my tool stack is $310 a month against $1,450 mrr — what do people actually cut

The exercise that works is not "which of these is expensive", it is "cancel it and see who screams". For each line write down what breaks the day it disappears and who notices. Anything where the answer is "nobody, I would find out in a month" goes.

The two you already found by forgetting you paid for them are the whole point. Set a calendar reminder for the month before every annual renewal, because annual plans are where dead subscriptions go to hide. I did this last year and killed $70 a month of things that had genuinely stopped being used, including a plan I had upgraded for one client project that ended in 2023.

The false economy for me was error tracking. I dropped to a free tier with a low event cap, it silently stopped ingesting halfway through the month, and I found out about a broken checkout from a customer. That is the one line I would pay full price for at any revenue.

Cut the design tool and the scheduler, keep everything that touches production. Then stop doing this exercise monthly. At $1,450 the leverage is entirely in the revenue line and you can spend a whole weekend saving $40.

$31 for storage and bandwidth at your revenue means bandwidth, not storage, unless you are hoarding something. Object storage is cheap and egress is where the bill lives. Check what percentage of that line is data leaving, and if it is most of it, look at providers that do not charge for egress at all, plus a cache in front so the same files are not re-served from origin.

Second thing on the same line: find out how much of your egress is bots. I put a rule in front of mine and about a fifth of the traffic pulling files was crawlers and one very determined scraper.

Self-hosting to save money at your size is usually a trap, with one exception: things where the hosted product's value is a nice interface over data you already have. I moved status pages and one internal dashboard onto a box I already pay for and saved a bit. I also tried to self-host the help desk and lost two weekends to email deliverability, which is not a problem I am qualified to have.

One line that is not on your list and should be: payment fees. At your revenue that is likely larger than most of the individual items you are agonising over, and unlike them it grows with you. Worth knowing your effective rate including any cross-border and currency conversion charges rather than the headline percentage, because those add up quietly if you sell internationally.

Watch the analytics line before it tips. Generous free tiers on event-based products are generous right up to the month you get some attention, and then you find out that the pricing is per event and your marketing site was firing events on every scroll. Before you cross the threshold, go and turn off the events nobody has ever queried. Most people are paying to store pageviews on pages they do not look at.