Agentic Cost Simulator
Three billing changes in 14 days broke the predictable AI budget. We shipped a free public tool that shows what your agent workloads will cost — by vendor, model, agent type, and scale — before the invoice lands.
June 1: GitHub Copilot moved to usage-based AI Credits. June 15: Anthropic split agent workloads onto separate metered credit pools at full API rates — no rollover. Microsoft 365 Copilot now has a parallel pay-as-you-go path for Chat and SharePoint agents.
The result: every enterprise CFO's AI budget is structurally unpredictable. Agentic workflows consume 5–30× more tokens per session than standard chatbot queries. A 50-turn coding session can hit ~1M input tokens. EY documented the baseline shift: a 2023 chatbot interaction cost $0.04. A 2026 orchestrated agentic session costs $1.20.
Nobody had a tool that shows enterprises what their agent workloads will cost before they approve them. PromptKing ships that tool today at /tools/agent-simulator — free, no login, live results in under 60 seconds.
What shipped in v3.67.0
- 6 vendors — Anthropic, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365, Agentforce, Bedrock, ServiceNow
- 5-step input flow — vendor → plan → agent type → model → scale
- Live results panel — monthly cost, credit runway, overage, routing savings
- URL share params — copy a link with full simulator state encoded
- Email capture — leads stored with simulator metadata for follow-up
Agent type token consumption (per session)
The key differentiator — most calculators model chatbot sessions. This models agent workloads.
| Agent type | Input | Output | Real-world benchmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 100K | 8K | Uber: $500–$2,000/engineer/month at 84% agentic adoption |
| Research | 80K | 15K | InfoWorld: ~$3,066/year per agent instance |
| Customer service | 15K | 3K | EY: $1.20/session vs $0.04 in 2023 (30× increase) |
| Data & ops | 50K | 10K | BCG: finance/ops agents median payback 8.9 months |
| SDR / sales | 20K | 5K | BCG: SDR agents median payback 3.4 months — fastest ROI |
| CI/CD pipeline | 250K | 20K | Anthropic June 15: CI/CD users most affected. No pooling. |
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What's next
Connect simulator estimates to actual PromptKing Seat Fleet — replace projections with live vendor sync data per seat.
FinOps X 2026 Tokenomics Foundation standard — cost-per-outcome, not cost-per-token. Dashboard KPI + CFO report block.
Programmatic credit ceilings per seat, policy triggers from simulator overage thresholds, and approval-queue enforcement.
See your monthly agent cost in 30 seconds
Vendor. Model. Agent type. Team size. No login.
Try the simulator →