Cost-intelligence tools

Compare providers, model usage, media generation, cloud platforms, and subscription plans with calculators that start from real workload assumptions.

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4,993
Models

Compare

Normalize catalogs, quality signals, and platform prices before choosing a vendor.

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DatasetLive

Provider Pricing Index

Pick a workload, explore every priced model on an interactive price map, and pin models side by side for comparison.

4,743 priced modelsOpen
ComparatorLive

Cloud Cost Comparator

Compare realistic monthly and yearly costs across Vercel, Railway, Fly.io, Render, Hetzner, and AWS.

6 platformsOpen
LeaderboardLive

Generative Media Leaderboard

Rank image, image-editing, video, and speech models by human-preference arena Elo, the best image generators at a glance.

Image · video · speechOpen
Media pricingLive

fal.ai Model Pricing

Live per-output prices for popular image, video, and audio models on fal.ai (Flux, Kling, Veo, Seedream, ElevenLabs), billed per image, megapixel, or video-second.

1252 models · per outputOpen
Bare metalLive

Hetzner Server Auction

Track the live Hetzner Serverbörse: hundreds of bare-metal servers by CPU, RAM, NVMe/SSD/HDD, ECC and location, sorted by the best € per GB of RAM.

Live auction · €/moOpen
Break-evenPlanned

GPU vs API Break-even Calculator

Weigh a 4090, 5090, Mac Studio, or rented H100 (hardware, power, throughput, utilization) against API pricing to find the break-even month.

Break-even monthPlanned
CalculatorPlanned

Cloud Egress Bomb Calculator

Estimate the egress bill for serving millions of images or videos: file size, downloads, CDN cache hit rate, region, and provider.

Egress exposurePlanned
Break-evenPlanned

Provisioned vs On-demand AI Calculator

Decide when reserved capacity on Bedrock, Vertex, or OpenAI beats on-demand, from QPS, concurrency, peak-to-sustained ratio, and batch share.

Capacity decisionPlanned

Plan

Turn workload assumptions into API, subscription, cache, and agent run-rate estimates.

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CalculatorLive

AI App Cost Calculator

Project monthly and annual model costs from request volume, average prompt size, output length, and app traffic.

Flagship presetsOpen
CalculatorLive

Prompt Cache Savings

Estimate what prompt caching saves for your workload: read/write tiers, hit rate, and the break-even reuse count, priced from real model rates.

Cache-aware pricingOpen
CalculatorLive

Subscription vs API Calculator

Find the monthly volume where a flat subscription beats pay-as-you-go API, or compare two models head to head, with the crossover plotted.

Sub vs API · model vs modelOpen
CalculatorLive

Model Switch Savings Calculator

Compare your current model with a cheaper or faster alternative and see monthly, annual, and per-request savings.

Before / after model costOpen
CalculatorLive

RAG Cost Calculator

Estimate embedding, vector storage, reranking, and generation costs for a document search or support-answering workflow.

Embeddings + retrieval + LLMOpen
CalculatorLive

Batch vs Realtime Calculator

Split traffic between immediate API calls and discounted batch processing to quantify the latency-for-savings trade.

Batch discount modelingOpen
CalculatorLive

Fine-Tuning ROI Calculator

Model the training bill, shorter prompts, cheaper serving model, and break-even month for a fine-tuning project.

Break-even monthsOpen
Media calculatorLive

Image Generation Cost Calculator

Price image workloads from per-image or per-megapixel media model rates, iteration count, and accepted output volume.

Per accepted assetOpen
CalculatorLive

Speech & Voice AI Cost Calculator

Combine speech-to-text, LLM turns, and text-to-speech into one monthly cost for call centers and voice agents.

STT + LLM + TTSOpen
PlanningLive

AI Startup Runway Calculator

Forecast AI spend over a growth curve and see when product usage consumes a fixed model budget.

12-month usage curveOpen
Unit economicsLive

Per-User Gross Margin Calculator

Translate per-user AI usage into COGS, gross profit, margin percentage, and minimum sustainable ARPU.

AI COGS / userOpen
CalculatorLive

Model Routing Calculator

Route simple requests to a cheap model and hard requests to a premium model, including classifier overhead.

Router savingsOpen
CalculatorLive

Context Window Cost Calculator

Show what long history, retrieved documents, and large context windows add to per-request and monthly model spend.

Context bloat impactOpen
Value rankingLive

Benchmark-Adjusted Value Calculator

Rank capable models by cost per benchmark point for chat, coding, RAG, batch, and vision workloads.

