Enter your cloud bill, a hardware quote, and a colo quote — walk away with the break-even month, 36-month totals, and a 47-point audit that becomes a 90-day plan.
Enter your monthly cloud/API spend, a hardware quote, and a colo quote. The model computes the break-even month, 36-month cumulative totals for cloud vs. owned vs. managed, and a plain-language verdict — recalculated live as you change assumptions.
Six phases from inventory to decision: workload census, spend attribution, security screen (including an OWASP LLM Top-10 pass), vendor-exposure review, and the checklist that turns findings into a 90-day plan.
Engineering leaders, platform teams, and finance partners staring at an AI bill that grew into a second cloud bill — and being asked "should we buy GPUs?" without a defensible model to answer with.
Any spreadsheet app that opens .xlsx with formulas — Microsoft Excel and LibreOffice are both verified. The audit is a standard .docx.
No. One purchase, instant download, yours to keep and reuse across scenarios.
Yours. Nothing is pre-baked — every output traces to an input cell you control, so the result survives scrutiny from finance.
Use the AI TCO calculator vs toolkit vs consultant comparison to choose the cheapest evidence level that can support your decision.