Estimator
Estimate your annual AI spend.
See your estimated annual spend across each route — API-only, managed reserved, self-hosted, and build your own — and which one fits your scale.
What are you sizing?
Running a model in production to answer requests. Sized by users and query volume.
Product type
Task complexity
Monthly active users
Usage per user per day
Your estimated annual spend
API-only
Recommended
$99K
Managed reserved
$357K
Self-hosted
$1.0M
Build your own
$3.1M
API-only fits your scale
At this scale, APIs deliver the lowest total cost once you factor in the engineering, ops, and compliance work needed to run alternatives. Revisit at 10x growth.
8 GPUs at peak · 15,000K queries/month · ~1,286 output tokens/sec per GPU
This is a rough directional estimate. Real decisions depend on latency needs, data residency, compliance, platform services, and team capacity. Inference figures assume decode throughput at realistic memory-bandwidth-bound efficiency, not theoretical peak.