LLM Hardware & Cost Architect
LLM TOOLS · 2026

Plan inference & fine-tuning — hardware, VRAM and cost.

Compare open-source LLMs across a catalog of hundreds of models; live cloud prices, TCO and per-token cost analysis. No sign-up, free.

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Open-source LLM calculator

Scenarios and numbers

These cards are computed server-side by the same calculator engine; each is editable in the app.

Inference

TTFT, TPOT, tokens/s and VRAM — from 8B to 671B MoE.

Fine-Tuning

GPU hours, VRAM and platform cost for QLoRA, LoRA and full fine-tuning.

Live Cloud Prices

Up-to-date GPU prices from RunPod, Lambda and Modal; on-prem TCO comparison.

How the calculation works

01

VRAM requirements

Weights = parameters × bytes-per-weight (quantization), plus KV cache, activations and runtime overhead.

02

Speed

Time to first token (TTFT) is compute-bound; each following token (TPOT) is memory-bandwidth-bound. Tokens/s per user and total system throughput are computed.

03

Cost

GPU count × hourly price × time; per-1M-token cost and price comparison across cloud providers.

04

On-prem TCO & fine-tuning

Hardware (CAPEX) + electricity/cooling/maintenance (OPEX) and a break-even point vs. cloud. For fine-tuning: method/framework + dataset + GPU hours + platform cost.

Data sources & transparency

Live GPU prices

GPU prices are scraped periodically from RunPod, Lambda and Modal and shown as live cloud rates in the app. There is no sponsorship, partnership or affiliation with these providers — the tool is independent and free.

Models

Models are fetched from the Hugging Face Hub (open-source, top-by-downloads + a Turkish allowlist) on top of a hand-curated catalog; architecture data is verified against HF where possible.

Hardware coverage

Includes Apple Silicon (local devices) and custom GPU/model support; local hardware has no cloud price.

Calculations are estimates; verify before making a purchase decision.

217 open-source models in the catalog
30 GPUs in the catalog

Models are fetched live from the Hugging Face Hub; GPUs cover NVIDIA/AMD/Apple.