A practical AI stack planner

Capability without the accidental data center.

Answer five questions about the work you do. The planner prices a mix of local and hosted models against your budget and shows why each part earned its place.

  • Runs without an account or API key
  • Every number cites a source

Question 1 of 5

About 60 seconds
What should your stack be good at?

Choose everything that matters. Keep at least one selected.

How it thinks

A short list with reasons attached.

Tokens or Towers routes each workload to the least expensive model that plausibly handles it, then adds local hardware only when privacy or sustained use can justify the purchase.

The catalog stays small on purpose. Treat the prices and performance assumptions as a starting point for your own comparison shopping, and check a live listing before you buy anything.