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Private AI vs per-seat ROI calculator.

Per-seat AI billing recurs in full for every user, every year. A private deployment is mostly a one-time cost with a small annual maintenance charge after that. Put in your own numbers and see the payback period and the multi-year return, in rupees. Nothing to install, no form in your way.

Percent per year, applied over the horizon.
Before GST. Choose a plan above or type your own.
Hardware, platform licence and implementation. Paid once.
AMC, support, power and a fraction of ops. Recurs each year.

 

 

Payback period
To recover the one-time cost
Net saving over horizon
Per-seat total minus private total
Return on private spend
Net saving as a % of private cost
Year Headcount Per-seat SaaS Private Running saving
Total over horizon

How it is modelled: per-seat cost = headcount × price × 12, grown each year by your headcount growth (and, if the plan is billed in dollars, re-priced by the rupee slide at each renewal). The private path is the one-time cost in year one plus an annual maintenance charge (your percentage of the one-time cost) in every year, including year one. Running saving is the cumulative per-seat spend minus the cumulative private spend, so payback is the point where it turns positive. GST at 18% is applied symmetrically to both when ticked. These are indicative figures to show the shape of the decision, not a quote. Read the full method in the TCO breakdown.

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