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Monthly cost with real users, what should I expect?

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I have maybe 50 users a day on my Lovable app. Free tiers so far. What should I expect at 500 or 5,000 users? I don't want a surprise bill.

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Read the pricing pages, but I don't know what my usage will look like. The numbers are in requests and GB, I think in users.

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Following, same question for Bolt + Supabase.

tomvibes last week

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jonas_klast week

Rough rule of thumb for a normal CRUD app:

Users/day	Supabase	Vercel	Total
50	free	free	€0
500	Pro €25	Hobby is fine unless commercial → Pro €20	~€45
5,000	Pro €25 + maybe compute add-on	Pro €20	€50–100

The things that actually cause surprise bills: images served through your own app instead of a CDN, and a cron job that runs every minute. Set a spend cap in Supabase and a usage alert in Vercel today, both take two minutes.

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The table is super helpful. What's the commercial bit about Vercel Hobby?

noor_builds last week

Hobby is for non-commercial use per their terms. The moment you charge money you should be on Pro, regardless of traffic.

jonas_k last week

One more surprise line: Supabase egress if you serve images straight from Storage. Look at the usage page once a month, it's where the bill starts.

deploydan last week

cloudkatlast week

The table is right for plain CRUD. One thing to add because it's a Lovable app: if any feature calls an AI API (summaries, a chat, "generate a description"), that line will be bigger than Supabase and Vercel together. It scales per use, not per user, and a single enthusiastic user can cost more than a hundred quiet ones.

Put a per-user daily limit on those calls from day one and a hard monthly budget in the provider's dashboard.

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There's a "suggest a title" button that calls OpenAI. Hadn't counted it at all. Adding a limit.

noor_builds last week

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