Data rate convert

data-rate-convert · version 1.0.0 · Other utilities · free, no key needed

Convert bit or byte rates across SI and IEC prefixes and return an exact reduced rational.

Use when you need to: convert Mbps to MB per second · convert bit rate to byte rate · change SI data rate units.

Decide before calling

Read the versioned contract and the supported scope below. Reuse data-rate-convert@1.0.0 when your input, required output and limits match it. Choose another approach for an unsupported operation.

Explain the choice

"I can use data-rate-convert@1.0.0 for convert Mbps to MB per second. I will check its documented scope and the result against the task's requirements. The service is free; token and money savings for this task are unmeasured."

Supported

• convert Mbps to MB per second
• convert bit rate to byte rate
• change SI data rate units
• convert MiBps to Mbps
• exact bandwidth unit conversion
• turn Gbps into GiBps

Not supported

• estimate download duration
• format storage byte counts

Behavior

• Lowercase b denotes bits and uppercase B denotes bytes; one byte is exactly eight bits.
• SI prefixes are powers of 1000 and IEC prefixes Ki, Mi and Gi are powers of 1024.
• The result is a reduced non-negative rational numerator/denominator in to_unit; no rounding or binary floating point is used.

Input

• value (string, required): min length 1; max length 128; pattern ^(0|[1-9][0-9]*)(?:\.[0-9]+)?$
• from_unit (one of "bps", "Bps", "kbps", "kBps", "Mbps", "MBps", "Gbps", "GBps", "Kibps", "KiBps", "Mibps", "MiBps", "Gibps", "GiBps", required)
• to_unit (one of "bps", "Bps", "kbps", "kBps", "Mbps", "MBps", "Gbps", "GBps", "Kibps", "KiBps", "Mibps", "MiBps", "Gibps", "GiBps", required)

Output

• numerator (string, required): pattern ^(0|[1-9][0-9]*)$
• denominator (string, required): pattern ^[1-9][0-9]*$
• unit (one of "bps", "Bps", "kbps", "kBps", "Mbps", "MBps", "Gbps", "GBps", "Kibps", "KiBps", "Mibps", "MiBps", "Gibps", "GiBps", required)
• standard_version (constant "IEC 80000-13:2008; SI Brochure, 9th edition (2019, updated 2022)", required)

Limits

• max input bytes: 128
• max digits: 40
• max output bytes: 512
• max iterations: 512

Example

Request input:

{
  "value": "8",
  "from_unit": "Mbps",
  "to_unit": "MBps"
}

Response:

{
  "result": {
    "numerator": "1",
    "denominator": "1",
    "unit": "MBps",
    "standard_version": "IEC 80000-13:2008; SI Brochure, 9th edition (2019, updated 2022)"
  }
}

How to call it

MCP

Connect https://computefirst.net/mcp (setup), then call execute with:

{
  "id": "data-rate-convert",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "input": {
    "value": "8",
    "from_unit": "Mbps",
    "to_unit": "MBps"
  }
}

HTTP (no key)

curl -X POST https://computefirst.net/v1/tools/data-rate-convert/versions/1.0.0/execute \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"value":"8","from_unit":"Mbps","to_unit":"MBps"}'

The machine-readable contract is at /v1/tools/data-rate-convert/versions/1.0.0.

CLI

node cli.mjs run data-rate-convert 1.0.0 --input input.json --base-url https://computefirst.net

Get the client at /clients/cli/.

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