Estimator

Estimate your annual AI spend.

Four questions. See your estimated annual spend across four paths — API-only, managed reserved, self-hosted, and build your own — and which one fits your scale.

Product type

Task complexity

Monthly active users

Usage per user per day

Your estimated annual spend

API-only

Recommended

$365K

Managed reserved

N/A

Below minimum commit

Self-hosted

$928K

Build your own

$3.1M

API-only fits your scale

At this scale, APIs deliver the lowest total cost once you factor in the engineering, ops, and compliance work needed to run alternatives. Revisit this decision at 10x growth.

This is a rough directional estimate. Real decisions depend on latency needs, data residency, compliance, platform services, and team capacity.

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