Staging Environment Cost Calculator

⚙️ Your staging environment setup

Number of staging/dev environments

Each service counts separately (API, frontend, worker = 3)

Cloud provider

Environment size

Actual idle time

86%

Dev environments are typically idle 80–94% of the time (nights, weekends, gaps between PRs)

Hours running per day

24h

Most staging environments run 24/7 even when nobody is working

Days running per month

30d

30 = always on; 22 = weekdays only

📊 Your staging environment costs

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per environment / month

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total monthly cost

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annual spend

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annual cost while idle

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potential annual savings

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months to break even at $29/mo

Active (used)

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Idle (wasted)

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With hibernation

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📋 Annual cost comparison

Approach	Annual cost	vs. always-on
CURRENT Always on (24/7)	—	baseline
MANUAL Business hours only (Mon-Fri 9am-6pm)	—	—
AUTO Auto-hibernate when idle (IdleDown)	—	—

* Business hours: 9h/day × 22 days/month = 198h/month. Auto-hibernate assumes 70% reduction in uptime (environments sleep immediately when inactive). Pricing based on on-demand rates for AWS EC2 as of September 2026.

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🌐 Same setup, different providers

Provider	Monthly (always-on)	Annual	With hibernation

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