Built by a member, not by Disney.

Disney Vacation Club point charts are public, but they aren't easy to use. Every night of a stay has a different point cost depending on the resort, room type, view category, season, and day of the week. To price a one-week trip across two resorts, you might open four PDFs, do arithmetic in your head, and then start over when the dates shift.

We got tired of doing the math by hand. So we made Magicost — a small tool that does the cross-referencing for you, and shows the result in dollars instead of just points.

Trey Jackson, a DVC member and software engineer based in the U.S. Hi.

This is a hobby project. There's no team, no investors, no growth-hacking playbook. Pricing covers the hosting costs and a small surplus that'll get spent on the next feature people ask for.

If you want to reach out: hello@usemagicost.com. Real human reads every message.

All point chart data comes from the official PDFs DVC publishes annually. Every chart is verified using the chart's own internal checksum — every cell's weekly value must equal 5 × weekday + 2 × weekend. Cells that don't match get flagged before anything is published.

When Disney updates a chart, we re-key it and re-verify. The chart files in our repo have timestamps so you can see when they were last touched.

Park ticket prices and dining-plan rates are static tables, hand-maintained, and updated when Disney changes them. We don't scrape Disney's pricing systems and we don't pretend the prices are real-time. Anything quoted is an estimate; verify at booking time.

• Not affiliated with Disney, DVC, or any Disney Vacation Club rental broker.
• Not a booking tool. Magicost prices trips — it doesn't check availability or reserve rooms. For that, use the DVC member site.
• Not selling your data. We don't run ad trackers, don't sell email lists, and don't share anything with third parties beyond what's needed to keep the service running (Stripe for payments, Clerk for sign-in, Resend for emails). See the Privacy policy for the details.
• Not a content farm. There's a small blog that exists because writing helps me think, not because of SEO.

Magicost is free to use forever — every resort, every chart, calculator and compare both. The $5/month Magic tier adds:

• Unlimited cloud-saved trips, synced across devices
• Booking-window emails the morning your 11-month (home resort) and 7-month windows open
• The multi-trip annual planner with contract-balance projection
• The best-dates optimizer — pick a date range + trip length, see the cheapest check-in window across the whole range

Cancel anytime from your account page. 7-day free trial on every new subscription.

Next.js 16 on Vercel. Clerk for auth. Neon Postgres via Drizzle ORM. Stripe for subscription billing. Resend for transactional email. Open Source: the PDF parser ships with the app and uses pdfjs-dist with positional text extraction, which is the only way to get reliable data out of Disney's charts.