Basal

Developers and agencies are quoting AI-built projects without accounting for what those AI tools actually cost to use.

Most people think Lovable is $25/month. It is, until you hit 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.

Paste your project description. Basal detects your features, scores complexity, and runs tool-specific formulas covering subscription cost, usage overages, and developer time, across Lovable, Replit, Cursor, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, GPT-4o, Gemini, and traditional development.

You get a cost range, timeline, confidence level, and a breakdown of exactly where your money goes: subscription vs usage vs labour.

For agencies: set your margin, pick your currency (40+ supported with live exchange rates), and Basal generates a clean client-facing proposal with your markup baked in. No internal cost breakdown exposed, just a professional investment figure your client can act on.

For client briefs: drop in a PDF directly. Basal reads it, extracts what matters, and returns a structured estimate in seconds. No more copy-pasting walls of text.

Toggle on price range mode and Basal shows a confidence-adjusted low–high range instead of a single number, useful when you need to manage expectations upfront. Everything recalculates without re-running AI, so adjusting your margin for a specific client takes seconds.

Basal is built for the people writing the quotes, not just reading them.

7-day free trial, then $19/month: https://www.trybasal.com