AI Sales Assistant Cost per Task Calculator

1. Enter token usage

Provide average input and output tokens consumed by one attempt.

2. Add current token prices

Enter the contracted or public rate per one million input and output tokens.

3. Include infrastructure time

Enter accelerator or compute seconds per attempt and the all-in hourly infrastructure rate.

4. Add service fees

Include retrieval, search, database, observability, or other per-attempt charges when relevant.

5. Account for retries

Enter the share of attempts that must be repeated or do not yield an accepted completed task.

6. Review unit economics

Use cost per completed task for budgeting and compare the component costs to identify optimization opportunities.

Token cost = Input tokens ÷ 1,000,000 × Input price + Output tokens ÷ 1,000,000 × Output price
Infrastructure cost = Infrastructure seconds ÷ 3,600 × Hourly infrastructure cost
Cost per attempt = Token cost + Infrastructure cost + External fee
Attempts per completed task = 1 ÷ (1 − Retry rate)
Cost per completed task = Cost per attempt × Attempts per completed task

The retry adjustment assumes each attempt has approximately the same cost and that the entered retry rate is the fraction of attempts that do not become accepted completions.

What the result means

The main result is blended cost for one accepted completed task.

Use measured workload data and current provider or hardware benchmarks when available; production results may vary.

Given: 5,600 input tokens at $3/1M, 500 output tokens at $12/1M, 8.1 infrastructure seconds at $6.5/hour, a $0.002 external fee, and a 5% retry rate.

Calculation: Token cost = 5,600 ÷ 1,000,000 × $3 + 500 ÷ 1,000,000 × $12 = $0.0228. Infrastructure = 8.1 ÷ 3,600 × $6.5 = $0.0146. Attempt cost = $0.0228 + $0.0146 + $0.002 = $0.0394. Attempts per completion = 1 ÷ (1 − 0.05) = 1.053. Final cost = $0.0394 × 1.053 = $0.0415.

Result: The estimated cost is $0.0415 per completed task.