Estimates, not invoices
Every figure the cost engine produces is a projection from public provider price tables (with their free allowances) and explicit usage assumptions — always labeled as an estimate. The only real charge on SimDeploy is your subscription plan.
How routing works
The analyzer produces facts about the project (framework, API routes, static share, database, workers). Compatibility rules eliminate architectures that cannot run it (background workers exclude serverless, for example). The router then compares the monthly projection of every remaining architecture across providers and picks the cheapest — that is the default CHEAPEST strategy; BALANCED and PERFORMANCE exist for when performance data justifies paying more.
Seeing the numbers
simdeploy analyze prints the recommended architecture, its monthly projection and the alternatives with their prices. The same breakdown is stored with every deployment and visible in the dashboard, including the reasons for the chosen route.