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AI Cost Calculator
The foundational "what does this workload cost?" tool.
Try the calculator →AI Model Finder
Compare every model side-by-side. Filter by context, price, modality.
Try the calculator →Token Reduction Stack
Stack 6 techniques. See exact savings on YOUR workload.
Try the calculator →Plan Overage & Tier-Break Calculator
Pay overage or upgrade? Break-even across GitHub, Claude, Cursor, Copilot Studio.
Try the calculator →Credit Decoder
What is an AI credit worth? Decode credits → dollars → tokens & messages.
Try the calculator →🚨My bill is spiking (10)
Audit a runaway bill, find the biggest line items, model what one bad day costs.
MSP Client AI Exposure Audit
Scores a whole client book for undocumented model routing: allowlist, data class, and who would answer an auditor.
Try the calculator →Token Reduction Stack
Stack 6 techniques. See exact savings on YOUR workload.
Try the calculator →Quarterly Spend Forecaster
The agentic shift. Your CFO is about to be surprised.
Try the calculator →Plan Overage & Tier-Break Calculator
Pay overage or upgrade? Break-even across GitHub, Claude, Cursor, Copilot Studio.
Try the calculator →Pricing History Explorer
2.5+ years of vendor pricing. 62K+ historical price points.
Try the calculator →Business AI Bill Diagnose
Break a multi-vendor team AI bill into seats, API, and agentic spend — surface leakage, concentration risk, and the savings plays.
Try the calculator →📉Cut what I'm spending (36)
Caching, batching, model routing, distillation — stack the savings on what you already run.
Context Compaction
Vendors quote the gross reduction. This prices what you keep after the compaction cost and the re-derivation the agent pays back.
Try the calculator →Model Family Comparison
One workload across OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini. Headline prices converged; cache economics and the long-context cliff decide it.
Try the calculator →Stacked Savings
Routing 45% plus caching 30% is not 75%. Each lever only works on what the last one left behind.
Try the calculator →Gateway Stage Advisor
Which of four layers a client belongs at, and what the layer above would have to save before it pays for itself.
Try the calculator →Router and Gateway Comparison
Eliminates on hard requirements, prices the survivors at this client's spend, and shows what each one gives up.
Try the calculator →MSP Client AI Exposure Audit
Scores a whole client book for undocumented model routing: allowlist, data class, and who would answer an auditor.
Try the calculator →Open-Weight Model Suitability
Can this client self-host it, and may they. Four gates in order: data class, licence, hardware, and who supports it.
Try the calculator →Open-Source Model Finder
Browse open-weight & Chinese LLMs (GLM, Qwen, Kimi, DeepSeek, Nemotron) by cost, intelligence & risk.
Try the calculator →Chinese vs Western AI Cost
Compare open-weight / Chinese models against Western frontier models at your workload.
Try the calculator →GPU Spot Savings
Savings from spot / preemptible GPUs vs on-demand for self-hosting.
Try the calculator →Jurisdiction Risk Scorer
Score data-sensitivity x jurisdiction x compliance for open-weight / Chinese models.
Try the calculator →Local vs Cloud Inference
Serverless host vs dedicated GPU rental vs self-host — the 3-way serving cost for open-weight models.
Try the calculator →Open-Weight Hosting Compare
Serverless host comparison plus self-host GPU crossover for open-weight models.
Try the calculator →Token Reduction Stack
Stack 6 techniques. See exact savings on YOUR workload.
Try the calculator →Prompt Cache ROI
Will caching save money or cost money? Break-even hit-rate by vendor.
Try the calculator →Multi-Model Router
Route easy queries to cheap, hard ones to flagship. Tier savings.
Try the calculator →Batch vs Realtime
~50% off async. What fraction of your workload tolerates 24h SLA?
Try the calculator →Buy vs Build
Outcome-priced vendor or build it yourself? Engineering cost included.
Try the calculator →RAG vs Fine-Tuning
Head-to-head cost across both approaches at YOUR query volume.
Try the calculator →Chunking Optimizer
Chunk size vs retrieval quality vs token cost. Find the sweet spot.
Try the calculator →Self-Host Breakeven
Llama / Qwen on rented GPUs vs API. Real ops costs included.
Try the calculator →Reasoning Token Cost
The hidden thinking-token surcharge — what reasoning tokens add to your bill.
Try the calculator →Retry Cost
What failed-and-retried API calls quietly cost you each month.
