AI Cost Reality Calculator · Formula 1.1.0
What does one usable AI business outcome actually cost?
Compare your current process with an AI-assisted version using five simple numbers.
You can complete the estimate in about one minute.
Quick Estimate
A decision-ready result, without the methodology homework.
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What the assumptions show
Attempts include failed, corrected, and unusable work. Successful outcomes met the required standard. Failure cost allocates annual AI cost evenly across all attempts.
Formula 1.1.0 · Directional estimate for planning.
Methodology · Formula 1.1.0
Five inputs, six transparent outputs.
This directional estimate compares like-for-like successful outcomes. It does not treat attempts, activity, or estimated hours as accepted business results.
- Current unit cost
- Current annual process cost ÷ annual successful outcomes completed today.
- AI cost per attempt
- Total annual AI-assisted cost ÷ expected AI-assisted attempts.
- Successful AI outcomes
- Expected attempts × expected success rate.
- AI unit cost
- Total annual AI-assisted cost ÷ successful AI outcomes. If no outcomes succeed, the result is “Not calculable.”
- Failed attempts
- Expected attempts − successful AI outcomes.
- Failure cost
- AI cost per attempt × failed attempts. This allocates annual cost evenly across attempts and is not an incremental-loss claim.