Abstract: A method for providing predictive cost and performance analytics to facilitate benchmarking of an application host is disclosed. The method includes receiving, via a graphical user interface, an input, the input including a request to benchmark a networked environment to host an application; retrieving, from a repository based on the input, a data storage object that corresponds to the application, the data storage object including a deployment artifact and a performance script; simulating, based on the retrieved data storage object, deployment of the application in the networked environment; collecting, from the networked environment, a result of the simulation, the result including a metric that corresponds to the application; and determining, by using a model, predicted implementation information that corresponds to the application based on the result.