers only under $100
Video CDNfree tiers only under $100
Uptime + statusfree tiers only under $100
Rate limiting + WAFfree tiers only under $100
Contentfree tiers only under $100
$0OF $100

Missing one?

This list is my own bill, so it is blind by construction. It only has what I happen to pay for. Tell me what should be on it.

The next question

Which one, and when.

A price tells you what a tool costs, not whether you need it. So the guides go row by row: when Supabase beats Neon, when the free tier is the right answer, when a paid seat pays for itself.

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Every price is the vendor list price in US dollars, because that is how nearly all of them bill. The few that bill in Australian dollars or euros (Xero, Cliniko, Nookal, Hetzner) are stored as their US equivalent so the totals add up, and say so in their panel. The currency dropdown converts at the day’s mid-market rate, refreshed daily, so treat it as a guide and not as what your card will be charged.

Grades are opinionated on purpose. S needs coverage and headroom, C means you spent the whole budget, over budget never grades. Want no ceiling and no grade? Take the no limit tier and price the stack you already run.