Interactive FinOps Tool

Sovereign AI TCO & Unit Economics Calculator

Compare fully loaded private infrastructure with managed inference, then connect cost to utilization, accepted outcomes, and estimated business value. All calculations run in your browser.

Owned infrastructure

GPU countInfrastructure CAPEX$Useful lifemonthsPowered hours / monthhPower per GPUkWPUEFacility energy ÷ IT energy; use 1.0 only if facility overhead is excluded.Energy price$/ kWhMeasured utilization%Facility / hosting$/ month

Platform and operations

Software and support$/ monthStorage and backup$/ monthOperations labourhours / monthLoaded labour rate$/ hourAir-gap import/update operations$/ monthSet to zero for connected environments.Evaluation and observability$/ month

Workload, quality, and value

Requests / monthInput tokens / requestOutput tokens / requestAccepted outcome rate%Use a measured task-success or accepted-answer rate.Value / accepted outcome$

Managed inference comparison

Input price / 1M tokens$Output price / 1M tokens$Managed platform fixed cost$/ month

Monthly comparison

Private TCO

$10,351

Managed

$2,800

Managed is lower by $7,551 per month at this volume.

Unit economics

Private cost / request: $0.041
Managed cost / request: $0.011
Private cost / accepted outcome: $0.05
Managed cost / accepted outcome: $0.014
Private cost / 1M tokens: $19.26
Accepted outcomes / month: 205,000
Estimated outcome value: $82,000
Private value ROI: 692.2%

Capacity signals

Depreciation / month: $3,333
Energy / month: $368
Operations labour: $3,000
Estimated idle capacity cost: $2,476
Managed variable spend: $2,000
Approx. private break-even: 1,156,407 req/mo

This is an architecture estimate, not an accounting statement. Add networking, taxes, financing, redundancy, disaster recovery, security, decommissioning, and organisation-specific shared costs. Compare quality and service levels before treating two model paths as equivalent.

Explore the FinOps operating model

Read the result as a decision signal

A rising AI bill is not automatically waste if accepted outcomes and business value rise faster. Likewise, owned GPUs are not automatically economical when utilization is low. Track the trend for cost per accepted outcome, quality-adjusted goodput, idle capacity, and value—not only aggregate spend.