How much does auto-scaling actually cost?
Auto-scaling infrastructure to handle 50x traffic spikes is expensive — and it does not stop bots or guarantee checkout uptime. Calculate what QueueRoom saves you.
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QueueRoom cost
$1,188/year — Pro plan
Fixed $99/month. No per-visitor fees. Includes bot protection, branded waiting rooms, and launch reports.
How we calculate savings
Infrastructure cost model
Auto-scaling costs are estimated using AWS on-demand pricing for EC2 (c5.xlarge), Application Load Balancer, and RDS (db.r5.large) instances. We assume a 10x scale-up for 4 hours per event, with a 15-minute warm-up period.
Revenue loss from crashes
Each percentage point below 99.9% uptime represents lost checkout completions during peak demand. We model this as: (visitors × admission rate × conversion rate × AOV) × (downtime percentage).
Bot loss prevention
Industry research shows 20-40% of traffic during high-demand events comes from bots. Without verification, these bots consume inventory that real customers would have purchased. We estimate bot prevention at 15% of peak revenue — conservative given real-world data.
Actual savings depend on your infrastructure, traffic patterns, and existing bot mitigation layers. Contact our team for a personalized ROI analysis.