What does a month of AI cost to run?
Pick a channel and volume. The calculator shows the monthly AI running cost and what the same hours cost if a person does them. The assumptions are below — feel free to disagree.
Channel
Calls, conversations, emails or documents per month. For phone we assume 3 minutes on average.
How many minutes it takes a person to do the same.
Gross salary plus social contributions, divided by working hours.
Monthly AI running cost
€0- Usage
- Hosting and monitoring
- Staff hours
- Cost of those hours
- Difference per month
Excluding VAT and the build. Indicative values as of November 2026.
Assumptions
Where the numbers come from
Provider prices change often. We use averages for popular models and platforms and round up. The exact figure for your case is in the proposal.
| Channel | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Phone (voice AI) | €0.12 per minute | Speech recognition, language model, voice synthesis and phone line; 3 minutes per call on average. |
| Chat (web, Messenger, Viber) | €0.025 per conversation | Language model for a 6–10 message conversation. Viber business message fees not included. |
| €0.012 per email | Reading, categorising and drafting a reply. | |
| Documents | €0.03 per document | Reading and extracting data from an invoice or delivery note of up to 3 pages. |
| Hosting and monitoring | €15 / month | Server or automation platform plus failure alerts. |