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.
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.
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.
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.
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.