06. Budget

Estimated Cost Breakdown Table

This table is bound to change based on the technology used on this project. This cost is only an estimation if technology used costs money

Expense Category	Item / Service Description	Commercial Cost (Estimated Monthly / One-Time)	Free Tier / Student Grant Coverage	Estimated Out-of-Pocket Cost
Compute & Orchestration	AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) / AWS EC2 (Canada Central) ~ TBD	~$73.00 / month (EKS Control Plane) + ~$30.00 / month (Node instances)	Covered via GitHub Student Developer Pack ($100 AWS Educate / Azure Credits)	$0.00 (or ~$30/mo if credits exhaust)
Database & Storage	AWS RDS PostgreSQL (AES-256 encrypted) & AWS S3 Bucket Storage ~ TBD	~$25.00 / month	Covered under AWS Free Tier (750 hrs/month micro instance + 5GB S3 for 12 months)	$0.00
AI Models & API Calls	OpenAI API (LLM for specialized agents) & Anthropic Claude (Reconciliation Engine)	~$30.00 / month	OpenAI Developer Free Trial ($5.00) / GitHub Copilot Student Pack	$20.00 - $30.00 / month
Domain & Network Security	Custom Domain (orbit-platform.ca / .app) + Managed SSL/TLS Certificates	~$12.00 / year	Free 1-year .me or .tech domain via Namecheap / GitHub Student Pack + Free SSL (Let's Encrypt / AWS ACM)	$0.00
CI/CD & Developer Tools	GitHub Actions (Automated testing & build pipelines) + LocalStack AWS Emulator	~$15.00 / month	GitHub Pro (Free for Students) + LocalStack Community Edition	$0.00
Authentication & SMS	Auth0 / Supabase Auth + Twilio API (SMS Client Reminders)	~$10.00 / month	Supabase Free Tier (Up to 50,000 MAU) + Twilio Free Trial Credit ($15)	$0.00
Synthetic Data Generation	Mock profile generation library (Faker.js / custom scripts)	$0.00	100% Open Source (MIT License)	$0.00
Total Estimated Out-of-Pocket (Project Lifecycle)	—	~$195.00 / total	—	~$20.00 - $60.00

Expense Tracking Log Template

Use this table to record actual purchases made by team members.

Date	Purchaser	Description	Merchant	Amount (CAD/USD)	Receipt Retained?	Visa Statement Attached?