Use Case
Customer support bot cost calculator
Estimate support automation volume and see how quickly a high-usage inbox can move margin.
Default workload
These presets are meant to shorten planning time, and you can edit every assumption in the calculator below.
Lowest-cost model
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Balanced model
GPT-5.4 mini
Monthly active users
50,000
Optimization ideas
Practical ways to reduce cost or improve reliability for this workload.
- Keep response prompts concise so low-value tokens do not compound at scale
- Cache FAQ-heavy system prompts and reusable context
Calculator
Start from the preset, then tune it to your own workload.
Estimated monthly spend
$3,480
GPT-5.4 mini · OpenAI
Cost per request
$0.00232
Cost per user / month
$0.07
Cost per day
$116
Annual run rate
$41,764
Requests / month: 1,500,000
Effective input price: $0.75 / 1M
Effective cached input price: $0.075 / 1M
Effective output price: $4.50 / 1M
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