Model Deployment Cost Calculator

Model deployment spending across environments, teams, and scale. Tune assumptions, discounts, redundancy, and workloads quickly. Get clear totals, exports, and actionable optimization insights now.

Inputs

Use realistic values from your cloud bill, contracts, and team rates. Set unused fields to zero.

Examples: $, €, £, PKR

Workload & Compute

Compute is estimated from requests and average runtime.
Total inference calls or batch jobs per month.
Average end-to-end model compute time.
Blended instance cost, including accelerators.
Lower utilization increases provisioned hours.
High availability, multi-zone, and failover overhead.
Commitment savings applied to compute only.

Storage & Data Transfer

Include artifacts, logs, embeddings, and backups.
Models, containers, and weights storage.
Observability retention for logs and metrics.
Feature store, vectors, snapshots, or cache.
Blended storage rate across tiers.
Outbound traffic to apps, users, or other regions.
Use blended rate after free tiers.
Inbound data, prompts, documents, or media.
Often zero, but some networks charge ingress.

Platform Fees & Operations

Includes managed platform charges plus recurring tooling.
Managed endpoint base charge, if applicable.
Applied to compute + storage + network subtotal.
APM, logs analytics, traces, dashboards.
Scanning, secrets, audits, and policy tooling.
Pipelines, build minutes, and artifact storage.
Search, embedding index hosting, or RAG services.
Snapshots, cold storage, and retention.
Premium support plans or vendor SLAs.

Labor & Overhead

Use loaded rates including benefits and equipment.
On-call, maintenance, evaluations, and tuning.
Fully loaded cost per hour for engineering time.
Management, tools, admin, and shared services.

One-Time Setup (Amortized)

Spread setup effort across months for planning.
Initial deployment, hardening, and automation.
Typical planning windows are 6–24 months.

Tax or Surcharge

Optional. Enter zero if not applicable.
Applied to the subtotal.
Results appear above after submission.

Formula Used

This calculator estimates monthly cost by combining infrastructure, platform fees, operations, labor, and amortized setup effort.

Component Formula
Active compute hours Requests × RuntimeSeconds ÷ 3600
Provisioned compute hours ActiveHours ÷ Utilization
Compute cost ProvisionedHours × HourlyRate × Redundancy × (1 − Discount%)
Storage cost (ArtifactsGB + LogsGB + OtherGB) × StorageRate
Network cost EgressGB × EgressRate + IngressGB × IngressRate
Platform fee PlatformFlat + InfraSubtotal × PlatformPercent%
Operations cost Monitoring + Security + CI/CD + Retrieval + Backups + Support
Labor cost EngineerHours × LoadedRate
Overhead LaborCost × Overhead%
Amortized setup (SetupHours × LoadedRate) ÷ AmortMonths
Monthly total Subtotal + Subtotal × Tax%

Tip: If you provision fixed instances, set utilization to match average load, including idle time.

How to Use This Calculator

  1. Enter expected requests per month and average runtime.
  2. Set hourly compute rate and expected utilization.
  3. Add redundancy and any reserved commitment discount.
  4. Fill storage and data transfer based on retention and traffic.
  5. Include platform, tooling, and operations recurring charges.
  6. Add maintenance hours, loaded rates, and overhead percentage.
  7. Optionally amortize setup work across your planning horizon.
  8. Press Calculate to view totals and download exports.

Example Data Table

Sample scenarios to illustrate how inputs affect totals.

Scenario Requests/Month Runtime (sec) Hourly Rate Utilization Monthly Total (approx.)
Prototype 50,000 0.40 $1.20 0.35 $1,200
Production API 1,000,000 0.35 $2.50 0.45 $6,800
High Scale 10,000,000 0.25 $3.50 0.55 $52,000
These totals are illustrative only. Your environment and contracts can change costs significantly.

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