What does AI really cost?

Every AI product leader faces the same blind spot: agentic workflows don't cost what the pricing page says. A single agent task can trigger 15+ LLM calls with compounding context windows, tool definition overhead, and retry loops — turning a $0.003 API call into a $0.15 operation. This calculator models what no other tool does: real context accumulation across multi-step agent loops, orchestration pattern multipliers, prompt caching savings, and per-component stack breakdowns. Load an interview-ready preset — Payments Copilot, Semantic Router, PII Proxy — and see exactly where every fraction of a cent goes, from embedding to generation to guardrails. Toggle between direct API and AWS Bedrock pricing. Export the numbers that make your business case.