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The Agent Cost Calculator.
Pick a workflow, set the volume, see what running an AI agent actually costs. Real API pricing across nine frontier and value-tier models. No vendor math, no "contact sales".
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33 tasks/day · 1,000 tasks/month
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Our pick for this workload
Claude Sonnet 4.6
The sweet spot. Sonnet handles 90% of agent workflows at 1/5th the cost of Opus.
Per task
$0.021
Per month
$21.00
vs hiring a SDR
$6000/mo
The agent costs 99.7% less than the human equivalent. You save $5979/mo if it does the same work.
Same workload, every model
Sorted cheapest to most expensive.
Click any row to recalculate the headline numbers with that model.
Spread between cheapest and most expensive: 36×. The model you pick matters more than almost any other variable.
Reality check
Most vendors quote you per-task pricing or per-seat pricing — not per-token. That's the math they want you to do. The numbers above are what the underlying API costs would be if you ran the same workload directly.
A SaaS platform charging $0.50 per task for a workload that costs $0.00290 on the cheapest API is making 17,141% margin on every call. Sometimes that's fair (managed infra, polish, support). Sometimes it's not. You decide — but at least know the math.