AI Chatbot Cost Calculator

    Plan your customer support bot budget. Estimate costs based on your active user base and conversation volume.

    [ CHATBOT COST PREJECTION ]
    $1.95/mo
    1

    Pick your engine

    GPT-4o

    flagship

    Best for most tasks

    Input / 1M$2.50
    Output / 1M$10.00

    GPT-4o mini

    fast

    Fastest & cheapest OpenAI option

    Input / 1M$0.15
    Output / 1M$0.60

    o1

    flagship

    Advanced reasoning

    Input / 1M$15.00
    Output / 1M$60.00

    o1-mini

    standard

    Fast reasoning model

    Input / 1M$3.00
    Output / 1M$12.00

    GPT-3.5 Turbo

    fast

    Legacy fast model

    Input / 1M$0.50
    Output / 1M$1.50
    2

    Scale & Volume

    1,000
    10

    The size of the user message + system prompt

    Length of the AI's response

    3

    Review Projections

    Per Request$0.000195
    Per Day$0.0650
    Per Month$1.95

    Cost as you grow

    UsersRequests / MoMonthlyYearly
    1001000.0K$195.00$2,340.00
    1.0K10.0M$1,950.00$23,400.00
    10.0K100.0M$19,500.00$234.0K
    100.0K1000.0M$195.0K$2.3M

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    Why chatbot costs spiral

    Chatbot costs are driven by two main factors: the number of users and the length of the conversation. If your bot doesn't have "memory" (context), each new message sends the entire previous history back to the AI, increasing costs exponentially.

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