CO₂, water, energy — visible per request.

What does your question cost the planet?

What you can't see, you can't manage. Every answer shows you a consumption readout. Not a guilty conscience — a dashboard.

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Every AI answer uses electricity, water and CO₂ — but no provider shows how much comes out the tailpipe. And for simple questions the most powerful model often runs. “You drive the van to the ice-cream parlour around the corner — and nobody tells you a bike or your own two feet would have done the job.”

discode makes the ecological footprint of every request visible and routes by default as resource-efficiently as your settings and the task allow. The Eco-Score is a compass, not a measuring device.

Ask a question — and see what it costs.

Eco-Score

Every answer shows right away what it cost: CO₂ in grams, water in millilitres, energy in watt-hours — collected in the Eco-Stats panel. No other AI service makes these figures visible.

More details

Calculation: (tokens / 1000) × provider factor × model factor, based on public research (Epoch AI 2024, IEA 2024, Li et al. 2023). Estimates — hence beta.

CO₂~3.15g·~25.90ml·~16.75WhBeta

Energy

An estimate of your answer's electricity use — based on model size, token count and the data centre's efficiency (PUE).

CO₂

A server in France on nuclear power has a completely different footprint than one in China on coal. Exactly this difference becomes visible here — Scope 2 (purchased electricity, market-based); EU data centres consistently come out better.

GHG Protocol — Scope 2 Guidance

Water

AI data centres cool themselves with water — depending on location and season, roughly half a litre per short conversation. Modern EU sites with air cooling reduce that significantly. We show you both ends of the spectrum.

Li et al., „Making AI Less Thirsty“ (CACM 2025)

What we capture per request

Three values sit behind every Eco-Score. Here's what they mean — and why the data centre's location in particular makes the difference.

What you pay

Not just the ecological price — the financial one too. What each request costs you see right in the chat: request by request, not in a monthly bill you didn't see coming. That way you keep both costs in view.

Eco

Eco-Slider

A slider from 1 to 5, embedded in the right-hand context menu — right where you can also steer model and filter search manually. The higher you pull it, the more discode prioritises frugal models. How the automatic model choice works behind the scenes is shown by Smart.

Eco-Routing

By default discode picks the most frugal model that can handle your task — 60–70 % of all requests run in the most efficient tier this way. Bike instead of van.

Honest limits: the Eco-Score doesn't give exact kWh, doesn't measure Scope 3 precisely, guarantees no certified data and doesn't compute cooling water exactly — estimates based on public research and the little data the big techs hand over. Hence beta and “a compass, not a measuring device”.