Quality-adjusted priceOpen
CalculatorLive

Scenario Studio

Model real usage (seats, requests, tokens, caching, retries, fallback, gateway fees, tax) into a monthly bill vs a subscription. Save & share by link.

Save · share · compareOpen
SimulatorLive

Agent Cost Simulator

Forecast what one coding-agent run costs across Claude Code, SWE-agent, OpenHands, Cursor & AST-memory: context growth, cache savings, reasoning, per step.

5 harness profilesOpen
PlansLive

Subscriptions & Seat Plans

Flat-rate and per-seat plans (Claude, Copilot, Codex…) plus self-hosted agent frameworks, filter by what includes coding/agent access.

Seats · agentsOpen
CalculatorIn Development

AI SaaS Pricing Survival Calculator

Stress-test a flat plan against power users: token, media, and tool cost plus payment and support fees, to surface the gross margin and the loss threshold.

Margin · loss thresholdIn progress
CalculatorIn Development

Free Tier Cliff Calculator

Find how many users a free startup stack (Vercel, Supabase, Clerk, Resend, Upstash, Cloudflare) supports before the first real invoice lands.

First paid userIn progress
CalculatorPlanned

AI Agent vs Human ROI Calculator

Compare an agent run (API or subscription, plus review and rework time) against a human hourly rate to see whether automating the task actually pays off.

Agent vs humanPlanned
CalculatorPlanned

Vibe Coding Cost Calculator

Estimate what shipping an app with Cursor or Claude Code costs: project size, iteration count, agent trial and error, and context growth across the build.

Build costPlanned
SimulatorComing Soon

AI App Abuse & Bill Shock Simulator

Model the worst case: free users, retry loops, long outputs, and missing rate limits, to see the maximum damage a bot can do to your AI bill in a day.

Max daily damageComing soon
CalculatorComing Soon

Prompt Bloat Tax Calculator

Price the hidden per-request input cost of your system prompt, tool schema, memory, and RAG context, then show the savings from trimming or caching.

Hidden input costComing soon
CalculatorPlanned

Retry Loop Tax Calculator

Turn failure rate, retry count, and fallback model into the invisible cost multiplier that bad JSON parsing and timeouts quietly add to every request.

Cost multiplierPlanned
CalculatorPlanned

Search-Grounded Answer Cost Calculator

Add up LLM tokens, web search and grounding, fetch, rerank, and citations to price a single web-grounded answer down to the cent.

Cost per answerPlanned
CalculatorPlanned

Meeting AI Cost Calculator

Price recording, transcription, diarization, and summaries across your team to find the real monthly cost of an AI notetaker on every call.

Monthly per teamPlanned
CalculatorPlanned

Voice Agent ROI Calculator

Compare per-call STT, LLM, and TTS cost against human support, with an escalation rate, to find the break-even call volume and the quality cliff.

Cost per callPlanned

Track

Watch pricing evidence, confidence, and future spend-monitoring workflows.

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TrackLive

Price Changes & Confidence

Every tracked AI price with a confidence grade and a change history: what moved since the last scan, by how much, and from which source.

Verified evidence ledgerOpen
ResearchPlanned

SaaS Spend Analyzer

Find unused seats, duplicate tools, and billing changes from a vendor export or accounting CSV.

CSV workflowPlanned
MonitoringPlanned

Token Burn-Rate Tracker

Watch high-volume AI usage patterns and flag cost spikes before the monthly close.

Alerting modelPlanned
ResearchIn Development

AI Subscription Waste Calculator

Add up ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Perplexity and more, then score overlap and real usage to surface the subscriptions worth cancelling.

Overlap · waste scoreIn progress
ResearchPlanned

AI Crawler Revenue Calculator

Project what a content site could earn from AI crawlers under a pay-per-crawl model: crawler hits, page value, and price per request.

Potential revenuePlanned

Plan AI and cloud spend before it lands.

Open the pricing index, then use the calculators to model your real workload.

For Engineering

Model costs by token, understand the economics of feature complexity.

For Finance

Budget forecasting and vendor negotiation with live pricing updates.

For Product

Compare models, simulate scenarios, monitor pricing changes in real time.

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Catalog: 137 providers · 4,993 models · updated Jun 1, 2026

Prices via models.dev and custom scrapers · model quality benchmarks via Artificial Analysis

Disclaimer: All information provided is for reference purposes only. Actual costs may vary based on usage patterns and provider terms. Always monitor your own token consumption and billing dashboard to track real expenses.

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