Sunk Cost
sunkcost.ai- Category
- AI Tools
- Rank
- No. 2298Tools index
- Type
- TOOL
- Date
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Sunk Cost is a web calculator that estimates how long a locally purchased machine takes to pay for itself running open AI models, compared against renting the same model through a token-priced API. Users pick a machine, model, and daily token usage, and the tool factors in context window size, electricity cost, and assumed API price declines to compute a break-even timeline, estimating local throughput from memory bandwidth where no measured data exists.
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Sunk Cost lets you plug in a machine, model, and daily token volume to see exactly how long local LLM hardware takes to pay for itself against API pricing, cutting through vague 'just buy a Mac' advice with real numbers.
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