Monthly Cost Estimator

Projected infrastructure costs at different user scales.

Est. Monthly Cost
$209
Est. Revenue (30% conv.)
$6,000
Est. Margin
+$5,791
Service Breakdown — 1,000 Users
🖥️Hosting (Base44)
$49/mo
Base44 platform tier — scales with traffic and function calls.
🗄️Database
Free
Included in Base44 at small scale. Postgres/Supabase at 10K+.
🤖AI Usage (GPT-4o)
$85/mo
Based on avg 3 AI calls/user (interview, match report, meeting prep). $0.005/call avg.
📱SMS (Twilio)
$40/mo
$0.05/SMS. Est. 1 OTP + 1 notification/user/month.
📧Email (SendGrid)
$15/mo
Free to 100/day. $0.001/email above. Welcome, match, notifications.
📹Video Calls (Daily.co)
$20/mo
$0.001/min/participant. Est. 20 min avg family meeting per active user.
📁File Storage (Cloudinary)
Free
Free tier covers ~25GB. Profile photos, PDFs, selfies.
🔍Security (Sentry)
Free
Free tier for small usage. Error and performance monitoring.
Total Monthly$209/mo
Note: Revenue estimate assumes 30% conversion to paid membership ($20 one-time) plus basic wallet usage. Actual LTV is higher with communication credits. AI costs assume ~3 LLM calls/user/month.