AI pricing guide
AI Content Pricing Guide
Price AI content work from the full delivery cost, not just the model call. Use this guide to choose the right calculator for images, videos, UGC ads, avatar videos, courses, podcasts, KDP books, agency retainers, and margin checks.
AI Content Profit Margin Calculator
Calculate AI content project profit margin from billable units, generation cost, revisions, labor, subscriptions, fees, revenue, and target margin.
CalculatorAI Agency Pricing Calculator
Estimate AI agency pricing from setup work, monthly retainers, deliverables, AI usage, human time, subscriptions, gross profit, and margin.
CalculatorAI Automation Agency Pricing Calculator
Estimate AI automation agency pricing from workflow runs, tool costs, setup hours, subscriptions, client retainer, gross profit, and margin.
CalculatorAI Chatbot Cost Calculator
Estimate AI chatbot and support agent cost from conversations, AI cost per conversation, escalation rate, subscriptions, support hours, and margin.
CalculatorAI Ad Creative Cost Calculator
Estimate AI ad creative package cost from assets, variants, scripts, editing time, client price, gross profit, and margin.
CalculatorAI Product Photo Cost Calculator
Estimate AI product photo project cost from ecommerce images, background variants, retouching, exports, client price, and margin.
CalculatorAI Short Video Cost Calculator
Estimate AI short video batch cost from generated seconds, failed renders, scripts, captions, editing time, client price, and margin.
CalculatorAI Avatar Video Cost Calculator
Estimate AI avatar video project cost from generated minutes, scripts, retakes, editing time, client price, gross profit, and margin.
CalculatorAI Course Content Cost Calculator
Estimate AI course content production cost from lesson minutes, scripts, videos, voiceovers, slides, editing time, package price, and margin.
CalculatorAI Podcast Production Cost Calculator
Estimate AI podcast production cost from episode minutes, transcription, cleanup, clips, show notes, editing time, client price, and margin.
CalculatorAI KDP Book Cost Calculator
Estimate AI-assisted KDP book production cost from illustrations, story work, formatting, proofing, launch revenue target, and margin.
Pricing framework
The safest pricing workflow is: estimate production units, multiply by the effective AI cost, add revisions and retries, add human delivery time, add subscriptions and fees, then test the client price against target margin.
| Cost layer | What to include | Common mistake |
|---|---|---|
| AI generation | Images, video seconds, voice minutes, avatar minutes, script tokens, and failed attempts. | Counting only the final usable output. |
| Human delivery | Prompting, art direction, editing, QA, layout, captions, exports, and client revisions. | Treating AI output as client-ready without review. |
| Operating cost | Subscriptions, payment fees, contractor costs, proofing, platform uploads, and project management. | Forgetting subscriptions and fees when quoting fixed packages. |
| Profit margin | Gross profit, gross margin, and minimum price needed for the target margin. | Confusing low AI cost with profitable delivery. |
For agencies
Start with the AI Agency Pricing Calculator when selling monthly packages. It is built for retainers, deliverables, revision load, human delivery time, subscriptions, and target margin.
Use the AI Automation Agency Pricing Calculator for workflow retainers, and the AI Chatbot Cost Calculator for customer support agents or chatbot packages.
Use the AI Workflow Cost Calculator when comparing Zapier, Make, n8n, or custom workflows, and the AI Customer Support ROI Calculator when the buyer needs a savings case.
Read the AI Automation Cost Guide and AI Chatbot Pricing Guide when you need a pricing model before setting calculator assumptions.
Use the AI Content Profit Margin Calculator before sending a quote, especially when the project mixes images, video, voice, and manual delivery work.
For creators
Start with focused calculators for the product you are building: KDP books, courses, podcasts, short videos, UGC ads, product photos, and avatar videos. Each calculator has editable assumptions, so you can replace defaults with your real provider plan.
Use the pricing sources page to verify official provider pricing before committing to a production budget.