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Validated cloud cost analysis for enterprise AI deployment
Scenario: 6,000 API calls/month | 40 employees | Production + staging
01 — Introduction & applicability
Introduction & applicability
This detailed cost analysis shows the real cloud infrastructure costs for a production-ready AI agent with 6,000 API calls per month. The calculation is based on validated 2025 market prices and is identical to our cost calculator.
02 — Calculation basis
Calculation basis
- 40 employees, 5 requests each per working day
- 30 working days = 6,000 requests/month
- On average 25,000 input tokens and 1,000 output tokens per request
- Large knowledge base with 5,000+ embedded documents
- Production + staging (best practice for enterprise)
- 99.9 % uptime SLA with full monitoring
03 — Core services
Core services
| Service | Provider | Calculation | Cost/month |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-4o API | OpenAI | 6,000 × (25K input × $2.50/1M + 1K output × $10/1M) | $435.00 |
| Embedding API | OpenAI | 5,000 docs × 2K tokens × $0.13/1M | $1.30 |
| Vector database | Pinecone Serverless | 5 GB × $0.33 + reads + writes | $3.10 |
| Workflow automation | n8n Cloud | Pro plan | $50.00 |
| Subtotal core services | $489.40 |
04 — Infrastructure & compute
Infrastructure & compute
| Service | Provider | Calculation | Cost/month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serverless compute | AWS Lambda | 6,000 × 3 s × $0.0000166667/GB-s | $0.30 |
| API gateway | AWS API Gateway | 6,000 requests × $3.50/1M | $0.02 |
| PostgreSQL | Supabase | Pro plan (8 GB RAM, 50 GB storage) | $25.00 |
| Object storage | AWS S3 | 80 GB × $0.023/GB + GET requests | $1.96 |
| Redis cache | Upstash | Pay-as-you-go (10K commands/day) | $10.00 |
| Subtotal infrastructure | $37.28 |
05 — Network, monitoring, security & operations
Network, monitoring, security & operations
| Area | Services | Cost/month |
|---|---|---|
| Network & CDN | AWS Data Transfer, Cloudflare Pro | $50.00 |
| Monitoring | Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty | $62.00 |
| Security | AWS WAF, Let’s Encrypt, Secrets Manager | $6.00 |
| Auth & communication | Auth0, SendGrid, Twilio | $45.50 |
| Operations | GitHub Actions, AWS Backup, CloudWatch | $33.60 |
| Staging environment | 25 % of production costs | $180.95 |
| Total | $905.00 |
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