// cost calculator
What would yours cost?
Answer four questions, get an honest range — build cost and monthly running cost. No email gate, no sales call trigger. The numbers are calibrated to the ranges in our cost guide: real projects, not aspiration.
$— build, one-time
$— running, per month
How the numbers are made
Base build starts at $5,000 for a single-job automation and adds roughly $3,000 per additional system touched. High failure cost multiplies the estimate — verification layers, evals, and human-approval gates are where careful money goes. Messy input data adds extraction work. Running costs are model API usage (design matters more than volume) plus managed operation from $500/month if we operate it.
A range this simple can't price your actual project — it exists to tell you whether the conversation is a $6,000 one or a $30,000 one before you have it. When the high end crosses $40,000, you're building a product, and the conversation is different. Bring the result to studio@anchor163.com and we'll give you a real number for free.
Common questions
It produces a calibrated range, not a quote. It is tuned to real project ranges: scoped single-job automations at $5,000–$15,000 and multi-system agents at $15,000–$40,000, adjusted for integration count, failure cost, and data quality.
Three things: how many systems the automation touches, how expensive a wrong action is (which determines verification and human-approval layers), and how messy the input data is.
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