What running a one-person software business costs per month

What my one-person software business costs each month, line by line: hosting, email, analytics, payment fees, domains, software and AI tools.

Everything I run, this site with its 2,000 posts, a newsletter with about 150,000 subscribers, eleven small product sites, the paid courses, costs about $400 to $470 a month in bills, plus a share of every sale for the payment provider.

The infrastructure part is small and I know it to the dollar. Most of the total is two AI subscriptions, Cursor and ChatGPT, at $300 a month together. The rest of the range comes from how many emails go out in a month, plus a few small subscriptions where I list the public price of each tier.

Every price below was checked on the vendor’s own pricing page in September 2026, and the AI plans again in October 2026. Where a line comes from something I already wrote about, I link the post.

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