We make technology spend easier to reason about.
AI inference, cloud usage, and developer SaaS have become material operating costs — while pricing pages still hide the practical unit economics. ByteCosts closes that gap.
What we build
Free calculators, a normalized provider pricing index, and research notes for teams that need to understand cost before committing to a vendor or workload.
The focus is concrete billing behavior: token pricing, context growth, subscription limits, seat plans, platform defaults, and the overages that appear after a product scales.
ByteCosts is an independent project. We are not affiliated with the vendors or platforms we analyze.
Numbers before narratives
We model the billing unit, the limit, and the likely overage path before summarizing any vendor claim.
Sources stay visible
Pricing indexes keep provider links and extraction evidence attached so figures can be audited later.
Practical over theoretical
Tools are shaped around real workflows: coding sessions, SaaS workloads, seat plans, and scale-up surprises.