Agent Cost Calculator
What it does
A planning tool that projects twelve months of revenue, cost, margin, and profit for an agent, with a usage histogram and inputs you can push around.
Why it matters
Find out whether your pricing survives a heavy-usage cohort before you launch it, not after the first invoice.
How it works
The calculator takes four groups of inputs and projects twelve months from them.
- 1. Model cost basis
- Pick the model. Costs come from real Pickaxe usage analytics — median cost per 100 interactions, sampled across actual runs — rather than list prices.
- 2. Audience and usage
- Paid customers, free users per month, and the price you charge.
- 3. Included limits
- Whether the cap is credits or uses, the paid and free allowances, and interactions per session.
- 4. Pricing and fees
- Your markup on extra credits, and which Pickaxe plan you are on, with its payment fee.
Out the other side: annual revenue, cost, and profit with a margin figure, a monthly revenue-and-expense chart from zero to your estimated user base, and a histogram of paid-user usage that marks where users cross the included cap and start buying extra credits.
The histogram is the part worth staring at. Pricing usually survives the average customer and dies on the tail, and the tail is invisible until you have one.