> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.near.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Staking Calculator > Estimate how much NEAR to stake to cover your private inference usage, or see what a given stake gets you — based on the current NEAR price and staking APY. Staking rewards, not your principal, pay for [private inference](/cloud/private-inference) on NEAR AI Cloud. Use this calculator to translate between a monthly inference budget and the NEAR you'd need to stake to cover it, or start from an amount of NEAR and see what it buys. Everything below is a live model: it fetches the current NEAR price on load, defaults to the network's current staking APY, and lets you override either assumption to see how the numbers move. See [Staking for Inference](/cloud/staking-for-inference/overview) for how the underlying mechanism works.