AI Cost Estimator

AI planning tools

Estimate your AI operating costs

Model token usage, adoption, and organisational optimism to produce a clear monthly estimate with almost no connection to reality.

Parody estimator. This tool provides no financial advice and makes no guarantees beyond eventually choosing fire or money.

Select estimate detail

Choose how accurate you would like us to pretend to be.

Estimate detail

Configure your scenario

Tell us about the initiative and its expected enthusiasm.

6 questions
Additional detail now creates a reassuringly wider range.

Methodology

Rigorous enough to have a methodology section

1. Gather impressive inputs.
Every answer adjusts a fake monthly total using arithmetic that looks reassuring from a distance.

2. Ignore them at the crucial moment.
A fresh, unbiased 50/50 decision chooses either money burning or money being collected.

3. Add false precision.
The result includes cents, confidence language, and absolutely no financial insight.

The joke is also the receipt

How many AI tokens did building this burn?

This page was designed and built with Azure OpenAI GPT-5.6-sol. Rufus did not expose Azure’s prompt, cached, reasoning, or completion counters to this build session, so an exact provider total would be invented. Each major round of work is shown separately instead.

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Deterministic generator
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