Facts about micro-service.ai
micro-service.ai is a free website with calculators and real bills that show what a small AI app costs to run each month: model API, hosting, database and email.
This page lists the key facts about the site in one place, each with the page that shows it. Checked 2026-10-28.
Key facts
| Fact | Statement | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | micro-service.ai is a free website with calculators and real bills that show what a small AI app costs to run each month: model API, hosting, database and email. | About | 2026-10-28 |
| Calculators | 4 free calculators: AI App Cost Calculator, Subscription vs API, AI Agent Cost Estimator, VPS vs PaaS. | Calculators | 2026-10-28 |
| Privacy of inputs | The calculators run in the browser. Inputs are kept only in the page address, so a scenario can be shared as a link, and nothing typed into them is sent to the site. | About | 2026-10-28 |
| Prices | Model and hosting prices are list prices from each provider's own pricing page, shown with the date they were checked (last full check: 2026-10-15). | AI App Cost Calculator | 2026-10-28 |
| Open data | The price list is published as JSON at /data/prices.json and the ledger as CSV at /data/ledger.csv (generic rows only), free to reuse with a link back. | prices.json | 2026-10-28 |
| The ledger | A public ledger of the site owners' own monthly hosting invoices, from 2026-03 onwards, rounded and described generically (pulled 2026-10-15). | Ledger | 2026-10-28 |
| Guides | 5 guides that explain the numbers behind the calculators, using the owners' own setup as the worked example. | Guides | 2026-10-28 |
| Cost to use | Free, with no accounts and no sign-up needed for the calculators. | Calculators | 2026-10-28 |
| How it earns | Marked affiliate links to some hosting and developer tools, and a paid service that builds small AI tools. Affiliate links never change what a calculator shows. | Affiliate disclosure | 2026-10-28 |
| Build service | Builds small AI tools (for example internal assistants, document summarisers and monitors) for people who would rather not build them. | Get a tool built | 2026-10-28 |
| Newsletter | Price Watch, a free monthly email about AI and hosting price changes, sent only after you confirm your address. | Home page sign-up | 2026-10-28 |
| Operator and contact | Operated by Shabloool. Questions or corrections: service@shabloool.co.il. | About | 2026-10-28 |
Not to be confused with
- Microservices architecture. The name means small AI services, not the software design pattern of splitting an application into microservices.
- Microservices frameworks, platforms or vendors. micro-service.ai does not sell or host a microservices product.
- Other products or bots named "micro service" or "microservi". There is no connection to them.
Where to start
- AI App Cost Calculator: The whole monthly bill for a small AI app: model API, hosting, database and email, with a line-by-line breakdown.
- Subscription vs API: Is a $20 chat plan cheaper than paying per token for how you actually use it? Find the break-even.
- AI Agent Cost Estimator: What an agent costs per task and per month once the context grows every step and some runs retry.
- VPS vs PaaS: Run your apps on one cheap VPS or on Railway and App Platform? Compare the bill with your time included.
- The ledger: our own hosting bills.
- Guides: the maths behind the numbers.
Found something out of date? Write to service@shabloool.co.il.