Read-only by default · No surprises
Cost Doctor walks every project, environment and service in your cloud-app accounts, attributes spend, and produces a safe, prioritised fix plan — with confidence and risk labelled on every line. No write access. No surprises.
Hosted dashboard with multi-platform audits coming soon.
COST DOCTOR — Cross-platform audit
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Scanning: Railway (71 services) · Render (5 services) · Vercel (44 projects) · Netlify (12 sites)
Estimated monthly cost (all platforms): $89.51/mo
Railway: $62.51/mo (71 services)
Render: $7.00/mo (5 services)
Vercel: $20.00/mo (Pro plan, 1 seat)
Cost confidence: medium
Largest driver: RAM ($71.84)
Estimated saving from single-platform fixes: $18.98/mo
Cross-platform (Pro): 3 opportunities worth ~$26.00/mo
1. Move "4schools" to Vercel — save $16.37/mo [fits in allowance]
2. Move "llmco-chatbot-backend" — save $7.00/mo [fits in allowance]
3. Stop idle "berta-pai-backend" — save $5.31/mo [no deploy in 66d]
Markdown report: reports/cost-audit-all.md
Plain English: reports/cost-walkthrough-all.md
JSON report: reports/cost-audit-all.jsonModern PaaS pricing is usage-based and opaque. By the time the invoice arrives, the decision that caused it is six weeks old. Cost Doctor names the four drifts that cause ~80% of avoidable spend.
The single biggest source of surprise bills. Every GB of memory you reserve costs ~$10/month on Railway whether your app touches it or not.
Egress is metered. A blog hero image, a Streamlit dashboard, or a PDF export proxy can quietly burn $20–$80/month on a small app.
Branch previews and PR environments often run 24/7 long after the PR merged. Cost Doctor finds them and tells you which to stop.
Logs, caches, user uploads. Every gigabyte costs $0.15/month and grows silently. We list which volumes are growing and what to do about it.
We’re a recommender, not an automator. The CLI never mutates your account; the hosted dashboard launches with the same safety guarantee.
Paste a Railway / Render / Vercel / Netlify API token. We never receive write scope; we never store unencrypted tokens.
Cost Doctor enumerates projects, environments, services and volumes. Where the platform exposes usage metrics, we compute a usage-based cost; where it doesn’t, we say so explicitly.
Each finding has a confidence score, a risk label, an estimated saving, and step-by-step instructions. Databases and production are flagged DO_NOT_TOUCH unless you opt in.
Cost Doctor speaks governance language: waste, drift, resource leakage, fix plan, audit evidence. No BI charts you have to interpret.
Simulate every service on every other supported cloud — Railway, Render, Vercel, Netlify — respecting team-level included allowances. Find the cheapest platform per workload, with migration checklists and risk ratings.
High RAM / low CPU, network-heavy public services, old inactive services, preview / staging leakage, database review, agent usage, volume creep.
Cost lines carry a confidence label (high / medium / low). Recommendations carry a risk (LOW / MEDIUM / HIGH / DO_NOT_TOUCH). No 'just trust the chart'.
For network-heavy services we generate a tailored migration plan: bucket name, CDN domain, sync command, rollout checklist.
Every audit ships with a walkthrough: glossary, 30-minute action list, step-by-step narrative for non-technical readers.
Ships with adapters for Railway, Render, Vercel, and Netlify. One audit engine, same report shape, unified cost model.
Case study #1 · Bandwidth offload
Cost Doctor ran against a live Railway account and found 96% of one service’s bill was outbound bandwidth — ~313 GB/month at $0.05/GB. We moved static and media bytes to Cloudflare R2 + CDN and Railway kept HTML, APIs, and tiny redirects.
Case study #2 · Cross-platform analysis
Same team, four clouds (Railway, Render, Vercel, Netlify). The cross-platform simulator found that 4schools costs $16.37/mo on Railway but $0 extra on Vercel (fits in the Pro allowance). Combined with stopping idle services: ~$26/mo saved on a $89/mo portfolio.
Pro feature · Cross-platform analysis
Cost Doctor simulates every service on every other supported cloud — Railway, Render, and Vercel — respecting each platform’s included allowances. The result: a per-service comparison table showing exactly where you’re overpaying.
CLI output
One command scans all your clouds
Comparison report
Per-service, per-platform savings table
Migration checklist
Step-by-step, with rollback plan
From a live 4-cloud portfolio: 71 Railway services + 5 Render services + 44 Vercel projects. Service names are real — the savings are real.
| Service | Current cloud | Now | Best target | Simulated | Saving | Portability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4schools | Railway | $16.37 | Vercel | $0.00 | $16.37/mo | easy |
| llmco-chatbot-backend | Render | $7.00 | Vercel | $0.00 | $7.00/mo | easy |
| berta-pai-backend | Railway | $5.31 | — (idle 66d) | $0.00 | $5.31/mo | n/a |
| LibraryFront | Railway | $2.90 | Render | $2.52 | $0.38/mo | easy |
| stellar-reverence | Railway | $1.03 | — (staging) | $0.00 | $0.72/mo | n/a |
Combined potential saving: ~$29.78/mo(~$357.36/yr)
Numbers from a real audit. Savings scale linearly — at 10× this portfolio size, the same moves save ~$300/mo (~$3,600/yr).
Available in Pro (£15/mo). The CLI is free for single-platform audits.
The CLI stays free, forever. The hosted tiers add automation, history and governance.
For indie SaaS founders, AI app builders, freelancers and agencies.
Multi-workspace, multi-user. For agencies and scale-ups.
Board-grade FinOps governance for VC-backed startups & regulated industries.
All plans include multi-platform audits (Railway, Render, Vercel, Netlify). Governance adds board-grade evidence and compliance workflows.
Don’t want to run the tool yourself? We analyse your cloud spend, find the savings, and implement the changes — so you don’t have to.
We connect to your Railway, Render, Vercel, and Netlify accounts (read-only), run the full cross-platform simulation, and deliver a quantified savings report with a prioritised action plan.
We re-run the analysis every quarter, compare trends, flag new waste, and walk you through findings on a call.
We move your services to the cheapest cloud, handle DNS, env vars, and post-migration monitoring. Every change is made in a feature branch with full version control.
Static sites, frontends, JAMstack apps with no persistent state.
API backends and workers with environment variables, integrations, and custom domains.
Stateful services, databases, or vendor-specific runtime features. Includes data migration plan.
£2,499 – £4,999
End-to-end optimisation of 10–50+ services across all clouds. Includes analysis, migration execution, 30-day post-migration monitoring, and re-audit.
Typical ROI: pays for itself in 2–4 months at mid-size scale. At $900+/mo cloud spend, the annual savings usually exceed 3–5× the service fee.
Request a quoteAll prices exclude VAT. Berta.One operates read-only by default — write access is scoped, opt-in, and documented per engagement. Migration work is done in your repository on feature branches; nothing is pushed without your review and approval.