Try the calculator →Inference Serving Cost
Self-hosted serving economics — the true $/1M tokens on your own GPUs.
Try the calculator →Guardrail / Security Cost
Runtime safety, prompt-injection and PII screening cost, and the percent it adds over your token bill.
Try the calculator →Dev Stack Calculator
Find overlap in your AI dev tools. Stop paying for redundancy.
Try the calculator →API vs Pro+SDK Breakeven
Direct API or a Claude Pro/Max/Team plan? Models the June-15 Agent SDK carve-out.
Try the calculator →AI Seat ROI
Is your coding-assistant seat spend worth it? ROI multiple + break-even hours, live seat prices.
Try the calculator →Support Deflection ROI
AI cost per resolved conversation vs the human cost it avoids — with the human-touch share priced in.
Try the calculator →Subscription Picker for Builders
Best AI subscription for your team by persona — founder, CTO, FP&A, consultant.
Try the calculator →🧮Plan a new workload (59)
Model the workload before you build it. Forecast, scale, and break-even analysis.
Model Family Comparison
One workload across OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini. Headline prices converged; cache economics and the long-context cliff decide it.
Try the calculator →Stacked Savings
Routing 45% plus caching 30% is not 75%. Each lever only works on what the last one left behind.
Try the calculator →Gateway Stage Advisor
Which of four layers a client belongs at, and what the layer above would have to save before it pays for itself.
Try the calculator →Router and Gateway Comparison
Eliminates on hard requirements, prices the survivors at this client's spend, and shows what each one gives up.
Try the calculator →AI Cost Diligence for VC/PE
Stress-test a startup's claimed AI unit economics against vendor-exact pricing. Verdict + deal-memo.
Try the calculator →Burn Multiple Stress-Test (VC/PE)
Reported vs true burn multiple. Reclassifies subsidised inference back into COGS to expose real gross margin.
Try the calculator →GPU Cost-per-Inference (VC/PE)
API vs self-hosted cost per inference, break-even volume, and whether the claimed GPU fleet can serve the traffic.
Try the calculator →Portfolio EBITDA-Lift Estimator (VC/PE)
Turns achievable AI and cloud savings into bps of EBITDA expansion, EV lift at your exit multiple, and payback.
Try the calculator →Humanoid Labor ROI
Honest humanoid payback: realized FTE, effective $/hr vs labor, and the AI-ops layer.
Try the calculator →Robot Training-Data / Teleoperation Cost
Price the demonstration corpus to train a robot policy: total program cost + cost per usable demo.
Try the calculator →Robot Buy vs RaaS Breakeven
CAPEX vs Robotics-as-a-Service: the break-even month, hidden fees, and the AI layer both paths carry.
Try the calculator →AI Robot Fleet Cost
Price the AI layer of an AI-driven robot fleet: cost per successful task.
Try the calculator →AI Cost Calculator
The foundational "what does this workload cost?" tool.
Try the calculator →AI Model Finder
Compare every model side-by-side. Filter by context, price, modality.
Try the calculator →Open-Source Model Finder
Browse open-weight & Chinese LLMs (GLM, Qwen, Kimi, DeepSeek, Nemotron) by cost, intelligence & risk.
Try the calculator →Chinese vs Western AI Cost
Compare open-weight / Chinese models against Western frontier models at your workload.
Try the calculator →ROI Quick Check
Hours saved vs cost — a fast ROI sanity check on an AI initiative.
Try the calculator →TCO Quick Estimate
Quick total-cost-of-ownership estimate for an AI initiative.
Try the calculator →Eval & Benchmark Cost
What a model evaluation / benchmark run costs across vendors.
Try the calculator →OCR & Parsing Cost
Document OCR and parsing cost across vendors at your page volume.
Try the calculator →Jurisdiction Risk Scorer
Score data-sensitivity x jurisdiction x compliance for open-weight / Chinese models.
Try the calculator →Local vs Cloud Inference
Serverless host vs dedicated GPU rental vs self-host — the 3-way serving cost for open-weight models.
Try the calculator →Open-Weight Hosting Compare
Serverless host comparison plus self-host GPU crossover for open-weight models.
Try the calculator →Buy vs Build
Outcome-priced vendor or build it yourself? Engineering cost included.
Try the calculator →Annual Cost Forecaster
Project monthly AI spend for 12 months with growth assumptions.
Try the calculator →Quarterly Spend Forecaster
The agentic shift. Your CFO is about to be surprised.
