Good question. The cost estimate uses two components:

1. Bandwidth: total bytes served to bots divided by 1GB, multiplied by $0.09/GB (AWS/Cloudflare blended average rate)

2. Compute: total bot requests divided by 1 million, multiplied by $0.40 (Vercel/Lambda average per million invocations)

Both rates are configurable assumptions — the real value is seeing the relative breakdown between bots and the order of magnitude of waste. Your actual cost depends on your specific hosting provider.

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len_chapaty 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Got it, makes sense. Worth noting intra-region vs inter-region transfer can differ a lot too. As a blended average for an order-of-magnitude estimate, this is really useful.

	▲	plaintosapp 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Good point — intra vs inter-region transfer costs can vary significantly, especially on AWS. The $0.09 is deliberately conservative as a blended estimate. A future version could let users input their actual hosting provider rates for a more precise number. Adding that to the roadmap. Thank you.

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roysting 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Was that response written and/or auto-replied by AI?

	▲	plaintosapp 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fair question given the context. I used AI tools to help build the product, and I do use AI to help draft responses — but I read, edit, and post every reply myself. Nothing is auto-posted.