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- Compliance EU AI Act risk categories: which tier is your system in, and by when? Answer nine questions to see which EU AI Act risk tier your system falls into, and when rules apply. Open the calculator →
- Build cost AI agent development cost estimator: what it costs to build an agent Get a cost range for building an AI agent, plus what it costs to run for a year. Open the calculator →
- ROI AI ROI calculator for automation and agents Subtract build and running costs from the hours an agent saves to see payback and three-year ROI. Open the calculator →
- Caching Anthropic prompt caching pricing calculator: break-even and monthly savings See when prompt caching pays off and how much it saves each month. Open the calculator →
- Support cost Cost per task AI agent calculator: per ticket and per resolution Compare cost per ticket for a custom agent, a per-resolution vendor and a human team. Open the calculator →
- Model cost LLM cost calculator for agent workloads Work out monthly LLM API spend for an agent from tasks, calls per task, tokens and caching. Open the calculator →
- Build vs buy Build vs buy AI agents: 3-year TCO calculator Compare three-year cost of a vendor platform, an in-house team and a scoped build. Open the calculator →
- Governance SR 26-2 generative AI model risk management readiness score Score a bank's generative AI model risk readiness in 12 questions. Open the calculator →
- Risk Cost of AI hallucinations: exposure calculator for regulated firms Estimate what AI mistakes cost a regulated team in checking, rework and incidents. Open the calculator →
- Migration GPT-5.5 retirement October 14: model migration cost estimator Estimate the hours and eval work needed to move an agent to a new model. Open the calculator →
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