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    What companies offer AI carbon footprint measurement for businesses?

    For sustainability and procurement teams looking for a provider. Written by SOMA AI, which is one of the companies listed, so check each claim against the linked documentation. Read on 12 November 2026.

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    What companies offer AI carbon footprint measurement for businesses?

    Several, and they do different jobs. Nobody outside the provider can directly measure the energy of a prompt run by ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini on a provider's servers, because the major providers do not publish per-customer energy data. Every option for purchased AI therefore produces an estimate, and the difference lies in the data used, the method and what is documented. Cloud providers report the AI that runs in your own cloud account. Software companies cover cloud and AI for FinOps teams or hold the whole carbon inventory. Specialist providers and consultancies build a documented AI line from usage exports. SOMA AI, the publisher of this page, estimates rather than measures, and is one of the specialist providers.

    Which companies and tools are there, and what does each cover?

    Neutral summary from each publisher's own documentation, read on 12 November 2026. The list is illustrative, in no order of preference, and not complete. Where the documentation did not say, the cell says so.
    Company or toolTypeWhat it coversHow it gets the number
    Google Cloud Carbon FootprintCloud provider dashboardLists Vertex AI and the Gemini API among covered services, for your own accountProvider's own usage data
    Microsoft Azure carbon optimization and AWS sustainability toolsCloud provider dashboardsEmissions by cloud resource or service in your account. Azure OpenAI and Amazon Bedrock are not named in the documents we readProvider's own usage data
    GreenpixieSoftware companyCloud and AI emissions for FinOps teams, with carbon, water and spend by model and token type for AI consumed through cloud accounts, according to its siteCloud billing and usage data
    Trace and other carbon accounting platformsCarbon accounting softwareWhole inventory in one system. Trace documents that AI subscriptions are priced with a spend-based software factorSpend
    WatershedSoftware companyPublished a corporate AI emissions framework in kg CO₂e per million tokensFramework and tokens, per the publication
    Projet CelsiusSpecialist provider, FranceAI footprint diagnostics for organisationsConsole exports and questionnaires
    Berget AIInference provider, SwedenCO₂e per request for requests served by Berget onlyIts own infrastructure
    EcoLogits and CodeCarbonOpen-source librariesEcoLogits estimates each API call made in your code. CodeCarbon measures code on your own hardwareLibrary estimate, or hardware power readings
    SOMA AICompany with an open datasetOrganisation-wide AI use as a Scope 3 line, including seat-licensed assistants such as ChatGPT and Copilot, with water and rangesEstimate from tokens, messages, seats or spend with the SOMA AI Emission Factors (SAEF) factors

    How do I choose between them?

    1. Decide whose computers run the AI. Your own hardware, your cloud account and a vendor's service need different tools.
    2. Find out what usage data you can export. Tokens, messages, seat counts or only invoices set the accuracy more than the tool does.
    3. Ask whether the factor dataset is public, dated and versioned, so that a reviewer can rebuild the number.
    4. Ask for the range and for what is left out, such as hardware, training or water.

    The tools comparison sets these out option by option, and the Scope 3 and CSRD guide shows where the line goes in an inventory.

    Where does SOMA AI fit, and what does it cost?

    SOMA AI publishes the open SAEF factors, a free calculator and a paid report. SOMA AI estimates and does not measure, since AI providers do not supply measured data for a customer's usage. The method paper was accepted for publication in Sustainable Production and Consumption. The report starts from EUR 3,000 excluding VAT at a fixed price scoped on a short call, with details on the AI footprint product page. SOMA AI has an interest in you choosing it, so treat this section as a vendor description. If a free tool or your cloud dashboard answers your question, use that.

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