About This Tool
This tool is designed to provide leaders with a reference point for capacity planning based on their existing organizational structure. It achieves this by estimating expected AI usage based on employee types and usage patterns, and comparing infrastructure costs.
Extensive research and a meta-analysis of third-party studies were conducted to understand market observations of AI consumption per employee type. This foundation enables a comparison of cloud reserved instance pricing versus on-premise infrastructure, highlighting where break-even points and expense ratios are observed.
This modeler is intentionally built to provide a high-level analysis of cost comparisons. Because component prices fluctuate, supplier discounts vary, and configurations differ, this baseline average serves as a starting point from which specific bills of materials can be subsequently analyzed.
The employee consumption usage relies on defaults collected from the meta-analysis, which can be modified. This flexibility is intended to help organizations tailor capacity estimates to their specific characteristics.
Employee Archetypes
Define AI usage characteristics per user role. The default values have been created based upon a meta analysis of existing research which has been done on different personas and their expected consumption. The intents are that as AI adoption increases over time, and becomes more a part of the organizational competencies, usage characteristics will evolve, and can better be measured, they can be updated in the tool below.
Workforce Sizing
Percentage of employees in each tier actively using AI.
| Archetype | Total Employees | Active Users |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 0 | 0 |
GPU Infrastructure Model
Auto-Sized Infrastructure
On-Premise Cost Ratios
Expressed as % of Cloud GPU Cost based on meta analysis of multiple published research studies. View Sources
Research Sources
Estimated Consumption & Cost
5-Year Cloud GPU
5-Year On-Prem
5-Year Savings
Break-Even Year
5-Year Annual Breakdown
| Year | Cloud GPU | On-Prem | Annual Delta | Cum. Cloud | Cum. On-Prem |
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View Monthly Diagnostics
| Tier | Users | Tokens/Mo | Cloud GPU Cost/Mo | % of Total |
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