The office · What does AI really cost?
The subscription is the small number.
On the call, we would ask
- What is the quoted price, and what is it per: per person, per use, per month?
- Who inside would spend real hours on this, and what stops while they do?
- What does it cost you if nobody uses it after month three?
- What is the price in year two, when the introductory rate ends?
Learn it: free lessons
- Free or paid AI: what do you actually get?
- What is a token?
- What is inference?
- Build vs. buy AI: which makes sense?
- What should AI tools cost a small business each month?
- How much should an AI project cost?
- Are you paying for AI seats nobody uses?
- Cost per task vs. cost per token
- Subscription or pay-as-you-go: which AI pricing is cheaper for you?
- Model vs. effort
- What is model routing?
- What is prompt caching?
- What is batch processing?