Cost of building

Plug in your own numbers and watch where the cost actually lands.

Containers8

Compute rate / container-hour$0.10

Monthly token spend$300

Engineer fully-loaded salary$220,000

Engineers1

Engineer-year spent on infra15%

Compute: $7,00016%
Tokens: $3,6008%
Engineering time: $33,00076%

$43,600Annual cost to build

illustrativeEngineering time is 76% of the build, the cost that never lands on an invoice.

Compute = containers × rate × 24 × 365. Tokens = monthly × 12. Engineering = engineers × salary × infra%. Figures round to the nearest $100. Illustrative, not a quote.