How much does a website chatbot cost?
Anywhere from free to thousands per month. Per-resolution AI pricing can reach ~$9,900/month at volume; a self-hosted open-weights model costs ~$1,000–1,500/month for one always-on GPU. Impact AI is flat: free, $29, or $99 per month.
- 1.Per-resolution pricing means your bill grows with your success — every conversation the AI handles costs more.
- 2.Self-hosting removes per-query fees but adds hardware, maintenance, and prompt engineering, and breakeven only arrives around 100M+ tokens/month — far beyond any FAQ workload.
- 3.A deterministic-hybrid chatbot answers most questions with a database lookup at near-zero marginal cost, which is why flat pricing is possible.
- 4.Impact AI: Starter free forever (1 bot, 100 interactions/month), Professional $29/month (3 bots, 2,500 interactions, embeds), Enterprise $99/month (unlimited bots, 10,000 interactions).
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