ByteThirst

Understand Your AI Footprint

ByteThirst provides transparency into the environmental costs of your AI interactions. Every prompt you send to platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity has a hidden ecological cost in terms of water for cooling data centers, energy consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions.

How It Works

Tracking your environmental impact is simple with ByteThirst's four-step process:

1. Install & Forget: Add the ByteThirst Chrome extension to your browser. It runs silently in the background without requiring an account or setup.
2. See Your QueryWeight: Open the popup anytime to view your daily and weekly estimated AI footprint, including water, energy, and CO2 estimates with standard volume conversions.
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3. Understand & Share: Generate beautiful weekly impact cards to share on social media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, or Reddit. Earn achievement badges along the way.
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4. Go Team: Upgrade to Teams to see your organization's collective QueryWeight and set shared goals to build awareness together.

Key Features

ByteThirst tracks usage across 14 different AI platforms, including code builders like Lovable.dev and Bolt.new. Whether you are doing everyday chat or intensive vibe coding sessions, the tool provides accurate estimates based on the QueryWeight methodology.

• Comprehensive Tracking: Monitor water (mL), energy (Wh), and CO2 (g) across 14 platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Mistral, and more.
• Privacy-First Design: Your conversations, prompts, and responses are never collected. Calculations happen locally on your device by default.
• CLI Support: Estimate the environmental impact of terminal-based AI tools like Claude Code, Aider, and GitHub Copilot CLI.
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• Multi-Tier Access: Choose from Free, Premium, and Collaborative tiers to suit individual or team needs.

Pricing Tiers

Choose the plan that fits your usage:

• Free Tier: Includes daily and weekly QueryWeight dashboards, volume conversions, 6 achievement badges, and a CLI tool for terminal-based tracking.
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• Premium Tier: Advanced analytics with 30/60/90-day historical trends, unlimited social impact cards, usage spike alerts, and code generation impact breakdowns.
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• Collaborative Tier: Designed for teams (5-seat minimum), featuring a team dashboard, shared goals, challenges, and ESG-ready quarterly reports.
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