AI cost calculators
Know what an AI project will cost before you quote, buy, or build it.
Choose a calculator for content production, agency pricing, workflow automation, support ROI, or API spend. Replace the defaults with your real assumptions, then copy a quote, ROI report, or share link.
Free estimate. No account required. Inputs stay in your browser. Pricing sources are listed.
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Choose content, agency pricing, workflow ROI, support ROI, or API budget.
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Calculators
Start with the project you need to price.
AI cost planning depends on workflow runs, conversations, generated assets, failed attempts, revisions, human time, subscriptions, payment fees, and target margin. Token and API calculators remain available for deeper technical planning.
AI Workflow Cost Calculator
Estimate AI workflow cost and payback pressure from runs, tasks or credits per run, AI/API usage, subscriptions, hosting, support hours, and margin.
AI Customer Support ROI Calculator
Calculate AI support ROI from conversation volume, human support cost, AI resolution rate, platform fees, QA hours, savings, and payback.
AI Automation Agency Pricing Calculator
Estimate AI automation agency pricing from workflow runs, tool costs, setup hours, subscriptions, client retainer, gross profit, and margin.
AI Chatbot Cost Calculator
Estimate AI chatbot and support agent cost from conversations, AI cost per conversation, escalation rate, subscriptions, support hours, and margin.
AI Agency Pricing Calculator
Estimate AI agency pricing from setup work, monthly retainers, deliverables, AI usage, human time, subscriptions, gross profit, and margin.
AI Content Profit Margin Calculator
Calculate AI content project profit margin from billable units, generation cost, revisions, labor, subscriptions, fees, revenue, and target margin.
AI Content Cost Calculator
Estimate AI image, video, voice, and script project cost, client price, gross profit, and margin before quoting content work.
AI API Pricing Calculator
Compare major LLM API pricing from request volume, tokens, cached input, and budget buffer.
LLM API Pricing Comparison
Compare major LLM provider pricing from the same request, token, cached input, and budget assumptions.
China LLM API Pricing Calculator
Compare China LLM API prices in CNY across Qwen, Doubao, ERNIE, Hunyuan, and custom negotiated contract rates.
Cheapest LLM API Calculator
Find the lowest estimated LLM API cost across major providers for a specific workload.
AI Cost Calculator
Estimate monthly AI app cost from users, AI actions, model calls, tokens, embeddings, infrastructure, retries, and budget buffer.
AI agency automation
Build an automation offer from guide to calculator.
For agency, SaaS, and operations workflows, move from cost research to platform choice, workflow cost, retainer pricing, and support ROI.
AI Automation Cost Guide
Start with workflow volume, AI calls, platform fees, hosting, support hours, and margin.
2. PlatformZapier vs Make vs n8n Cost
Normalize tasks, credits, executions, AI/API calls, retries, and support into cost per business run.
3. Unit costAI Workflow Cost Calculator
Estimate monthly workflow cost from runs, task multipliers, subscriptions, hosting, and support labor.
4. RetainerAI Automation Agency Pricing Calculator
Turn cost into a client retainer, gross profit, target price, and margin check.
5. Business caseAI Customer Support ROI Guide
Use this when the buyer needs savings, payback, resolution rate, and implementation assumptions.
6. PaybackAI Customer Support ROI Calculator
Calculate support savings, annualized impact, ROI, and payback period from real support volume.
For creators and agencies
Use the AI Content Cost Calculator to estimate the cost and margin of children's books, ad creative packs, short videos, voiceovers, and client content projects before you quote them.
Focused entry pages now cover AI image costs, AI video generation costs, AI voiceover costs, and AI children's book costs.
Commercial pages also cover AI ad creative costs, AI product photo costs, AI short video batch costs, and AI KDP book production costs.
New creator-business pages cover AI avatar video costs, AI UGC ad costs, AI course content costs, and AI podcast production costs.
Use the AI Content Pricing Guide for the full pricing framework, or browse the AI creator business calculator cluster.
Agency-focused pages now cover AI agency retainer pricing, AI workflow costs, Zapier vs Make vs n8n workflow cost, AI automation agency pricing, AI chatbot support costs, AI customer support ROI, and the AI agency business calculator cluster.
New guides explain AI automation cost and AI chatbot pricing plus AI customer support ROI and automation platform cost before users choose calculator assumptions.
For developers and AI products
Use the AI Cost Calculator, AI API Pricing Calculator, and LLM API Pricing Comparison when you need product-level model, token, RAG, or agent cost planning.
Built for quote-ready questions
Each page targets a practical pricing or budgeting task, not a generic AI article.
Formula-first tools
Calculators show the assumptions behind the result so users can adjust the quote.
2026-07-04
Pricing assumptions are tracked separately from page copy for easier updates.