TBX / BURNMETER v1
How much are you burning?
Paste anything you feed an AI. We estimate the tokens, price it across eight models, score the waste, and hand you a leaner version. Everything runs in your browser.
INPUTNOTHING LEAVES YOUR BROWSER
HOW THE ESTIMATE WORKS
- — Tokens are estimated heuristically (~4 chars/token for prose, ~3.3 for code). Typical accuracy: ±15%. Real tokenizers vary by model.
- — Output tokens are assumed from your usage type (e.g. an agent run assumes 6x output per input token). The assumption is always shown.
- — Pricing is a manual snapshot of public list prices (2026-07-10). Cached-input discounts are not applied.
- — The leaner version is heuristic compression: it strips filler, ceremony and duplicates. Review it before use.
WHAT THE BURN SCORE MEASURES
- — Verbosity (35%): social ritual and filler. The model doesn't need “please”. It bills for it anyway.
- — Redundancy (30%): repeated phrases. Saying it twice doesn't make it truer.
- — Bloat (20%): size versus a reasonable baseline for your usage type.
- — Ritual (15%): decorative markdown, separators, ASCII ceremony.
- Agent runs get a 1.3x multiplier. Agents amplify everything, including your mistakes.