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AI Agent Cost Calculator

A quick, honest estimate of what it costs to build and run an AI agent — the build (one-time) and the monthly LLM + infrastructure cost. The ranges come from four production agents I've shipped. For the full reasoning, read How Much Does It Cost to Build an AI Agent?

What are you building?

Pick the closest match — every detail can be fine-tuned below.

Build · one-time

€8,000€11,000

Best fit: Sprint

Run · monthly

$201 /mo

$0.00 / run · €185/mo

LLM $22· Vector DB $80· Hosting $60· Observability $39

Honest ballpark from 4 production agents I've shipped — not a quote. LLM rates are provider USD list prices (June 2026).

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01Build cost (one-time)

Foundation (€6,000: one agent, prompt design, deployment, basic eval) — tap what you need to add:

02Running cost (monthly)

Real token math on current provider prices.

Agent type

Model: GPT-4.1 mini · picked for your agent type

Advanced — choose the model & caching

Agent runs / month

10,000

How this is calculated

Running cost uses real token math — agent runs × tokens per run × current provider list prices, plus vector DB, hosting, and observability tiers. Token-per-run figures come from typical chat (~1.5k), RAG (~7k), and agentic (~30k) workloads. Build cost reflects real freelance engagement scope (foundation + the components you select). Prices verified June 2026: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Pinecone. API rates fluctuate — treat this as a planning estimate, not a quote.