Accurately forecast the costs of developing unreleased AI models with our predictive costing calculator.
Formula
const hardwareCostMultipliers = { 'Standard': 1, 'High Performance': 2, 'Cutting Edge': 4 }; const computeCostPerHour = inputs.modelSizeInParameters * 0.05 * hardwareCostMultipliers[inputs.hardwareTier] * inputs.infrastructureCostMultiplier; const dataCost = inputs.trainingDataSizeGB * 0.5; const computeCost = computeCostPerHour * inputs.trainingTimeInHours; const laborCost = inputs.engineerSalaryPerHour * inputs.trainingTimeInHours * 2; const totalCost = dataCost + computeCost + laborCost; return { totalCost: totalCost, dataCost: dataCost, computeCost: computeCost, laborCost: laborCost };Model Size (Billions of Parameters)
1
Training Data Size (GB)
100
Hardware Tier
Standard
Engineer Salary (USD/hour)
100
Estimated Training Time (Hours)
1,000
Infrastructure Cost Multiplier
1
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