A Tiny Cost Model for LLM + WhatsApp Automations (Bring Your Own Rates)
I'm a builder at NxFlowAI, a Mumbai AI automation agency. This post contains no vendor prices on purpose. Prices change, and I don't want you copying a number from me. You supply the rates from each provider's own pricing page. When people ask what AI automation costs Indian small businesses, they usually get a range. A range hides the useful part: which lines scale with volume and which don't.…
In this story, a builder at NxFlowAI, a Mumbai AI automation agency, explains how to model the costs of Large Language Model (LLM) and WhatsApp automation for Indian small businesses. The author emphasizes the importance of using each provider's own pricing information rather than relying on a range. To demonstrate, they provide a small script that breaks down the monthly bill into three categories: fixed costs, per message costs, and per AI call costs.
The script takes into account the number of enquiries, messages sent, and the cost per AI call based on input and output tokens. The result is a clear view of how a monthly bill may change if enquiries double.
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