A 2026 AI-native company stack costs about $1,880 a month
aryanXmahajan · x · 2026-07-28
A tech-stack breakdown for running a fully AI-native company in 2026, with monthly costs for each layer:
- LLM/brain: Claude Max, ChatGPT Pro, Kimi K3 CLI, Anthropic API, OpenRouter, Perplexity, Cursor
- Automation/connectors: Airtable, Apify, Firecrawl, Fireflies, Manychat
- Outbound/lead gen: Apollo, Sales Navigator, HeyReach, Smartlead
- Creative/media: Fal.ai, ElevenLabs, Higgsfield, Canva
- Data warehousing: Render Postgres, Redis, Cloudflare R2
- Cloud hosting: Render, AWS EC2, Vercel, Cloudflare
- Finance/ops: Google Workspace, Mercury, Linear, Notion
The author estimates the full stack at about $1,880/month and argues that everything else is noise.
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