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Monthly Cost Breakdown

Every rupee (and dollar) this site costs to run, with receipts. We publish this because it's the most honest proof that agentic infrastructure scales cheaply.

$17.80
per month, all-in
₹1,484
at ₹83.3 / $1
0
managed databases, PaaS fees

Line Items

ServiceCost/moNotes
GCP e2-small VM (2 vCPU, 2GB RAM)$14.00Runs hub + nginx in Docker Compose
Anthropic API — AI models$1.50~700 classification + reasoning calls/month. Right-sized model per task tier.
GCP Cloud Storage$1.10Audio files (music), weekly SQLite backup
GCP Cloud DNS$0.20news.tuningfolks.com managed zone
Domain (annualised)$1.00tuningfolks.com · ~$12/year ÷ 12
Let's Encrypt SSL$0.00Free — auto-renewed via certbot on VM
SQLite database$0.00File on disk — no managed DB fees
Total$17.80≈ ₹1,484/month

Stack Comparison

TuningFolks (this site)$17.80
Vercel Pro + Supabase Pro~$45–60
AWS (EC2 t3.small + RDS)~$55–80
GCP with Cloud SQL~$35–55

Why It's This Cheap

🗄️
SQLite over Cloud SQL
Saves $10–25/month. At our traffic, SQLite handles 1,000+ concurrent reads without breaking a sweat.
🐳
Docker on one VM
No Kubernetes, no managed clusters. Both apps + Nginx run on a single e2-small. Complexity kills margin.
🤖
Right model, right task
Each agent tier uses the appropriate model size — high-speed for classification, reasoning-grade for strategy. No overspend on underthought tasks.
📦
Zero PaaS tax
No Vercel Pro, no Supabase, no managed queues. Everything is self-hosted on one VM with open tooling.