AI Energy Calculator – Manual vs AI Energy Comparison

Compare Manual Work vs AI

Estimate and compare the energy impact of doing creative work manually or with AI assistance. This tool compares the energy use of one person’s device — not full production pipelines.

Select your device (typical power) What are you doing?

🛠️ Manual Work

How long do you work on it yourself manually? (in hours)
(e.g., editing the image or video yourself, without AI help)

🤖 AI-Assisted Work

How many results do you make with AI instead of doing them yourself?
(e.g., number of AI-generated images, 5 sec videos, or texts) How much time do you spend reviewing or prompting AI? (in hours)
(e.g., writing prompts, reviewing outputs)

Updated: 15.11.2025:

Made visible these: Creating an image (~1.5 Wh per image) (Hugging Face, Stable Diffusion 3 Medium). Making a video (~940 Wh per 5 sec video) (MIT Technology Review, Luccioni / CogVideoX-measurements). Writing or generating text (~0.3 Wh per request) (Epoch AI, MIT Technology Review).

Added text to beginning: This tool compares the energy use of one person’s device — not full production pipelines.

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