Technical and business decisions

Make important numbers easier to understand.

Fast calculators with visible formulas, explicit assumptions, and source-backed methodology.

Decision tools by platform

Estimate a workload, understand the cost drivers, then compare practical alternatives.

AWS calculators

Model compute, networking, storage, database, and observability costs.

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Google Cloud calculators

Estimate Google Cloud workloads with regional pricing and clear component totals.

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AI cost calculators

Compare API, agent, RAG, prompt caching, and GPU economics.

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Startup calculators

Model runway, SaaS metrics, customer economics, dilution, and valuation scenarios.

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Career calculators

Compare take-home pay, offers, freelance rates, employment models, and equity compensation.

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How the Platform Helps

Transparent Calculators for Real Decisions

This site is a collection of focused calculators for cloud costs, AI infrastructure, startup economics, and career decisions. Each tool answers one practical question without forcing you through a sales form, account registration, or oversized spreadsheet. Enter the inputs you know, see the modeled result immediately, and inspect the formula and assumptions underneath it. Calculator inputs remain in your browser by default and are not included in analytics events.

Estimate AWS and Google Cloud Costs

Cloud bills combine usage units, regions, service tiers, fixed charges, commitments, and data movement. The AWS cost calculators cover common services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, EKS, NAT Gateway, load balancing, CloudFront, and CloudWatch Logs. Google Cloud tools cover Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, networking, and other core services. Cross-cloud calculators model comparable workloads while clearly stating when AWS and Google Cloud products are not exact equivalents.

Cloud pricing data is tied to official provider sources. Automated sync jobs fetch and normalize supported AWS and Google Cloud pricing data, compare changes with the repository, run formula regression tests, and prepare reviewable updates. Structural SKU changes are held for human review instead of being published blindly. Calculator pages display a pricing verification date, methodology, exclusions, and official source link so you can judge whether an estimate fits your architecture.

Model AI Infrastructure Economics

AI workloads introduce different cost drivers: input tokens, cached tokens, output tokens, repeated agent calls, retrieval and embedding work, and dedicated GPU capacity. The AI calculators help estimate LLM API spend, agent execution cost, RAG workloads, prompt-cache savings, and GPU-versus-API break-even scenarios. Vendor prices come from official OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google documentation. Results separate modeled usage from claims about quality, latency, or provider fit.

Understand Startup and SaaS Metrics

Startup calculators turn operating assumptions into decision-ready numbers. You can estimate cash runway and burn rate, convert MRR to ARR, calculate customer lifetime value and acquisition cost, inspect the LTV:CAC ratio, measure churn, and find a break-even point. Fundraising tools model share dilution and simple post-money SAFE ownership, while the SaaS valuation calculator applies a multiple you choose. These are scenario models rather than fundraising, accounting, investment, or valuation advice, and every page states what the simplified formula leaves out.

Compare Compensation and Career Options

Career decisions rarely fit into a headline salary. The career tools estimate CTC-to-take-home pay using explicit deductions, calculate a salary hike, compare two annual compensation packages, convert hourly pay to annual income, and annualize RSU value. Freelancers can estimate a sustainable billing rate from income targets, business costs, and realistic billable capacity. The contractor-versus-employee calculator keeps compensation economics separate from legal worker classification, and the notice-period tool shows its simple day-count assumptions.

Why the Formula and Sources Stay Visible

A calculator is useful only when you can understand why it produced a number. Calculation logic stays separate from page design, formulas are validated with automated tests, and material cloud currency calculations use integer subunits. Pages are statically generated for fast loading and reliable indexing, while only the small calculator interaction runs in your browser. Results can be shared with versioned URL fragments or embedded without creating duplicate indexable result pages.

Use each estimate as a starting point. Test realistic, conservative, and high-usage scenarios; review the listed exclusions; then compare the result with the provider quote, payroll document, capitalization table, or contract that governs the real decision. If a formula, source, or assumption looks wrong, use the corrections or contact page and include the URL and reproducible inputs. Transparent feedback makes these tools more useful than hidden black-box totals.

Trust the inputs

Transparent by construction

Every released calculator shows its formula, assumptions, region, pricing verification date, and official sources. Estimates stay in your browser unless a feature explicitly says otherwise.