Cost-intelligence tools
Compare providers, model usage, media generation, cloud platforms, and subscription plans with calculators that start from real workload assumptions.
Compare
Normalize catalogs, quality signals, and platform prices before choosing a vendor.
Provider Pricing Index
Pick a workload, explore every priced model on an interactive price map, and pin models side by side for comparison.
Cloud Cost Comparator
Compare realistic monthly and yearly costs across Vercel, Railway, Fly.io, Render, Hetzner, and AWS.
Generative Media Leaderboard
Rank image, image-editing, video, and speech models by human-preference arena Elo, the best image generators at a glance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Plan
Turn workload assumptions into API, subscription, cache, and agent run-rate estimates.
AI App Cost Calculator
Project monthly and annual model costs from request volume, average prompt size, output length, and app traffic.
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.
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.
Model Switch Savings Calculator
Compare your current model with a cheaper or faster alternative and see monthly, annual, and per-request savings.
RAG Cost Calculator
Estimate embedding, vector storage, reranking, and generation costs for a document search or support-answering workflow.
Batch vs Realtime Calculator
Split traffic between immediate API calls and discounted batch processing to quantify the latency-for-savings trade.
Fine-Tuning ROI Calculator
Model the training bill, shorter prompts, cheaper serving model, and break-even month for a fine-tuning project.
Image Generation Cost Calculator
Price image workloads from per-image or per-megapixel media model rates, iteration count, and accepted output volume.
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.
AI Startup Runway Calculator
Forecast AI spend over a growth curve and see when product usage consumes a fixed model budget.
Per-User Gross Margin Calculator
Translate per-user AI usage into COGS, gross profit, margin percentage, and minimum sustainable ARPU.
Model Routing Calculator
Route simple requests to a cheap model and hard requests to a premium model, including classifier overhead.
Context Window Cost Calculator
Show what long history, retrieved documents, and large context windows add to per-request and monthly model spend.
Benchmark-Adjusted Value Calculator
Rank capable models by cost per benchmark point for chat, coding, RAG, batch, and vision workloads.
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.
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.
Subscriptions & Seat Plans
Flat-rate and per-seat plans (Claude, Copilot, Codex…) plus self-hosted agent frameworks, filter by what includes coding/agent access.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Track
Watch pricing evidence, confidence, and future spend-monitoring workflows.
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.
SaaS Spend Analyzer
Find unused seats, duplicate tools, and billing changes from a vendor export or accounting CSV.
Token Burn-Rate Tracker
Watch high-volume AI usage patterns and flag cost spikes before the monthly close.
AI Subscription Waste Calculator
Add up ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Perplexity and more, then score overlap and real usage to surface the subscriptions worth cancelling.
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.