I need suggestion please
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I would recommend the Autoscale option if it is your first time. It will scale the size and cost depending on how heavy the traffic is. if it is just you testing then the cost will be fairly low.
Hey Steve, are you using Autoscale today? If it isnāt being used is it still running at the $1/hr minimum rate (what it says as the recommended option)?
If so, are you typically looking at about roughly $450-750 for Replit deployments/month?
Where did you find $1/hr?
In the machine configuration. Hereās a screenshot, itās in the advanced settings (this pops up when Publish is clicked):
Iām not sure how to answer this one. My lightweight autoscale apps cost hardly anything per month to be deployed. If youāre concerned about heavy traffic running up an autoscale deployment, do reserved VM. But if itās a new app w/out a ton of traffic, autoscale is going to be your cheapest route.
What machine configuration are you running?
Typically Autoscale(4 vCPU / 8 GiB RAM / 3 Max)
And even on a site that gets a fair amount of traffic from ads, itās nominal.
What kind of app is it? Iāve never seen that cost per hour before on mine.
I do everything in autoscale and itās been $60-70 total a month across a few dozen published apps. My biggest app is nearly maxed out on specs and is still only like $50 a month and gets 20k visitors a day.
Oh I think that usage number you see is when itās at max capacity for an hour it would cost that much. When itās not at that capacity it would cost less. When itās idle it costs nothing or something close to nothing.
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The way autoscale works is to charge for actual consumption. So $1/hr does not mean it is continually charging you. You only pay if and when the app is being used.
So I have loads of half finished apps that I have published but are not being used by any real users - just by myself when I pop in to have a look and a quick play. Generally these are costing me under $1 each month to have hanging around doing very little.
I would recommend doing some reading up on Autoscale and the overall model - it is by far the best model for new apps until you get an understanding of how much usage they are getting.
Iāve read quite a bit and decided it was the right route, I was just talking to a friend the other day and we were talking about how to build out separate environments so we checked out the āPublishā menu. Wording on the pricing was confusing though, because to me, it read itās ā$1.014/hour/machineā - (1.014 x 24) x 30 = approx $730/month. They should clarify thatās at max capacity per machine, itād make it a lot less startling for a user like myself 
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Yes, Replit are assuming that most readers are familiar with the standard way the entire hosting industry now charges - this is Hosting 101 for those already in the tech game.
Replit should surely know they have a lot of non-tech users where, indeed, ā$1 per hourā seems frightening!!
There are some cloud providers out there that truly just charge you by time and not by usage. I believe there are instances in Runpod like this, so you do have to be careful and ask the right questions.
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Fair point. I had a hosting company back in the old dotcom days, and apart from bandwidth (which cost about a million dollars per megabyte back then!), it was all a flat monthly fee.
Iām out of that game now, but assumed theyād all followed the AWS model and gone down the usage route.
Flat fees again would be nice, as it is a simple model to understand - especially for the growing army of non-tech vibe coders.
Even AWS has instances that bill you per second, used or not.
Always read the fine print! Itās gotten so much smaller over the years, Steve. Get your glasses!
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I hope to get through this lifetime never having hosted anything of my own on AWS 
Iām now down to my last 2 dedicated cloud servers, for some internal stuff. I use an old favourite, Linode/Akamai, and based on usage - probably only spend Ā£50/month.
Iāve officially written my last ever lines of real code. From now on, itās vibe coding and vibe hosting only for me. A long way from writing BASIC on my old Vic 20 and storing it on a cassette tape 
I built an if that helps you decide what deployment option to choose along with the cost estimates https://replit-deployment-cost-calculator.replit.app/