Capital & Compute

Turn AI claims into decisions.

Pricing pages show inputs. Benchmarks show scores. These tools connect both to the question you actually need answered: what should I use, and what will it really cost?

Find your starting point

What are you trying to find out?

No setup, no account and no guessing which spreadsheet to open.

  1. 01

    Can my machine run it?

    Match a local model to your RAM, GPU or Mac, then compare ownership with cloud and API costs.

    Can I Run This LLM?
  2. 02

    What will this task cost?

    Turn tokens, retries and agent loops into the cost of one finished coding task.

    Cost-Per-Task Calculator
  3. 03

    Which model is better value?

    Put capability and price on the same axis instead of choosing from a leaderboard alone.

    Value Leaderboard
  4. 04

    Subscription or API?

    Find the usage point where a monthly plan becomes cheaper, or quietly stops being one.

    Subscription vs API

Choose your instrument.

Every figure is connected to a dated provider page, dataset or primary source.

01

Decide

Answer a concrete cost or hardware question before you commit money, time or infrastructure.

  1. 01.01Can I Run This LLM?Pick your GPU, Mac, or RAM and see which local models you can run, how fast, and whether owning, renting a cloud GPU, or the API is cheaper.
  2. 01.02Cost-Per-Task CalculatorModel what an AI coding agent really costs per task, not per month, and find the cheapest model for the work.
  3. 01.03Model ComparisonPut two or three models head to head on the same task and see which is genuinely cheaper to finish the work.
  4. 01.04Subscription vs APIShould you pay for Claude Max, Cursor, or Codex, or use the API? Enter your usage and see the break-even.
  5. 01.05PC Build Cost CalculatorWhat a gaming PC actually costs in 2026, combining live GPU and RAM tracker prices with a dated baseline for everything else.
02

Compare

Compare models, benchmarks, agents and providers using the same frame instead of scattered claims.

  1. 02.01Cost Per Task RankingEvery AI model ranked by what one real coding task costs to finish, computed from verified per-token prices, cheapest first.
  2. 02.02Value LeaderboardThe top LLMs ranked two ways: by benchmark score and by value, the coding and intelligence points you buy per dollar.
  3. 02.03Non-China AI ModelsFrontier AI models ranked by value with the Chinese labs excluded, for teams under government, data-residency, or procurement rules that rule them out.
  4. 02.04AI BenchmarksA directory of 116 AI benchmarks across 12 categories: what each measures, who built it, the year, the current top score, and whether it still separates frontier models.
  5. 02.05Free AI ModelsThe AI models you can call at $0 on OpenRouter, Google AI Studio, Groq and more, filtered to the genuinely good ones by independent benchmark.
  6. 02.06Inference ProvidersWhere to run a model: 35 inference providers across five categories, from frontier labs to open-weight hosts, speed specialists and GPU clouds, with representative pricing.
  7. 02.07AI Coding AgentsThe 2026 landscape of coding harnesses: maker, interface, pricing model, and what each is best for.
  8. 02.08Claude Skills & Agent DirectoryA curated, source-linked directory of Claude Skills, community agent skills, MCP servers and prompt libraries, rated by what is actually worth installing.
03

Track

Follow releases, subscription prices, memory markets and forecasts as the underlying data changes.

  1. 03.01Model Release TrackerThe latest and upcoming AI models with release dates and per-token pricing, verified against primary sources.
  2. 03.02Releases by MonthThe month-by-month archive of every AI model release since June 2026, with the price each model launched at, the lab announcement behind every date, and a link to that month full analysis.
  3. 03.03Coding Plan PricingMonthly subscription prices for every major AI coding tool, sorted cheapest first and dated to source.
  4. 03.04Memory Price TrackerWhat a RAM kit costs right now per GB, a buy-or-wait verdict by buyer type, and the DRAM spot market against flat government indices.
  5. 03.05DDR5 Price TrackerDDR5 kit and per-GB prices by capacity, and why the 64GB tier is now better value per gigabyte than 16GB.
  6. 03.06DDR4 Price TrackerDDR4 costs about half as much per GB as DDR5 at retail while its chip spot price sets records. The cheap escape hatch, and why it is closing.
  7. 03.07HBM Price TrackerWhat high bandwidth memory actually costs per gigabit and per GB, and why HBM3E on contract undercuts a consumer DDR5 kit.
  8. 03.08Server RAM Price TrackerLive DDR5 ECC RDIMM street prices per GB and per module, the 3Q26 contract forecast, and the long-term agreements that shield large cloud buyers from it.
  9. 03.09RAM Price ChartEvery published DRAM spot reading since November 2025 charted over time, with the move between each, the index level, and the unobserved winter that holds half the run.
  10. 03.10GPU Price TrackerWhat Nvidia and AMD cards cost against official MSRP, the 2026 kit-price hikes driving the gap, and a buy-or-wait verdict by situation.
  11. 03.11Nvidia GPU Price TrackerEvery RTX 50 model against its official MSRP, from the $1,999 RTX 5090 to the $299 RTX 5060.
  12. 03.12AMD GPU Price TrackerAMD official MSRP increases across the RX 9000 lineup, versus street price by model.
  13. 03.13Why VRAM Costs So MuchWhat a GDDR7 memory module costs, how much of a GPU price is memory, and the VRAM premium isolated in one card pair.
  14. 03.14SSD Price TrackerWhat a terabyte of flash costs by capacity, why the cheapest gigabyte sits in the middle of the range, and the one storage channel whose price has already turned.
  15. 03.15Hosting Price Hike TrackerEvery announced VPS, cloud and dedicated server price increase of 2026, what channel each applies to, and the memory costs driving them.
  16. 03.16Should You Buy RAM Now?A live buy-or-wait check: price your exact kit or module against the tracked range, see whether the quote you were given is fair, and what would flip the answer.
  17. 03.17AI Usage by CountryWhere AI is actually used, by country: usage intensity, adoption rates and IMF readiness, each from a primary source and plotted against national income.
  18. 03.18AI Pricing Keyword TrendsA keyword cloud of 45 AI pricing and model topics from real autocomplete suggestions, sized by frequency signal rather than ad-platform volume.