Try the calculator →Plan Overage & Tier-Break Calculator
Pay overage or upgrade? Break-even across GitHub, Claude, Cursor, Copilot Studio.
Try the calculator →Credit Decoder
What is an AI credit worth? Decode credits → dollars → tokens & messages.
Try the calculator →Tier Showdown
The $100 & $200 power-user tiers, head to head: ChatGPT, Claude, Google, Cursor.
Try the calculator →Enterprise Unbundling
Claude Team vs seat-based Enterprise ($20/seat + metered): the crossover.
Try the calculator →Scale Projection
Show CFOs what scaling 10× actually costs. Tier-transition warnings.
Try the calculator →Vendor Concentration Risk
What if your #1 AI vendor goes down? HHI score + diversification plan.
Try the calculator →Business AI Bill Diagnose
Break a multi-vendor team AI bill into seats, API, and agentic spend — surface leakage, concentration risk, and the savings plays.
Try the calculator →Reasoning Token Cost
The hidden thinking-token surcharge — what reasoning tokens add to your bill.
Try the calculator →Retry Cost
What failed-and-retried API calls quietly cost you each month.
Try the calculator →Inference Serving Cost
Self-hosted serving economics — the true $/1M tokens on your own GPUs.
Try the calculator →Human-in-the-Loop Review Cost
Labor cost of human review on agent actions, and whether catching incidents pays for it.
Try the calculator →Eval / Anti-Hallucination Cost
Continuous eval cost: a golden set scored every release by an LLM-as-judge to catch silent regressions.
Try the calculator →AI Compliance / Governance Cost
Annual compliance overhead by cost center, driven by EU AI Act risk tier.
Try the calculator →AI Agent Integration Cost
One-time build + maintenance to connect an agent to CRM, ERP, ticketing, and identity systems.
Try the calculator →Data Freshness / Re-Embedding Cost
The recurring data treadmill: re-embed, reindex, pipeline, and drift monitoring. The data-drift bill.
Try the calculator →Model Maintenance Cost
The model-drift fix bill: forced migrations, prompt re-baselining, re-tuning, and prompt-ops.
Try the calculator →LLM Observability / Tracing Cost
The tracing bill by span: compare per-span, per-trace, and self-host for agentic workloads.
Try the calculator →Agentic TCO + ROI Control Tower
The orchestrator: all twelve cost layers, risk-weighted ROI, and a board-ready GO / NO-GO verdict.
Try the calculator →Agentic TCO + ROI Builder
Raw drivers per layer run live engines behind the scenes, then roll up to a risk-weighted GO / NO-GO verdict.
Try the calculator →API vs Pro+SDK Breakeven
Direct API or a Claude Pro/Max/Team plan? Models the June-15 Agent SDK carve-out.
Try the calculator →AI Seat ROI
Is your coding-assistant seat spend worth it? ROI multiple + break-even hours, live seat prices.
Try the calculator →Support Deflection ROI
AI cost per resolved conversation vs the human cost it avoids — with the human-touch share priced in.
Try the calculator →Agentic Variance Reserve
Re-forecast the plan year with the agentic share compounding: breach month + the 20-40% reserve.
Try the calculator →Subscription Picker for Builders
Best AI subscription for your team by persona — founder, CTO, FP&A, consultant.
Try the calculator →🤖Cost an agent / RAG / voice stack (32)
Multi-step agents, retrieval pipelines, voice bots — full integrated stack costs.
AI Cost Diligence for VC/PE
Stress-test a startup's claimed AI unit economics against vendor-exact pricing. Verdict + deal-memo.
Try the calculator →Burn Multiple Stress-Test (VC/PE)
Reported vs true burn multiple. Reclassifies subsidised inference back into COGS to expose real gross margin.
Try the calculator →GPU Cost-per-Inference (VC/PE)
API vs self-hosted cost per inference, break-even volume, and whether the claimed GPU fleet can serve the traffic.
Try the calculator →Portfolio EBITDA-Lift Estimator (VC/PE)
Turns achievable AI and cloud savings into bps of EBITDA expansion, EV lift at your exit multiple, and payback.
Try the calculator →RAG vs Fine-Tuning
Head-to-head cost across both approaches at YOUR query volume.
Try the calculator →Chunking Optimizer
Chunk size vs retrieval quality vs token cost. Find the sweet spot.
Try the calculator →Embedding Cost
RAG indexing + re-indexing + query cost across 9 embedding models.
