Developer calculators

API pricing, cloud costs, SaaS metrics and freelance rates

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For AI workloads, the LLM token calculator turns words or characters into tokens, the LLM API cost calculator compares monthly spend across providers' APIs, and the LLM VRAM calculator estimates how much GPU memory an open-weight model needs to run on your own hardware. The RAG chunking calculator counts the chunks a corpus splits into, the memory their vector index needs and what embedding them costs, and the vector database cost calculator prices hosting those embeddings. The AI voice, image and video API cost calculator compares speech, image and video generation per 1,000 minutes or generations.

For infrastructure, the cloud egress cost calculator and the bandwidth overage calculator compare what providers charge for data transfer, and the cloud vs. self-hosted calculator sets a cloud bill against running your own servers. The payment gateway fee calculator compares Stripe, PayPal, Paddle and Lemon Squeezy fees on the same sales. Pages built on provider prices show the date those prices were last checked.

For SaaS metrics, there are calculators for LTV, CAC payback, MRR churn and the Rule of 40, and for freelance work, a rate calculator and a software project cost estimator. Everyday utilities round out the set: the subnet calculator, the number base converter, the Unix timestamp converter and the SLA uptime calculator, which turns an uptime target into allowed downtime.