Free tools for teams building with AI
30 calculators, assessments and generators for the business side of AI: cost, ROI, hiring, readiness and what to build first. Every number is sourced, comes from your own inputs, or is marked as our estimate.
Cost and ROI
Automation ROI Calculator
Yearly savings, first-year ROI, break-even and five years of cash flow for one process.
Open toolAutomation Payback Calculator
Months until an automation pays for itself, from volume, minutes saved and build cost.
Open toolBuild vs Buy AI Calculator
Total cost of building against buying, and the month building starts to win.
Open tooln8n vs Zapier vs Make Cost
Monthly cost of the same workload on each platform, priced on every published tier.
Open toolMeeting Cost Calculator
What meetings cost a year, and how much could move to async updates.
Open toolTeam and hiring
Hire, Augment or Outsource
Three staffing models side by side, with BLS salaries and a break-even month.
Open toolAI Team Cost Calculator
An AI team’s cost over 6 to 36 months, hired, augmented or outsourced.
Open toolAI Agent vs Human Cost
The automatable hours of a role against what an AI agent costs to run.
Open toolFDE Pay Explorer
Forward deployed engineer pay from filed wages, reported offers and job posts.
Open toolAI Project Budget Planner
A month-by-month budget for an AI project, with payback and scenarios.
Open toolAssessments
AI Readiness Assessment
Fifteen questions, five pillars, a score and a 90-day plan.
Open toolAI Maturity Quiz
Ten questions to find your AI maturity level from 1 to 5.
Open toolDigital Transformation Scorecard
Twenty questions across strategy, customers, operations, technology and culture.
Open toolAI Governance Check
Whether your AI rules are practised, with a printable gap report.
Open toolWorkflow Automation Audit
Score up to ten workflows and get a ranked automation roadmap.
Open toolFinders and generators
Automation Opportunity Finder
Score your processes by department and find the quick wins.
Open toolAutomation Platform Picker
Zapier, Make, n8n or a custom build, from ten questions.
Open toolAI Use Case Generator
Twenty AI use cases ranked for your company, with a roadmap.
Open toolAI Job Description Generator
A ready-to-post job description for an AI role, with a BLS salary range.
Open toolModels and LLM cost
AI Model Directory
Every major model ranked on sourced benchmark scores, price, context and measured speed, with side-by-side compare and a pricing index.
Open toolFree AI Models
Every genuinely free way to use an AI model, with the real limits, the catch and a copy-paste setup prompt for each.
Open toolAI Cost Diagnostic
Estimate your monthly LLM bill from your workload, then see which of the five cost levers saves the most, applied in order.
Open toolAI Agent Cost Estimator
What one agent run costs, how many single API calls that equals, and which step the tokens disappear into.
Open toolRAG Cost Calculator
Retrieval cost per query and per month, split across embedding, vector storage and generation, versus long context.
Open toolSelf-Host Break-even
The monthly volume where running your own model beats an API, with utilisation, redundancy and engineering time included.
Open toolSmall Model Break-even
The success rate a cheap model needs before routing beats a frontier model on cost per completed task.
Open toolLLM Pricing Comparison
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and DeepSeek ranked by effective monthly cost at your input/output mix, caching and volume, not sticker price.
Open toolAI Unit Economics
Cost per completed task, margin per task and AI cost per customer, with retries and human review priced in.
Open toolPrompt Caching Calculator
See how much prompt caching saves per month and the break-even point, across Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini and DeepSeek.
Open toolToken Counter
Paste any text, see the token count, then what it actually costs per model at your volume. Runs entirely in your browser.
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