What does cloud AI really cost?
Subscriptions, tokens, rate limits, additional users. The real cost of cloud AI grows silently. Let's look at the numbers.
Calculation assumptions
10 users · average professional usage · time horizon 3 years · market prices updated to 2026 · amounts exclude VAT
Cloud AI (e.g. ChatGPT Team / Copilot)
10 users · 3 years
- Monthly subscription (≈ €100/user) ≈ €36,000
- Additional tokens and overage ≈ €2,400
- API integration / enterprise plugins ≈ €1,200
- Compliance and external audit costs ≈ €1,500
- Data breach / reputational risk unquantifiable
isolAIted
10 users · 3 years
- isol Team licence (10 seats × 3 years) €9,000
- Dedicated hardware €7,000 – €10,000
- Initial setup and configuration one-time
- Cost per query / additional tokens €0
- Maintenance and updates (3 years) €0
Estimated savings
≈ €22,100 – €25,100
Over a 3-year horizon, with 10 users at €100/month of cloud subscription, against 10 isol Team seats plus the hardware. The cost per query stays at zero: what you pay does not depend on how much you use the system. The cloud, instead, grows with you.
When does isolAIted pay for itself?
Select your deployment scenario and enter your current spending. We calculate the break-even point — the exact month isolAIted starts saving you money.
1 — Choose your scenario
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2 — Choose your isolAIted edition
The isol Connect and isol Team licence is annual: shown here per month so you can compare it with a cloud subscription. Amounts exclude VAT.
3 — Your current AI subscription spend
4 — Your break-even point
Current monthly spend
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in cloud subscriptions
Break-even
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from that month you save
Net savings 3 years
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after hardware
The hidden costs of cloud AI
Grows with usage
The more your company adopts AI, the bigger the bill. With isolAIted the marginal cost is zero, regardless of volume.
Silent vendor lock-in
Migrating from a cloud provider is costly and risky. Your prompts, integrations, and workflows become dependent.
Unquantifiable risk
A data breach, a policy change, a unilateral price change: the cloud introduces variables outside your control.
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isolAIted is free. The only cost is the hardware you already own or buy once.