VDF AI Savings Calculator

Estimate savings for a Cloud/SaaS AI stack or on-premises infrastructure. Adjust inputs to match your environment.

Your current AI stack

Team size (users)who use AI tools

Monthly LLM API spendAzure / OpenAI / GCP

Agent / orchestration toolLangSmith / n8n / etc.

ML / evaluation platformDataRobot / Braintrust

Chat / productivity toolsCopilot / ChatGPT Team

Other AI tooling / inframonitoring, security, etc.

VDF AI plan

$20/user/mo

Starter — Chat + basic agents

$50/user/mo

Professional — Full platform + MCP

Enterprise (e.g. unlimited seats, on-prem, custom deployments): commercial terms depend on deployment, scale, and support needs—discuss with our team to align pricing to your situation.

Your savings with VDF AI

Current annual spend

Across all AI tooling (excl. VDF)

VDF AI annual cost

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Annual saving

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Current stack

$0/yr

VDF AI (selected plan)

$0/yr

Savings compare annualized SaaS and API spend to the selected per-seat plan. Model-provider usage may still apply; routing is modeled separately.

Cost breakdown

Line item	Old annual cost	Replacement

Annual on-premises AI infrastructure

Energy (compute / GPU)LinUCB routing

Routing efficiency (energy reduction)30–65%

50%

DevOps & ML engineeringSEEMR governance

Model evaluationmanual / platform

Orchestration licencesAgentsHub / Networks

Downtime & incident costavailability risk

Other annual AI / platform spendno modeled reduction

Run-rate impact (before platform licence)

Current annual total

Sum of line items above

Projected run-rate after efficiencies

After modeled reductions

Operational savings vs status quo

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Current stack

$0/yr

After efficiency levers

$0/yr

VDF Enterprise platform fees depend on your deployment and contract scope—book a call to align net economics, including the platform component, to your environment.

Reduction breakdown

Category	Was (annual)	After reduction	Mechanism