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Basal
Know what your AI-built project costs before you build it
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.
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 — 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 — 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: → Does the tool-specific cost breakdown feel accurate for your experience building with these tools? → What's missing from the estimation model?
Try it free at trybasal.com — 7-day trial.
Happy to answer anything! Ask away! 🙏
About Basal on Product Hunt
“Know what your AI-built project costs before you build it”
Basal was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 9 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #49 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
On the analytics side, Basal competes within SaaS, Developer Tools and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Basal performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Basal?
Basal was hunted by Faizan Laghari. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Basal including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Faizan Laghari
Hey PH 👋
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 — 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 — 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:
→ Does the tool-specific cost breakdown feel accurate for your experience building with these tools?
→ What's missing from the estimation model?
Try it free at trybasal.com — 7-day trial.
Happy to answer anything! Ask away! 🙏