20 simulators
SaaS, AI & Cloud simulators
Churn, acquisition cost and AI bills for subscription products. Every simulator in this category has its own formulas, benchmarks and a full guide.
- AI Wrapper & LLM Token Margin Stress TestSee what model tokens, a generous free tier and retries do to the margin of an AI product, and find the point where every new user costs you money.Open simulator
- SaaS Churn & AI Cost Burn SimulatorFind out how churn, acquisition cost and AI usage bills decide whether a subscription product grows or burns cash.Open simulator
- Cloud Egress Shock Simulator: When Data Transfer Out Eats Your MarginCompute is cheap, but every gigabyte you send out is billed. See how traffic per user, egress price and CDN offload decide whether the monthly cloud bill is a rounding error or a margin killer.Open simulator
- Viral Traffic Server Crash Simulator: What a Traffic Spike Really CostsA viral moment is the best and worst day for a site. See how peak load, capacity, autoscaling and recovery time decide whether the spike makes money or burns it.Open simulator
- Freemium vs Free Trial Simulator: Which Model Actually Pays for ItselfAn unlimited free tier feels generous until you pay for every free user. Compare conversion, support and infrastructure cost of freemium with a time-limited trial.Open simulator
- Serverless vs VPS Breakeven Simulator: Pay-Per-Request or Flat Server PriceServerless is free at small scale and expensive at large scale; a VPS is the opposite, plus your own time. Find the request volume where each one wins.Open simulator
- AI Credit Pricing Simulator: Margin, Breakage and the Cost Behind Each CreditCredits hide the cost of every AI task behind a friendly unit. See how credits per task, price per credit, unused credits and model cost decide whether each task earns or loses money.Open simulator
- Technical Debt Velocity Loss Simulator: What Rework Costs Your Engineering TeamTechnical debt does not show up on an invoice, but it takes a share of every sprint. See how much delivery, money and talent it consumes and when paying it down starts to pay back.Open simulator
- Database and IOPS Scaling Simulator: When Managed Database Cost Outruns Revenue per UserA managed database looks like one line on the bill until load grows. See how instance size, provisioned IOPS, replicas and storage scale against revenue per user.Open simulator
- SLA Breach and Downtime Loss Simulator: What an Outage Costs Beyond the CreditsThe SLA credit is the smallest part of an outage. See how downtime minutes, your promised allowance, credit terms and churn after incidents decide the real monthly cost.Open simulator
- Micro-SaaS Acquisition ROI Simulator: Is That Small Software Business Worth the PriceA purchase multiple is only the start. See how churn, new sales, maintenance hours and your own time decide whether a small SaaS pays back or quietly drains you.Open simulator
- Auth MAU Cost Simulator: Per-User Login Pricing vs Self-Hosted AuthPer-active-user authentication looks cheap at launch. See what bots, SMS codes, lockouts and engineering time add as your user base grows, and when self-hosting starts to win.Open simulator
- Video CDN Cost Simulator: What Streaming Minutes Really Cost Per ViewerEvery minute watched is gigabytes delivered. See how bitrate, watch time and CDN price turn a growing audience into a margin problem, and what to change first.Open simulator
- RAG and Vector Database Cost Simulator: What Each Retrieved Answer Really CostsA retrieval-augmented answer is cheap once and expensive a million times. See how context size, model price, reranking and index size decide whether your AI feature earns its keep.Open simulator
- Open Source vs Enterprise Licence Simulator: Is Self-Hosting Really Cheaper?Free software is not free to run. Compare the per-seat licence you would avoid with the ops time, infrastructure, patching and incident risk you take on instead.Open simulator
- Startup Runway and Burn Simulator: How Many Months Until the Cash Runs OutRevenue growth feels like safety until the hiring plan outruns it. See your monthly result, burn and runway, and which decision buys the most time.Open simulator
- Founder Dilution Simulator: What Your Stake Is Worth After Every RoundEach round, option pool and liquidation preference takes a bite. See your ownership and exit value after dilution, spread across a five-year journey.Open simulator
- API Rate Limit Queue Simulator: What a Third-Party Limit Costs When Traffic PeaksA request limit looks harmless until your busy hour arrives. See queue wait, timeouts, failed jobs and the cost of upgrading before customers feel it.Open simulator
- Production Bug Cost Multiplier Simulator: Why Late Defects Cost So Much MoreThe same bug costs a little in design, more in QA and a great deal in production. See your monthly bug bill and what catching defects earlier would save.Open simulator
- Rule of 40 Valuation Simulator: How Growth and Margin Trade Off in a SaaS MultipleGrowth plus profit margin should reach 40. See how your score moves the revenue multiple, the implied valuation and the value created each month above your cost of capital.Open simulator