Pre-launch planning
Cost Estimator
Project your monthly hosting and AI usage based on expected traffic. Tweak the inputs to see how your costs and margins change as you scale.
Inputs
Monthly projection
Total requests / month
45,000
AI tokens / month
52,650,000
AI gateway cost
− $1.00 free AI balance
$315.90
Hosting / DB cost
− $25.00 free Cloud balance
$2.25
Gross monthly cost
$318.15
Net cost after free balances
$314.90
Paid users
25
Estimated revenue
$249.75
Projected profit
-$65.15
Assumptions
• AI: ~1.3 tokens/word, blended $0.0060 per 1K tokens, output ~2× input.
• Hosting: $0.05 per 1,000 requests (edge + DB + bandwidth blended).
• Lovable Cloud includes $25/mo free Cloud balance and $1/mo free AI balance (paid plans).
• Estimates are directional — actual costs vary with model choice, caching, and traffic patterns.