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What does each answer cost?

Each answer has a price. If you don't measure it, you find out on the bill.

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What does each answer cost?

Free versions hide something: every question uses compute, and in a company that's paid per token. One answer costs little; thousands of users asking every day don't.

Move the controls and watch the cost change as users grow or answers get longer.

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Think of a task AI saves you. How many minutes? Multiply by your hourly value. That's the benefit to compare against cost.

Test yourself

What usually drives an assistant's cost up?

  1. The interface color
  2. Sending whole documents with every question
  3. The assistant's name
See the answer

Sending whole documents with every question. Everything sent in counts as tokens. Retrieving only useful paragraphs (RAG) lowers the bill.

If you lead a team

Ask for cost per answer and per user from the pilot. Scaling without that number is signing a blank check.

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