Tracking Energy Use in ChatUI 🤗

How much energy do your chatbot conversations consume? The first AI chat interface with real-time energy estimates!

This tool helps users compare models, tasks, and strategies (like reasoning), empowering informed decisions. Even small energy savings can scale up across millions of queries — model choice or output length can lead to major environmental impact.

To make these costs more relatable, we compare them to everyday activities (like phone charging or driving) using EPA-based equivalents.

With projects like the AI Energy Score and broader research on AI’s energy footprint, we're pushing for transparency in the open-source community. One day, energy usage could be as visible as nutrition labels on food!