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1. Web Hosting / App Runtime (Vercel, Netlify, ECS, Shopify hosting if headless) 2. Domain and DNS (Cloudflare Free, Route53 $0.50/zone + $0.40/M queries) 3. SSL/TLS (Let's Encrypt Free, Cloudflare Universal Free) 4. CDN (Cloudflare Free unlimited, BunnyCDN $1/mo + $0.01/GB, CloudFront $0.085/GB) 5. Database - Managed RDBMS for products/orders (Supabase Free 500MB $25/mo Pro 8GB $0.125/GB over, Neon Free 0.5GB $19/mo Pro, RDS db.t3.micro $0.017/hr ~$12.5/mo + $0.115/GB-mo) 6. File/Object Storage for product images (S3 $0.023/GB-mo + $0.09/GB egress, R2 Free 10GB $0.015/GB after zero egress, Cloudinary Free 25 credits $99/mo Pro) 7. Image Optimization (Cloudinary Free 25 credits, Imgix Free 1k images $10/mo Pro 10k images, Cloudflare Images Free 5k images $5/mo 100k images $1/1k after) 8. Auth - Customer accounts (Clerk Free 10k MAU $25/mo Pro + $0.02/MAU over, Auth0 Free 7.5k MAU $35/mo Essentials, Firebase Auth Free 50k MAU) 9. Payment Gateway API (Stripe 2.9% + 30c per txn + 0.5% Billing, PayPal 2.99%+49c, Braintree 2.59%+49c, Adyen interchange + 0.11 + 0.60c) 10. Cart/Checkout Service (Shopify Checkout $0 included with Shopify $39/mo Basic, Stripe Checkout Free 0% + Stripe fees, BigCommerce Checkout $0 included) 11. Inventory Management API (Shopify Inventory Free with Shopify, Fabric Inventory $500/mo, Cin7 $299/mo) 12. Search for products (Algolia Free 10k records 10k searches $1/1k records $0.50/1k searches over, Typesense Free self-hosted $30/mo Cloud 100k docs $0.50/1k docs over, Meilisearch Free self-hosted $30/mo Cloud) 13. Email - Transactional for order confirmations (Resend Free 3k/mo $20/mo 50k $0.0004/email over, SendGrid Free 100/day $19.95/mo 50k, SES $0.10/1k) 14. Email - Marketing for newsletters (Klaviyo Free 250 contacts $20/mo 500 contacts $0.02/contact over, Brevo Free 300 emails/day $25/mo 20k emails, Mailchimp Free 500 contacts $20/mo 1k contacts) 15. SMS Notifications for orders (Twilio $0.0075/SMS, Vonage $0.0055/SMS, OneSignal SMS $0.02/SMS) 16. Tax Calculation API (Stripe Tax 0.5% per txn, TaxJar Free 1000 calcs $19/mo Pro 10k calcs $0.10/calc over, Avalara $50/mo 1000 transactions $0.20/tx over) 17. Shipping & Fulfillment API (Shippo Free 30 labels $10/mo Pro 500 labels $0.05/label over, EasyPost Free 100 labels $0.05/label after, ShipStation $9/mo 50 shipments $0.50/shipment over) 18. Caching - Redis for cart/sessions (Upstash Free 10k cmds/day $0.20/100k cmds over, Redis Cloud Free 30MB $5/mo 250MB, Momento Free 50k req/day $0.20/1M req after) 19. Background Jobs for orders (Inngest Free 100k steps $20/mo 500k steps $0.00004/step over, Trigger.dev Free 10k runs $30/mo 50k runs, SQS Free 1M req $0.40/M after) 20. WAF & DDoS for ecommerce (Cloudflare Pro $20/mo 20 rules Business $200/mo 100 rules Enterprise $5000/mo, AWS WAF $6/mo per rule $1/M req, Bot Management $10/mo Pro) 21. API Gateway + Rate Limiting for storefront API (Kong Free OSS Cloud $250/mo Pro, AWS API Gateway $3.50/M REST $1/M HTTP, Cloudflare API Gateway $20/mo) 22. Webhooks for order events (Svix Free 1000 events $50/mo 10k events $0.0005/event over, Hookdeck Free 100k events $20/mo 1M events $0.02/1k events over, EventBridge $1/M events) 23. Analytics for ecommerce (PostHog Free 1M events $0.000248/event over, Google Analytics Free, Mixpanel Free 100k events $28/mo Growth 1M events) 24. Reviews & UGC (Judge.me Free unlimited $15/mo Pro, Yotpo Free 50 orders/mo $19/mo Pro 100 orders $0.10/order over, Bazaarvoice $500/mo) 25. Fraud Prevention (Sift Free 1000 events $1000/mo Pro 10k events $0.10/event over, Signifyd $0.25/order + 1% of order value, Kount $1000/mo) 26. Secrets Management for API keys (Doppler Free 5 users $10/user/mo Pro, Infisical Free OSS, Vault Free OSS HCP $0.03/hr, AWS Secrets $0.40/secret/mo) 27. CI/CD for ecommerce (GitHub Actions Free 2000 mins $0.008/min Linux $0.08/min macOS over, Vercel CI Free included) 28. Monitoring & Error Tracking (Sentry Free 5k errors Team $26/mo 50k $0.0006/error over, Datadog $15/host/mo $0.10/GB logs) 29. Log Aggregation for orders (Logtail Free 1GB $24/mo 7GB, Better Stack Free 1GB $24/mo 7GB, CloudWatch Logs $0.50/GB ingested) 30. Staging/Preview Envs for storefront (Vercel Previews Free included Hobby $0 Pro $20/seat, Netlify Previews Free included) Options and prices come straight from our research sheets for a professional ecommerce project. Prices are estimates and change often — always confirm on the provider's page before committing. 