# replit-cost-optimization

## Skill Scaffold

```
replit-cost-optimization/
  SKILL.md
```

## File Descriptions

### 1. SKILL.md

**Purpose:** Optimize Replit costs through tier selection, resource rightsizing, and usage monitoring with alerts.
**Workflow:** FinOps skill - manages platform spending effectively.
**Relates to:** Informed by replit-resource-limits and replit-performance-tuning; supports replit-upgrade-migration decisions.

## Summary

This skill optimizes Replit platform costs. It covers analyzing usage patterns to select the right tier (Free, Core, Teams), rightsizing deployment machine sizes for actual workload, consolidating Repls to reduce Always On costs, setting up usage monitoring and budget alerts, understanding compute unit pricing and optimization, leveraging free tier limits effectively, evaluating Reserved VM vs Autoscale cost tradeoffs, and forecasting costs for growing applications. Effective cost management enables sustainable platform usage.
