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Sustainable Computing Tools
There are many well-designed tools that support sustainable computing: enabling power and carbon tracking, adding carbon-aware behavior, and identifying sustainability improvements.
Also see The Awesome Green Software List from Green Software Foundation
List of Tools
Quick Calculators Across the Web
Get estimated carbon emissions or power consumption with web-based quick calculators.
Cloud & AI Job Estimation
Infrastructure Estimation
Personal Activity Estimation
AI/ML
| Name | Job | Description | Useful for | Publisher | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CarbonTracker | Emissions and Power Prediction | Enables AI applications to track and predict energy consumption and carbon emissions of a GPU while training deep learning models. | AI/ML Dev | Green Software Foundation open source | Visit |
| CodeCarbon | Emissions Analysis | Enables Python codebase to track and predict emissions and shows how to reduce emissions. |
| Four organizations open source project (Dr Sasha Luccioni) | Visit |
| EcoLogits | Estimate and track the environmental footprint of GenAI models at inference | Python library to track power and emissions of AI requests, and API service to integrate into applications. Also web-based calculator tool. |
| Open source tools from group of contributors and sponsor organizations. Part of the CodeCarbon nonprofit. | Visit |
| Experiment Impact Tracker | Emissions and Power Tracking | Enables AI applications to track power and emissions from NVIDIA and Intel chips. | AI/ML Dev | IBM open source | Visit |
Ops/Cloud
| Name | Job | Description | Useful for | Publisher | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Customer Carbon Footprint | Emissions Reporting | Customer-only tool that provides carbon emissions estimate for billed usage. Data is 3 months old, without acdtionable detail. | Ops/Cloud | Amazon Web Services | Visit |
| Carbon Measurement Engine (Carmen) | Emissions Measurement | Open source tool for measuring carbon emissions of cloud software at infrastructure level and application level. Draft form as of Aug 2026. |
| Open source from Green Software Foundation | Visit |
| Climatiq | Emissions Tracking | Paid tool for tracking carbon emissions for public cloud usage |
| Climatiq paid license | Visit |
| Cloud Carbon Footprint | Emissions Tracking | Open source tool to estimate carbon emissions and power usage from public cloud usage |
| Thoughtworks open source | Visit |
| Compute Gardener | Automated Scheduler | open-source scheduler to optimize workloads based on carbon intensity data |
| Compute Gardener | Visit |
| Google Cloud Platform Customer Carbon Footprint | Emissions Reporting | Customer-only tool that provides carbon emissions estimate for billed usage. Data is not real-time and lacks actionable detail. | Ops/Cloud | Google Cloud Platform | Visit |
| Grid Intensity Go | Emissions Reduction | Open Source scheduling tool that adds awareness of how much carbon the electrical grid is emitting to scheduling decisions. | Ops/Cloud | Green Web Foundation open source | Visit |
| Kepler | Energy consumption measurement of workloads based on CPU time | Kepler (Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter) is a Prometheus exporter that measures energy consumption at the container, pod, VM, and process level by reading hardware sensors and attributing power based on resource utilization. | Ops/Cloud | Cloud Native Computing Foundation open source | Visit |
| Kube Green | Emissions Reduction | Open source Kubernetes operator that shuts down resources when they aren’t needed. | Ops/Cloud | GitHub CNCF community open source | Visit |
| Microsoft Azure Emissions Impact Dashboard | Emissions Reporting | Customer-only tool that provides carbon emissions estimate for billed usage but data is 3 months old without actionable detail. Available only to Power BI Pro customers. | Ops/Cloud | Microsoft Azure | Visit |
| OxygenIT | Emisssions Tracking | GreenOps API to measure cloud and IT infrastructure carbon emissions. | Ops/Cloud | OxygenIT | Visit |
| TGG Tool Library | Data Center Efficiency Tools | Tools for data center management from The Green Grid, a data center industry alliance working on sustainability and efficiency | Ops/Cloud | The Green Grid | Visit |
App/Dev
| Name | Job | Description | Useful for | Publisher | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boavizta | Emissions and Power Tracking | 5 open source tools for measuring and reducing carbon and energy |
| Boavizta | Visit |
| Carbon Aware | Emissions Prediction | Open source SDK testing framework to track and predict carbon emissions |
| Green Software Foundation open source | Visit |
| CO2.js | Emissions Tracking | Open source library to add carbon emissions measurement to APIs |
| The Green Web Foundation open source | Visit |
| Green Metrics Tool | Emissions and Power Tracking | Open source tool suite for tracking emissions and power consumption | App/Dev | Green Coding open source | Visit |
| Intel Performance Counter Monitor | Power Tracking | Open source API tools for tracking power consumption of microprocessors | App/Dev | Intel open source | Visit |
| PowerAPI | Power Tracking | Open source tool to add power consumption tracking to software applications |
| Inria open source | Visit |
| Step CI | Emissions Tracking | Open source test framework that adds carbon emissions tracking | App/Dev | StepCI.com open source | Visit |
Web/Dev
| Name | Job | Description | Useful for | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Are My Third Parties Green? | Third Party Services Calculator | Tests the emissions of third-party services used by a website. | Web/Dev | Green Web Foundation |
| CO2.js Playground | Website Emissions Calculator | Website carbon emissions calculator. Offers the most complete analysis. | Web/Dev | Green Web Foundation |
| Digital Beacon | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator. | Web/Dev | Aline |
| EcoGrader | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator with thorough analysis. Offers code snippet for a badge that displays emissions. | Web/Dev | MightyBytes |
| EcoIndex.fr | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator. Offers code snippet for a badge that displays emissions. | Web/Dev | EcoIndex.fr community |
| Greenframe | Website Emissions Analysis Tool | Open-source solution that allows developers to decarbonize their websites by detecting carbon leaks | Web/Dev | Marmelab |
| GreenIT-Analysis | Browser Emissions Tracker | Browser extension that tracks the environmental impacts of an entire user journey. | Web/Dev | CNumR |
| Green Web Foundation Calculator | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator. Offers code snippet for a badge that displays emissions. | Web/Dev | Green Web Foundation |
| PageSpeed Insights | Website Performance Analyzer | Scores a web page’s speed to load and suggests improvements for faster loading and smaller page weight. | Web/Dev | |
| webNRG | Website Performance Analyzer | Measures the energy to render and transmit a web page | Web/Dev | Green Coding |
| Website Carbon Calculator | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator. Offers code snippet for a badge that displays emissions. | Web/Dev | Wholegrain Digital |
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