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Self-assessment · v0.1

Where your AI budget actually goes.

Estimate monthly inference spend across four common enterprise functions, then see how frontier labs compare to sovereign and self-hosted open weights, energy included. A directional model, useful in five minutes.

your monthly task volume
Adjust the sliders
Legal & contracts
Contract review, clause extraction, compliance memos.
800
tasks / mo
12k in · 4k out per task
Marketing & creative
Briefs, variants, multi-channel copy, campaign QA.
3,500
tasks / mo
3k in · 6k out per task
HR & compliance
Policy Q&A, screening, internal comms, training.
1,200
tasks / mo
5k in · 2k out per task
Coding & app dev
Codegen, refactors, test scaffolds, code review.
5,000
tasks / mo
8k in · 10k out per task
Estimated monthly inference
Opus 4.8
Frontier · US
$6.7k/mo
Deepseek 4
Sovereign EU cloud
$186/mo
Qwen 3.5
Self-hosted · your DC
$184/mo
97% cheaper, self-hosted.
Energy included. Excludes one-off GPU capex and ops overhead, we model that in the working session.
cost is half the story, scroll for performance by task.
Per-function breakdown

Cost and intelligence, side by side.

For each function, we show monthly cost per model and a directional performance score. The right answer is rarely the cheapest, it's the cheapest model that clears the quality bar for that task.

Legal & contracts

800 tasks/mo
Opus 4.8
$384
perf 96
Deepseek 4cheapest
$11
perf 86
Qwen 3.5
$15
perf 82

Marketing & creative

3,500 tasks/mo
Opus 4.8
$1.7k
perf 95
Deepseek 4
$47
perf 84
Qwen 3.5cheapest
$43
perf 80

HR & compliance

1,200 tasks/mo
Opus 4.8
$270
perf 94
Deepseek 4cheapest
$7.8
perf 85
Qwen 3.5
$9.9
perf 84

Coding & app dev

5,000 tasks/mo
Opus 4.8
$4.3k
perf 97
Deepseek 4
$120
perf 92
Qwen 3.5cheapest
$117
perf 86
Cost is per-token, all-in.
Includes EU energy approximation for self-hosted; excludes GPU capex and SRE time.
Performance is directional.
Subjective 0–100 quality index per task class. To be refined with field benchmarks.
Volumes are yours to set.
Defaults reflect a mid-size enterprise. Adjust to your reality.
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