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What would AI actually cost your business?

AI companies charge by the "token", which tells most people nothing. Pick the jobs you'd hand off and see the monthly bill, what it buys, and what the same work costs by hand.

2 minutesReal list prices, Oct 2026No sign-up to see results
Step 1 · The unit

A token is about three-quarters of a word.

AI reads and writes in small chunks of text called tokens. Type anything below and watch it get chopped up. You pay a little for every token it reads, and a bit more for every token it writes.

How the AI sees it (each colour is one token, roughly)

Words0
Tokens0
To read it (everyday model)0¢
To write it0¢
Step 2 · A sense of scale

Reading a whole novel costs about a quarter.

Some everyday things, measured in tokens, with what it costs an AI to read each one once on an everyday model. The bars use a stretched scale so the small things stay visible.

Step 3 · Your month

Pick the jobs you'd hand off.

Each estimate includes the extra reading AI does behind the scenes: your price list, past emails, the calendar. Set how often each job happens in a month. Zero turns it off.

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The honest part: the AI is the cheap part. Real bills run higher than these estimates because AI rereads more than you'd think, and a big building day can use ten times a normal one. Most owners we set up spend $30–100 a month on their own AI plan. You pay that straight to the AI company, in your name; Suprsuit never marks it up. What costs real money is the setup that makes AI do these jobs reliably, on its own, every day. That's the part I do.

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Prices are list prices per million tokens in October 2026: light model $0.10 to read and $0.50 to write; everyday $2 and $10; most capable $4 and $20. Token sizes use the common rule of about 1.33 tokens per English word (OpenAI; iternal.ai Token Usage Guide 2026). Per-job estimates include typical agent overhead (system instructions, tool calls and context) and assume no caching discount. Hand-work times are our estimates for a small business.