Momentum42 · Cost Calculator

Cloud vs. Own Hardware

Plug in your real numbers — power draw, utilisation, upfront cost. The calculator tells you straight whether the iron pays off, or whether cloud wins before the investment even counts.

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Workload

Token-Bedarf pro TagMio. Token

Cloud (OpenRouter)

Price$ / 1M tokens

Exchange rateUSD → EUR

Own Hardware

Upfront cost€

Throughputtokens / s

Lifetimeyears

Operations

Avg. draw (24/7)Watt

Electricity price€ / kWh

Maintenance & licences€ / year

Verdict

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Cloud / year

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Hardware / year*

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Break-even

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Utilisation

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Total cost over lifetime

Cloud—

Own Hardware—

*Hardware/year = running costs (power + maintenance), excl. depreciation. Assumes the machine runs 24/7 at the specified average draw.
Break-even = upfront cost ÷ annual net saving (cloud − running costs). If saving ≤ 0, it never breaks even.
Example values are assumptions, not guarantees. No slides. No buzzwords. Just results. 42.