ai_agent_cost
What an AI agent really costs
Monthly cost for real agent workloads, priced across Claude, GPT-4o, and Gemini with the agentic context tax baked in. Pick the use-case closest to yours for the full breakdown, then tune it to your numbers. Prices as of 2026-06.
Customer support agent
RAG over your help center, with a couple of account tools
$5,105/mo on Claude Sonnet
from $123/mo on Gemini 1.5 Flash
See the breakdownRAG chatbot
Document Q&A with retrieval, no tools
$133/mo on GPT-4o mini
from $67.65/mo on Gemini 1.5 Flash
See the breakdownCoding agent
Many tool calls, large context per request
$5,488/mo on Claude Sonnet
from $171/mo on Gemini 1.5 Flash
See the breakdownDocument extraction pipeline
Structured extraction at high volume, no tools
$369/mo on GPT-4o mini
from $185/mo on Gemini 1.5 Flash
See the breakdownText-to-SQL analytics agent
Schema-aware querying with a run-query tool
$2,270/mo on Claude Sonnet
from $55.28/mo on Gemini 1.5 Flash
See the breakdownContent summarization service
Summarize long inputs at high volume, no tools
$90.00/mo on Gemini 1.5 Flash
from $90.00/mo on Gemini 1.5 Flash
See the breakdownEmail triage agent
Classify and draft replies, light tools
$123/mo on GPT-4o mini
from $61.43/mo on Gemini 1.5 Flash
See the breakdownResearch agent
Web-search tools across many turns
$3,598/mo on Claude Sonnet
from $126/mo on Gemini 1.5 Flash
See the breakdownVoice assistant backend
Short turns at very high volume
$549/mo on GPT-4o mini
from $275/mo on Gemini 1.5 Flash
See the breakdown