AI & LLM
BuildvsBuyAICostCalculator
Model 3-year total cost of ownership for custom vs off-the-shelf AI stacks.
Interactive10 min
An interactive calculator that compares the real all-in cost of building an internal LLM stack against licensing OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, or Bedrock. Captures hidden costs (evals, observability, compliance, on-call) that vendor quotes conveniently leave out.
What's inside
- Side-by-side TCO for build, buy, and hybrid over 36 months
- Inputs for prompt volume, fine-tuning cadence, and team size
- Hidden-cost checklist: evals, guardrails, observability, SOC 2
- Break-even analysis showing when custom becomes cheaper than API
- Editable spreadsheet so you can plug in your own vendor quotes