Homelab Tools
Free calculators built on the same sourced data as our reviews. No signup, everything runs in your browser.
Power Cost Calculator
Work out what a 24/7 mini PC home server actually costs per year on your electricity rate, using sourced idle and load wattage for popular models.
Open tool →VM Capacity Estimator
Estimate how many Proxmox VMs and LXC containers a given mini PC can realistically run based on cores, threads, and RAM.
Open tool →TrueNAS Hardware Calculator
Size the RAM a TrueNAS build needs and see the usable pool capacity left after parity, using the rules published in the official TrueNAS hardware guide.
Open tool →Plex & Jellyfin Transcode Calculator
Check whether a mini PC can hardware decode, encode, and HDR tone-map your library, with codec support taken from the Jellyfin hardware matrices.
Open tool →UPS Sizing Calculator
Size a UPS for a homelab from your measured load, with proper headroom, filtered to pure sine wave units that support clean shutdown on Proxmox and TrueNAS.
Open tool →NAS Capacity & Drive Cost Calculator
Work out usable capacity after parity and the real cost per terabyte, then compare drive sizes to hit a target capacity for the least money.
Open tool →Frigate Camera Calculator
How many cameras a Frigate detector keeps up with, using the inference times Frigate publishes per accelerator and integrated GPU.
Open tool →Network Transfer Time Calculator
How long a copy takes over 1GbE, 2.5GbE or 10GbE, and whether the network or the storage is the real bottleneck.
Open tool →Mini PC Comparison
Put two mini PCs side by side: specs, networking, power draw, and estimated annual running cost with the better value highlighted.
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