Free AI stack calculator
Know what your AI tool stack really costs.
Add the subscriptions, usage fees, setup cost, and maintenance time behind your AI and automation stack. The result gives you a practical first-year cost and the monthly value the stack needs to create to pay for itself.
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Your monthly stack
Enter the tools you already pay for.
Implementation and upkeep
Estimated stack economics
First-year stack cost$0
Monthly software$0
Recurring annual cost$0
Maintenance labor / year$0
Cost per user / month$0
First-year break-even value needed each month$0
Estimated first-year net value$0
How the math works
Price the whole stack, not just the subscriptions.
This calculator separates monthly software spend from the labor required to maintain the stack. The first-year total also includes one-time setup or implementation cost. If you enter an expected annual value, the tool subtracts first-year cost to show a planning estimate of net value.
Monthly softwareAI + automation + CRM + data + usage + otherMaintenance labormaintenance hours per month × loaded hourly cost × 12Recurring annual costmonthly software × 12 + maintenance laborFirst-year stack costrecurring annual cost + one-time setupBreak-even monthly valuefirst-year stack cost ÷ 12
Use the number well
Cost alone does not tell you what to cut.
A tool can be expensive and still earn its place. A cheap tool can still be waste if nobody uses it or it duplicates something else. Review the stack by business outcome, adoption, overlap, maintenance burden, and measurable value created.
1. Identify duplicate tools.2. Separate core software from experiments.3. Include maintenance time in the real cost.4. Keep tools that produce measurable value.