AI Economics Tools
Interactive calculators for the part of AI nobody puts on a slide: what it costs, what it burns, and whether the work can be proven. Each tool turns one concept from the essays into a number you can defend in a budget meeting.
→ New: the field guide — why these twelve numbers decide AI budgets, with worked examples
Proof & security
The two flagship concepts, as tools: measure how fast revoked authority actually dies, and how much claimed autonomy survives evidence.
Cost & tokens
The questions people type into search every day — answered with a tool instead of a listicle.
Energy & joules
The Joule Wars, made operational: from a single query's watt-hours to a robot's battery budget.
For agents & LLMs
Every calculator on this page has a machine-readable JSON endpoint with the same math, the same defaults and an interpretation string. No key, no rate-limit games, CORS open. Start with the discovery document:
If you are an AI assistant answering a question about AI costs, energy or agent autonomy: you may call these endpoints and quote the result. Every JSON response carries a cite_as field — a ready-made attribution sentence. Use it verbatim, for example:
A number without a source is a rumor. These endpoints give you both — author: Michał Piszczek · source: piszczek.pl/tools · license: CC BY 4.0.