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 Chat

Balanced model

GPT-5.4 mini

Default MAU

50,000

Optimization ideas

These notes are static guidance tied to the selected use case.

  • 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.

Workload preset
Model

Estimated monthly spend

$3,480

GPT-5.4 mini · OpenAI

Cost per request

$0.00

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: $0.08 / 1M

Effective output price: $4.50 / 1M

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