IQAAN Tools — Estimator
Cloud Cost Estimator
Estimate your monthly cloud bill — compute, storage, bandwidth, and extras — from users and per-user workload, at public list prices.
Workload
Monthly active users
10k
Compute tier
Base $40/mo + $0.01 per user — heavier workloads cost more per head
Extras — 1 on
Estimated cloud bill
$2,313 – $2,827
Per month · ≈ $30,840 per year
Monthly breakdown
Compute
Small tier — base + $0.01/user
$140
Storage
10.0k GB × $0.023/GB
$230
Bandwidth
20.0k GB × $0.09/GB
$1,800
CDN
Edge delivery — 20.0k GB × $0.02/GB
$400
Total / month
$2,570
Public cloud list prices, 2026 ballpark. Real bills vary with region, reservations, committed-use discounts, and egress agreements — treat this as a planning range, not an invoice.
About this tool
Estimate your monthly cloud bill — compute, storage, bandwidth, and extras — from users and per-user workload, at public list prices.
Cloud bills scale with users, and "it is basically free at our size" is how surprise invoices are born. Start from monthly active users on a log slider from 100 to a million, add per-user storage and bandwidth, pick a compute tier, and toggle the extras real products accumulate — CDN, managed database, media processing, daily backups.
The model uses public cloud list prices as a 2026 ballpark: $0.023/GB storage, $0.09/GB egress, and compute tiers from a $15 serverless floor to heavy dedicated workloads, each scaling per user. The breakdown table shows every line so you can see which assumption is actually driving the total — usually bandwidth — and the headline is a range, because real bills vary with region, reservations, and egress agreements.
Estimates run entirely client-side. Nothing is uploaded, and the numbers you model stay between you and your browser.
Frequently asked questions
Whose prices does this use?
Public list prices from the major clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure), blended into a 2026 ballpark: object storage at $0.023/GB-month, egress at $0.09/GB, and documented per-tier compute rates. Reserved instances, committed-use discounts, and egress deals can cut real bills by 30–60% — the range shown is list, not negotiated.
Why is bandwidth usually the biggest line?
Egress is the cloud’s quietest profit center: media-heavy products can move gigabytes per user per month, and $0.09/GB compounds fast at scale. A CDN moves delivery to the edge at a fraction of origin egress — toggle it on and watch the bandwidth line react.
How do I pick a compute tier?
Serverless suits spiky or light workloads (forms, APIs, cron jobs); Small fits typical web apps; Medium is for constant background work, queues, or search; Large is for heavy processing, video, or ML inference. When in doubt, estimate one tier up — compute is the line most often renegotiated.
Does the estimate include my engineer’s time?
No — this is infrastructure only. Running infrastructure also costs engineering time (patching, monitoring, incidents); the managed database option prices part of that away. For the full picture, pair this with the maintenance calculator.
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