💰 LLM Cost Calculator
Compare API costs across Claude, GPT-5.6, and Gemini with current verified per-token pricing. Model your monthly bill.
Open calculator →🖥️ VRAM Calculator
Can your GPU run that open-weights model? Estimate memory needs by parameter count, quantization, and context.
Open calculator →🔌 MCP Server Directory
A curated, no-fluff directory of Model Context Protocol servers — what each connects, who maintains it, how to run it.
Browse directory →🧪 Eval Harness Starter Kit
A minimal, provider-agnostic eval harness you can run today — the "boring reliability layer" every episode tells you to build.
Get the kit →🤖 MCP Server
These calculators as tools your coding agent can call — plus a config auditor that flags what each MCP server in your setup can actually reach.
Get the server →These tools are maintained as part of This Week in AIOps — pricing and directories get re-verified with each week's episode.
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Who builds these tools
AIOps Field Notes is written by James Son, a network, security, and automation engineer, and everything here is tested in a live multi-vendor lab. That same lab work is behind two paid things for teams who run the infrastructure underneath the AI: