How Much To Run AI

What is How Much To Run AI?

A calculator that helps you estimate what it costs to run open-weight AI models on your own hardware or rented GPUs. You can compare electricity, staffing, depreciation, and cloud rental costs, then see break-even timing for local deployment versus cloud use. It supports different model types like text, image, video, TTS, and decision models, plus configurable inputs such as power use, runtime, electricity price, and usage level. The tool also shows hardware recommendations, monthly operating cost, upfront deployment cost, and a cloud/self-hosted/hybrid comparison so you can plan an AI setup with real numbers instead of guesses.

Key features

• Estimate electricity costs for owned hardware.
• Compare self-hosted, cloud, and hybrid options.
• Calculate break-even time for local deployments.
• Supports text, image, video, TTS, and decision models.
• Adjust power, runtime, pricing, and usage assumptions.