Rough monthly and year-1 cost estimate for a production GenAI system. Token costs are vendor-listed; infra and human-review numbers come from our own projects.
Total LLM calls, including chat turns
System prompt + RAG context + user message
Typical assistant response size
Pricing as of 2026
Typical production systems hit 15–40% with a good cache
Eval review + prompt tuning time
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