# Cost breakdown

Source: https://www.fortrabbit.com/platform/cost-breakdown
Created: 2026-03-15
Reviewed: 2026-03-27


| Category                            | Share |
| ----------------------------------- | ----: |
| [Human resources](#human-resources) |   44% |
| [Infrastructure](#infrastructure)   |   33% |
| [Sub processors](#sub-processors)   |   10% |
| [Marketing](#marketing)             |    2% |
| [Donations](#donations)             |    1% |
| Irregular expenses                  |    1% |
| Profit margin                       |    4% |

## Human resources

Our [small team](/us/team) consists of web developers and infrastructure engineers. Each team member needs to be able to wear multiple heads. This is how we spend our time:

| Category                | Share |
| ----------------------- | ----: |
| Maintenance             |   20% |
| Customer support        |   20% |
| Research & development  |   30% |
| Business administration |   20% |
| Marketing               |    5% |
| Creative thinking :)    |    5% |

## Infrastructure

fortrabbit is an abstraction layer on top of AWS. Thus a lot of costs are related to the infrastructure. See [our AWS usage details](/platform/infrastructure) for more.

## Sub processors

Billing, code collaboration, knowledge base, project management, support - an umbrella of different services is used to provide our customers with the service we do. See the [sub processor list](/legal/sub-processors) for more details.

## Marketing

Our marketing budget is small compared to other more marketing driven [hosting providers](/hosting-guide). We currently do:

- Content generation, working with external freelancers
- Partnerships with software vendors

## Donations

- Sponsorships for FOSS
- Project Earth
- Atmosfair

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- [Our AWS usage](/platform/infrastructure)