Basal - Know what your AI-built project costs before you build it
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Basal estimates the real cost of your AI-built project, broken down by tool. Lovable, Replit, Cursor, Claude, GPT-4o, or traditional dev. Paste your idea, get a cost range, timeline, overage breakdown, and a client-ready share link. In seconds.
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I built Basal because I kept seeing the same problem: developers and agencies quoting projects without accounting for what AI tools actually cost to use.
Most people think Lovable is $25/month. It is ā until you go over your message limit mid-project. Replit's 1,000 AI credits run out faster than you'd expect. Claude Opus on a complex project can
rack up $800+ in API fees before you count a single hour of dev time. Nobody talks about this clearly.
Basal fixes that.
You paste your project description. Basal detects your features, scores the complexity, and runs tool-specific formulas that include subscription cost, usage overages, and developer time ā for
Lovable, Replit, Cursor, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, GPT-4o, Gemini, and traditional development.
The output is a cost range, timeline, confidence level, and a breakdown of where your money actually goes (subscription vs usage vs labour). Pro users get a shareable client-facing link, a clean proposal page with your agency branding, plain-English feature summary, and investment estimate. No technical internals exposed.
What I'd love feedback on:
ā Does the tool-specific cost breakdown feel accurate for your experience building with these tools?
ā What's missing from the estimation model?
Try it free at trybasal.com ā 7-day trial.
Happy to answer anything! Ask away! š
I think a lot of people still treat AI tool costs as a rounding error until they hit a limit in the middle of a project. Having clearer visibility upfront seems genuinely useful.