AI Unit Economics Guides

Use these guides to understand cost drivers, choose better assumptions, and interpret calculator outputs.

Learn how pricing, usage, retrieval, and model choices shape support, docs, copilot, and research workflows.

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Foundations

Start here for AI unit economics, RAG, and agent concepts plus a shared cost vocabulary.

What Is AI Unit Economics?What Is an AI Agent?What Is RAG?RAG Cost Components Explained

Cost Drivers

Understand which prompt, retrieval, reranking, and cache inputs move cost fastest.

How Many Tokens Per Request?Context Bloat in RAG What Is Reranking in RAG?What Cache Hit Rate Means for RAG How To Choose Chunk Size and Chunk Count

Pricing and Margin

Turn modeled cost into break-even prices and gross-margin decisions.

How To Estimate Requests Per User/Month How Much Does an AI Agent Cost?How To Price an AI Agent How to Calculate the Break-even Point for AI Workflows Model Selection: Quality vs Unit Cost RAG Break-even Price per Seat How Model Switching Changes Margin RAG vs Long-Context: Cost Tradeoffs

Use Cases

Apply the model to support, docs, copilot, and research scenarios.

AI Support Agent Cost per Ticket AI Support Deflection Rate AI Docs Assistant Cost per User Internal Copilot Cost per Employee Codebase Copilot Cost per Developer AI Research Assistant Cost per Report Deep Research Cost per Seat AI Analyst Workflow Cost per Analyst

Need a calculator?

Use the decision tools when you are ready to model a workflow scenario with explicit inputs.