Every value below is yours to set — the defaults are only illustrations. This is the math to pressure-test any vendor's pricing against question 5.
Your numbers
Human cost per task—
Human cost per month—
Agent effective cost / completed task*—
Agent cost per month—
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estimated monthly difference
*Effective cost = vendor price + the platform fee spread over your volume + the human minutes spent reworking failed tasks. If a vendor cannot walk you through this math for your volume, that is the question-5 red flag. No benchmarks are baked in; the output is only as honest as your inputs.