Where the tool lives

Try it on CloudyBot (same domain): cloudybot.ai/tools/ai-cost-calculator — first-party copy of the calculator with the full marketing shell, sitemap, and CTAs.

Repository (MIT source): github.com/CloudAxisAi/ai-cost-calculator

GitHub Pages mirror (optional): cloudaxisai.github.io/ai-cost-calculator

Everything runs in the browser: model pickers, optional blend and side-by-side columns, embeddings and rough image add-ons, an optional third-party browser host illustration (public list prices only), sensitivity bands, inverse "max dollars → messages" mode, export to Markdown/CSV/JSON, shareable links, and a short glossary. Numbers trace to vendor pricing pages and our public pricing page — not internal spreadsheets.

Why we still write about hard caps

Retail API pricing is honest about marginal cost. It is also easy to underestimate stack total cost when you add browser time, retries, and premium model multipliers. Hard-capped products trade infinite upside for predictable monthly integers. Neither model is "free" — they optimize for different anxieties.

If you want the philosophy first, read what hard billing caps mean and hard caps vs pay-per-use. The calculator is just arithmetic with citations — those posts are the "why we built billing this way" story.

CloudyBot in one honest paragraph

CloudyBot is a hosted assistant with a real cloud browser, file workspace, and published AI Task and browser session allowances per plan. The calculator only compares to what we publish on cloudybot.ai/pricing — if your workload needs more than the top published tier, you are in custom-contract territory like any vendor.

Further reading

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