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06. Budget
HugoMoslener edited this page Oct 4, 2026
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Assumes an 8-month project (two semesters) with three small environments (dev, staging, demo) and no real production traffic. All figures are in CAD, rounded, and based on typical public pricing.
| Cost item | Purpose | Assumptions | Estimated cost | Free compute / credits | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| App hosting (API, agent workers, dashboard) | Platform core, agents, Command Center | 3 small containers/VMs, ~$40/mo × 8 | $320 | $200 | $120 |
| Managed Postgres + vector search | Brain, audit log, user data | 1 small DB, ~$20/mo × 8 | $160 | $160 | $0 |
| Object storage and backups | Documents, exports, DB backups | <50 GB, ~$5/mo × 8 | $40 | $0 | $40 |
| LLM API usage (build phase) | Brain ingestion and first-agent iteration | Anonymized data, mid-tier model | $300 | $150 | $150 |
| LLM API usage (evaluation) | Scoring output against human references | ~200 cases × multiple runs × 2–3 models | $200 | $100 | $100 |
| Embeddings | Brain retrieval indexing | Small corpus | $20 | $20 | $0 |
| Open-weight model evaluation (GPU) | Privacy-sensitive comparison | ~60 GPU-hours at ~$1.30/hr | $80 | $80 | $0 |
| CI/CD, monitoring, auth/email | Tests, logging, access control | Free tiers | $0 | n/a | $0 |
| Domain and TLS | Demo URL | 1 domain | $25 | $0 | $25 |
| Contingency (15%) | Overruns, price changes | $172 | $107 | $65 | |
| Total (infrastructure only) | $1,317 | $817 | $500 |