@johnrush: I pay for 116 products, $730k a year. It’s insane Are there cheaper alternatives? 1. HOSTING & CLOUD DigitalOcean - $10…

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A user shares a breakdown of 116 paid products costing $730k per year, listing hosting, AI, dev tools, and other services, asking for cheaper alternatives.

I pay for 116 products, $730k a year. It’s insane Are there cheaper alternatives? 1. HOSTING & CLOUD DigitalOcean - $101.94 AWS - $2,938.64 Hetzner - $1,190.10 Heroku - $25 MonoVM - $10 Google Cloud - $4,125.34 Vercel - $46.29 Supabase - $25 MongoDB Atlas - $3,286.55 Azure - $1,462.31 Fly . io - $22.14 Hostinger - $9.99 Clerk - $25 Docker - $11 Cloudflare - $233.24 2. WEB, DESIGN & DEVELOPER TOOLS Apify - $39 Notion - $91.20 Figma - $258.71 Canva - $15 Excalidraw - $10 BunnyCDN - $10 Twilio - $358.70 SendGrid - $20 Sensorpro - $20 Float UI - $0 Imgix - $500 ScreenshotOne - $79 Uploadcare - $25 ScrapingBee - $99.99 Firecrawl - $599 3tsoftware - $998 Atlassian - $938.72 Cursor - $20 Gamma - $10 JetBrains - $63 Lordicon - $16 Webflow - $26.50 Zapier - $33.11 Zoho - $46.24 3. AI & LLMS Google AI - $3,000 OpenAI - $10,000 Codex - $200 Anthropic - $20,000 Claude Code - $200 Azure OpenAI - $50 Pinecone - $70.05 Exa . ai - $1,000 Groq - $0.53 Higgsfield - $49 OpenRouter - $105.50 Perplexity AI - $552 xAI - $20 4. TESTING & MONITORING Sentry - $232.56 StatusCake - $20 UptimeRobot - $7 Ghost Inspector - $49 LambdaTest - $35 Qase - $90 5. COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION Zoom - $18.75 Loom - $15 Mailjet - $22.45 Skype - $3 Slack - $176.96 Teams - $6 Google Workspace - $151.79 1Password - $21.73 Hubstaff - $700.69 360dialog - $57.39 Cake . com - $335.16 Google One - $26.62 Manychat - $25 StreamYard - $88.99 Typefully - $16 6. MARKETING, SALES & PAYMENTS Gumroad - $100 FirstPromoter - $84.15 Crisp - $400 Intercom - $78 Mailtrap - $15 Stripe - $0.30+ per transaction Paddle - $0.30+ per transaction Ahrefs - $249 DataForSEO - $100 Meta Ads - $25 Google Ads - $50 Mailgun - $27.62 PayPal - $316.85 Seo Gets - $29 Tolt - $3,044.29 TrustMRR - $50 TwitterAPI . io - $20 Vidalytics - $28.50 Webshare - $59.03 Devuap LLC - $19.99 KRAKEN - $ 7. LEGAL, ACCOUNTING, BANKING PandaDoc - $70 QuickBooks - $75 Mercury - $0 Carta - $100 Apple - $99 eSIM . net - $6 Metapay - $0 8. OTHER ProxySell - $50 TLDR - $5 Veed - $108 Grammarly - $12 X - $84 GoDaddy - $69.57 Namecheap - $10 iPostal - $10 Appliku - $10 AWS SES - $0.10+ per 1,000 emails Loops - $49 Google Play - $2.08 Apple Developer Account - $8.25 Black Magic - $5 Zenvoice - $10 Fibery - $10 ChatGPT - $50 Serper - $50 Indie Hackers - $10 Startups .com - $100 9. MY PRODUCTS Unicorn Platform - $19/mo SEObot - $99/mo ListingBott - $99/mo IndexRusher - $199 once AdBot & Tinyadz - $49/mo * the list is made with ai from my last 90 days of bank transactions. may miss yearly payments and include small errors.
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I pay for 116 products, $730k a year. It’s insane

Are there cheaper alternatives?

  1. HOSTING & CLOUD

DigitalOcean - $101.94 AWS - $2,938.64 Hetzner - $1,190.10 Heroku - $25 MonoVM - $10 Google Cloud - $4,125.34 Vercel - $46.29 Supabase - $25 MongoDB Atlas - $3,286.55 Azure - $1,462.31 Fly . io - $22.14 Hostinger - $9.99 Clerk - $25 Docker - $11 Cloudflare - $233.24

  1. WEB, DESIGN & DEVELOPER TOOLS

Apify - $39 Notion - $91.20 Figma - $258.71 Canva - $15 Excalidraw - $10 BunnyCDN - $10 Twilio - $358.70 SendGrid - $20 Sensorpro - $20 Float UI - $0 Imgix - $500 ScreenshotOne - $79 Uploadcare - $25 ScrapingBee - $99.99 Firecrawl - $599 3tsoftware - $998 Atlassian - $938.72 Cursor - $20 Gamma - $10 JetBrains - $63 Lordicon - $16 Webflow - $26.50 Zapier - $33.11 Zoho - $46.24

  1. AI & LLMS

Google AI - $3,000 OpenAI - $10,000 Codex - $200 Anthropic - $20,000 Claude Code - $200 Azure OpenAI - $50 Pinecone - $70.05 Exa . ai - $1,000 Groq - $0.53 Higgsfield - $49 OpenRouter - $105.50 Perplexity AI - $552 xAI - $20

  1. TESTING & MONITORING

Sentry - $232.56 StatusCake - $20 UptimeRobot - $7 Ghost Inspector - $49 LambdaTest - $35 Qase - $90

  1. COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION

Zoom - $18.75 Loom - $15 Mailjet - $22.45 Skype - $3 Slack - $176.96 Teams - $6 Google Workspace - $151.79 1Password - $21.73 Hubstaff - $700.69 360dialog - $57.39 Cake . com - $335.16 Google One - $26.62 Manychat - $25 StreamYard - $88.99 Typefully - $16

  1. MARKETING, SALES & PAYMENTS

Gumroad - $100 FirstPromoter - $84.15 Crisp - $400 Intercom - $78 Mailtrap - $15 Stripe - $0.30+ per transaction Paddle - $0.30+ per transaction Ahrefs - $249 DataForSEO - $100 Meta Ads - $25 Google Ads - $50 Mailgun - $27.62 PayPal - $316.85 Seo Gets - $29 Tolt - $3,044.29 TrustMRR - $50 TwitterAPI . io - $20 Vidalytics - $28.50 Webshare - $59.03 Devuap LLC - $19.99 KRAKEN - $

  1. LEGAL, ACCOUNTING, BANKING

PandaDoc - $70 QuickBooks - $75 Mercury - $0 Carta - $100 Apple - $99 eSIM . net - $6 Metapay - $0

  1. OTHER

ProxySell - $50 TLDR - $5 Veed - $108 Grammarly - $12 X - $84 GoDaddy - $69.57 Namecheap - $10 iPostal - $10 Appliku - $10 AWS SES - $0.10+ per 1,000 emails Loops - $49 Google Play - $2.08 Apple Developer Account - $8.25 Black Magic - $5 Zenvoice - $10 Fibery - $10 ChatGPT - $50 Serper - $50 Indie Hackers - $10 Startups .com - $100

  1. MY PRODUCTS

Unicorn Platform - $19/mo SEObot - $99/mo ListingBott - $99/mo IndexRusher - $199 once AdBot & Tinyadz - $49/mo

  • the list is made with ai from my last 90 days of bank transactions. may miss yearly payments and include small errors.

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