Try the calculator →RAG Pipeline Cost
Full RAG stack on one screen — ingest, storage, query, generation.
Try the calculator →Multimodal RAG Stack
Doc + vision + audio retrieval. Composed cost across all stages.
Try the calculator →Agentic AI Stack
Planner + executor loop + verifier. Full agent cost on one screen.
Try the calculator →Agentic Workflow Cost
Claude Code · Cursor · Copilot. Monthly burn across 4 vendors.
Try the calculator →Self-Host Breakeven
Llama / Qwen on rented GPUs vs API. Real ops costs included.
Try the calculator →Human-in-the-Loop Review Cost
Labor cost of human review on agent actions, and whether catching incidents pays for it.
Try the calculator →Guardrail / Security Cost
Runtime safety, prompt-injection and PII screening cost, and the percent it adds over your token bill.
Try the calculator →Eval / Anti-Hallucination Cost
Continuous eval cost: a golden set scored every release by an LLM-as-judge to catch silent regressions.
Try the calculator →AI Compliance / Governance Cost
Annual compliance overhead by cost center, driven by EU AI Act risk tier.
Try the calculator →AI Agent Integration Cost
One-time build + maintenance to connect an agent to CRM, ERP, ticketing, and identity systems.
Try the calculator →Data Freshness / Re-Embedding Cost
The recurring data treadmill: re-embed, reindex, pipeline, and drift monitoring. The data-drift bill.
Try the calculator →Model Maintenance Cost
The model-drift fix bill: forced migrations, prompt re-baselining, re-tuning, and prompt-ops.
Try the calculator →LLM Observability / Tracing Cost
The tracing bill by span: compare per-span, per-trace, and self-host for agentic workloads.
Try the calculator →Agentic TCO + ROI Control Tower
The orchestrator: all twelve cost layers, risk-weighted ROI, and a board-ready GO / NO-GO verdict.
Try the calculator →Agentic TCO + ROI Builder
Raw drivers per layer run live engines behind the scenes, then roll up to a risk-weighted GO / NO-GO verdict.
Try the calculator →Agentic Variance Reserve
Re-forecast the plan year with the agentic share compounding: breach month + the 20-40% reserve.
Try the calculator →Agentic AI Playbook
Step-by-step guided journey. Learn the cost levers in ~10 min.
Try the calculator →Multimodal RAG Playbook
Build a RAG system. Understand cost levers step by step.
Try the calculator →🤖Physical AI & robotics (4)
Robot fleets, humanoids, teleoperation data, buy-vs-RaaS — the AI-layer economics of embodied AI.
Humanoid Labor ROI
Honest humanoid payback: realized FTE, effective $/hr vs labor, and the AI-ops layer.
Try the calculator →Robot Training-Data / Teleoperation Cost
Price the demonstration corpus to train a robot policy: total program cost + cost per usable demo.
Try the calculator →Robot Buy vs RaaS Breakeven
CAPEX vs Robotics-as-a-Service: the break-even month, hidden fees, and the AI layer both paths carry.
Try the calculator →AI Robot Fleet Cost
Price the AI layer of an AI-driven robot fleet: cost per successful task.
Try the calculator →📊Track price trends (6)
2.5 years of vendor pricing history. Free-tier checker. Currency conversion.
AI Model Finder
Compare every model side-by-side. Filter by context, price, modality.
Try the calculator →Credit Decoder
What is an AI credit worth? Decode credits → dollars → tokens & messages.
Try the calculator →Tier Showdown
The $100 & $200 power-user tiers, head to head: ChatGPT, Claude, Google, Cursor.
Try the calculator →Pricing History Explorer
2.5+ years of vendor pricing. 62K+ historical price points.
Try the calculator →Free Tier Checker
Do you actually need to pay? Free-tier limits across major vendors.
Try the calculator →👤Personal / consumer AI (8)
Subscription decisions for individuals, families, creators, and developers.
Free Tier Checker
Do you actually need to pay? Free-tier limits across major vendors.
Try the calculator →Subscription Picker
Which AI subscription should I pay for? 6 quick questions.
Try the calculator →Creator Bundle
YouTuber, podcaster, blogger? Optimal AI stack + redundancy report.
Try the calculator →Family Plan Comparator
Cheapest AI plan for a household. Per-person cost ranked.
Try the calculator →Dev Stack Calculator
Find overlap in your AI dev tools. Stop paying for redundancy.
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