This tool evaluates how much electricity your chatbot messages consume

Ever wonder how much electricity you use when you prompt or thank you, AI model? Hug an engineer on the face of Julien Delawande, so he built instrument to help arrive the answer.

AI models consume energy every time they run. They are performed on graphic processors and specialized chips, which need a lot of power to perform related computing loads on a scale. It is not easy to determine the power consumption of the model but is broadly it is expected The fact that the growing use of AI technologies will lead to electricity for new heights over the next few years.

The search for more power to load AI has made some companies pursue unpleasant Strategies. Tools such as Delavande the goal of attracting attention to this and perhaps to give some AI pause users.

“Even small energy savings can increase in millions of requests – choosing a model or exit length can lead to a great impact on the environment,” Delavande and other tool creators wrote in a statementS

⚡ You ever wonder how much energy is used every time you send a message to Chatgpt?

We just created a version of the user’s chat interface that shows how much energy your message consumes – in real time. Should all chatbots show this?

Details below 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/tbl0pw51pw

– Delavande Julien (@juliendelavande) April 22, 2025

The Delavande tool is designed to work with UI for chat, the front end of the models of models such as Llama 3.3 70B of Meta and Gemma 3 on Google. The instrument evaluates the consumption of energy from messages sent to and from a model in real time, taking into account consumption of consumption in watt hours or joules. It also compares the use of the model’s energy with that of ordinary household appliances, such as microwaves and LEDs.

According to the instrument that wants Llama 3.3 70B to write a typical email, it uses approximately 0.1841 watts of hour-equivalent to launching a microwave for 0.12 seconds or using a toaster for 0.02 seconds.

It is worth remembering that the instrument’s assessments are just those – evaluations. Delawand does not claim that they are incredibly precise. However, they serve as a reminder that everything – chatbots included – there are expenses.

“With projects like EI ENERGY Score and wider studies of the AI ​​energy print, we insist on transparency in the open source community. One day energy consumption can be as visible as the food labels of food!” Delawand and his co-creators wrote.