SupplyWolf

    Platform Cost Analysis

    Monthly Operating Costs at Scale

    Prepared: April 8, 2026

    Traffic Scenario
    1,000,000
    Monthly Buyer Visitors
    400
    Active Vendors
    Traffic Assumptions
    MetricEstimate
    Monthly Pageviews3-5 million
    AI Search Queries~100,000/month
    Transactional Emails~50,000/month
    Database Queries10-15 million/month
    Outbound Data Transfer500GB - 1TB

    Monthly Cost Breakdown

    Hosting (Replit)
    ItemCost Range
    Reserved VM (4 vCPU / 16GB RAM)$150 - $200
    Data Transfer (500GB - 1TB)$50 - $150
    Production Database Compute$100 - $200
    Database Storage$20 - $50
    Subtotal$320 - $600
    AI Services (OpenAI)
    UsageCost
    100K AI Search Queries @ ~$0.02 each$2,000
    AI Chatbot Interactions$500 - $1,000
    Subtotal$2,500 - $3,000
    Email Service (Resend)
    TierCost
    50,000 emails/month$75 - $100
    News API Services
    ServiceCost
    TheNewsAPI (Pro tier)$99
    NewsAPI.org (Business)$449
    Subtotal$548
    Other Services
    ItemCost
    Domain + DNS$2
    Error Monitoring (Sentry)$26
    FRED API (Economic Data)Free
    EIA API (Energy Data)Free
    Subtotal$28
    Total Monthly Estimate
    ScenarioMonthly Cost
    ConservativeLower AI usage, optimized queries$1,500 - $2,000
    ExpectedNormal usage patterns$3,000 - $4,000
    High UsageHeavy AI feature adoption$5,000 - $6,000
    Cost Optimization Opportunities
    1

    AI Query Caching

    Cache common AI search queries to reduce OpenAI API calls by 30-50%

    Potential savings: $750-1,500/month

    2

    Consolidate News APIs

    Use a single news provider instead of two separate services

    Potential savings: $449/month

    3

    Autoscale During Off-Peak

    Use Replit Autoscale instead of Reserved VM during low-traffic hours

    Potential savings: $50-100/month

    4

    Rate Limiting (Already Implemented)

    Existing rate limits protect against excessive API usage

    Already saving costs

    SupplyWolf Platform Cost Analysis

    Generated: April 8, 2026

    Estimates based on current pricing as of document date. Actual costs may vary.