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Free Custom Domain Cost Calculator

Estimate what it would cost to ship per-customer custom domains in-house — engineering setup, ongoing maintenance, edge infra — vs. paying for a managed service like Domainee.

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DIY assumptions (click to edit)
DIY (in-house)
$1,450/ month
≈ $47,400 over 12 mo
  • Initial setup$30,000.00 (one-time)
  • Eng. maintenance / mo$1,200.00
  • Infra / mo$250.00
Domainee
$101/ month
≈ $1,212 over 12 mo
  • Domains / mo$96.00
  • Bandwidth / mo$5.00
  • Setup$0
Over 12 months
$46,188.00 cheaper with Domainee
Inputs are estimates — your numbers may differ. The framework: DIY has fixed setup + recurring eng + infra. Managed has variable per-domain + bandwidth.
Pricing reference. Domainee graduated tiers: 1–20: $0.00/domain · 21–1000: $0.20/domain · 1001–2000: $0.19/domain · 2001–3000: $0.18/domain · 3001–4000: $0.17/domain · 4001–5000: $0.16/domain · 5001–6000: $0.15/domain · 6001–7000: $0.14/domain · 7001–8000: $0.13/domain · 8001–9000: $0.12/domain · 9001–10000: $0.11/domain · 10001+: $0.10/domain. Bandwidth: 1–100 GB: $0.00/GB · 101+ GB: $0.05/GB.

How it works

01

Set your scale

Number of customer hostnames you expect, and roughly how much bandwidth each customer pulls per month.

02

Tune the DIY assumptions

Engineering setup, monthly maintenance, hourly rate, and infra cost. Defaults are conservative for a real production-grade build.

03

Read the comparison

Side-by-side monthly + horizon cost. Where the lines cross tells you when build-vs-buy flips.

Frequently asked questions

Are the DIY hours realistic?+

The defaults (200 setup hours, 8 maintenance hours / month, $150/hr) reflect a midsize team that needs to build TLS issuance, edge routing, DNS validation, status reporting, and webhooks. Smaller teams hit much higher numbers; ex-FAANG infra teams hit lower.

What's the actual managed pricing?+

Domainee: first 20 hostnames and 100 GB / month free. Then $0.20/domain/month graduated down to $0.10 at scale, and $0.05/GB above 100 GB. No setup, no contract.

Does this include cert costs?+

Yes — managed pricing includes TLS issuance and renewal. The DIY 'infra' line covers the typical mix of an NLB/ALB, an ACM-style cert pipeline, and monitoring.

What if I already have an edge?+

Then DIY is much cheaper than the default. Drop 'Monthly infra' and most of the setup hours — and the calculator updates immediately.

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