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What would yours cost?
Answer five questions to get a build cost and a monthly running cost. There is no email gate. The numbers follow the ranges in our cost guide.
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$— build, one-time
$— running, per month
How the numbers are made
A single-job automation starts at $5,000, and each additional system it touches adds about $4,500. High failure cost multiplies the estimate, because verification, evals and human-approval gates are where careful money goes. Messy input data adds extraction work. A platform counts once, even when it syncs several things. If the build calls an AI model, running cost includes model usage, where design matters more than volume. If it doesn't, running cost is hosting, about $0–$25 a month. We can watch a quiet job and fix breaks for $400 a month. Full operation is $800 a month for one automation and $1,500–$3,000 for a multi-system stack.
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 $60,000, 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 uses the same arithmetic as our blueprint desk: single-job automations from $5,000–$15,000 and multi-system agents at $15,000–$40,000, adjusted for integration count, failure cost, data quality, and whether an AI model is in the loop.
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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