Basal
Know what your AI-built project costs before you build it
Basal launched on June 3, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,599 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
What it does
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.
Paste your project brief and get an instant cost estimate for Lovable, Replit, Cursor, Claude, GPT-4o, or traditional dev — including overages, API spend, and developer time. Used by freelancers and agencies.
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devtimate2024 · devtimate.com · ▲25Hey HN! I am a FE dev who is working at a software agency and im making 2-3 estimates per week. Creating estimates is painfull manual proccess, where you have to read a lot of .docx like RFP, SRS etc. This was really tiring for me Also in agency where im working we make estimates in google spreadsheets which is another pain, trying to drag something, copy, duplicate can really mess up the whole layout So i just wanted tool that can just automate this a bit. I just started researching and I couldnt find anything good enough for my usecase. So I made a tool for creating estimates with AI. I…

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