# AI Cost Calculator — How Much Is Per-Seat AI Costing You?

> Source: https://ibl.ai/ai-cost-calculator

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85% Average Cost Reduction

How Much Is Per-Seat AI Costing You?

Enter your numbers. See exactly what you'd save by switching from per-seat AI licensing to ibl.ai's usage-based model.

## Your Setup

### Configure Your Institution

Tell us about your current AI usage — we'll calculate your savings.

#### Number of Users

User presets: 100, 500, 1,000, 2,500, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000

Slider range: 50 – 50,000

#### Current AI Spend

Choose: Select Vendor or Custom $/User

##### Vendor Options

- **OpenAI** — ChatGPT Team — $25/user/mo
- **OpenAI** — ChatGPT Enterprise — $60/user/mo (Estimated)
- **Microsoft** — Copilot for Microsoft 365 — $30/user/mo
- **Google** — Gemini Business — $20/user/mo
- **Google** — Gemini Enterprise — $30/user/mo
- **Anthropic** — Claude Team — $25/user/mo
- **Anthropic** — Claude Enterprise — $30/user/mo (Estimated)
- **Perplexity** — Enterprise Pro — $40/user/mo
- **Glean** — Enterprise — $25/user/mo (Estimated)
- **Boodlebox** — Institution — $15/user/mo (Per student)
- **CollegeVine** — AI Platform — $20/user/mo (Per student)
- **Element451** — AI Suite — $12/user/mo (Per student)

##### Custom $/User

Enter a custom dollar amount per user / month.

#### Deployment Preference

- **Cloud (SaaS)** — Hosted by ibl.ai
- **On-Premise** — Your servers
- **Hybrid** — Best of both

## Your Savings

### Projected Cost Comparison

#### Current Vendor (Per-Seat)

- Monthly cost
- Annual cost
- Calculation: [number of users] users x $[per-user cost]/user/month

#### ibl.ai Pro or Enterprise (Flat Rate)

- Monthly cost
- Annual cost

##### Cost Breakdown (Pro)

$250/mo base + estimated LLM usage:

- ~$1/user/mo (~20 sessions, ~8K tokens each)
- Unlimited agents, auto-recharge LLM

##### Cost Breakdown (Enterprise)

Enterprise annual license starting at $50,000/yr + estimated LLM usage:

- ~$1/user/mo (~20 sessions, ~8K tokens each)
- Full code ownership, deploy on your infra

#### Savings Banner

- Annual Savings
- Cost Reduction (%)
- Monthly Savings

That's [annual savings] your institution can reinvest in teaching, research, and student support every year.

#### If Savings Are Comparable

At this scale, ibl.ai's cost is comparable. But you still get unlimited users, full code ownership, and any-LLM flexibility that per-seat tools can't offer.

## Comparison

### [Number of Users] Users — All Vendors Compared

See how ibl.ai stacks up against every major AI platform at your scale.

#### ibl.ai (Flat Rate)

- Plan: Pro or Enterprise — Flat Rate
- Monthly cost
- Annual cost
- Per User cost

#### Competitor Rows

Each vendor row shows:

- Vendor name and plan
- Monthly cost
- Annual cost
- Savings percentage vs. ibl.ai

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## Report

### Get Your Custom Savings Report

Submit your details and we'll send a detailed breakdown with TCO analysis, migration timeline, and ROI projections.

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## How the AI Cost Calculator works

See what your organization would save by switching from per-seat AI licensing to ibl.ai's usage-based model.

The calculator totals your current annual AI spend by headcount, then compares it with ibl.ai's usage-based cost. Because you pay for actual usage instead of seats, your cost per user stays low as your team grows rather than climbing with every new seat.

It benchmarks the per-seat plans organizations evaluate most — OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic — against ibl.ai's usage-based model.

You only need two inputs: your total headcount and the per-user price of the AI tools you license today. Pick a vendor from the list or enter a custom rate, choose a deployment model, and the projected savings update instantly.

The figures are planning estimates, not a quote. Per-seat costs use publicly listed vendor rates; the ibl.ai side reflects usage-based pricing — roughly $1 per user per month of typical LLM usage, with no per-seat fee. Your real number depends on usage and deployment.

### AI Cost Calculator FAQ

**How accurate is the AI cost calculator?**

It uses published per-seat vendor pricing and ibl.ai's usage-based pricing to produce a planning-grade estimate. For an exact figure tied to your your organization usage and deployment, request a custom savings report from the form on the page.

**What's included in ibl.ai's pricing?**

Unlimited users and agents, any-LLM flexibility, and full source-code and data ownership. Self-serve is usage-based — start free, then prepaid credits (about $1/user/month of typical LLM usage) with no per-seat fees; Enterprise covers on-premise or large deployments, with pilots from $15K.

**Can we deploy on our own servers?**

Yes. ibl.ai runs in our cloud, in your VPC, on-premise, or fully air-gapped — you own all the code and data, so your organization workloads can stay entirely on your own infrastructure.

### Related resources

- [AI Readiness Assessment](/ai-readiness-assessment)
- [ibl.ai usage-based pricing](/pricing)
- [ibl.ai Agentic OS platform](/product/agentic-os)
- [Build vs. Buy analysis](/build-vs-buy)
- [Talk to the ibl.ai team](/contact)

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