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Spend Planner.
Every token is getting cheaper. Most AI bills are going up. Put in your own seats, usage and people, and see the next 12 months of spend, the licences nobody opens, and what actually pays back.
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Cheaper tokens, bigger bills
cheaper a year
What the same level of AI capability costs to run, year on year. (Epoch AI, 2026)
to spend a year's budget
Uber's 2026 AI coding budget was gone by April. (Fortune, 2026)
of licences unused
The average across 40 million software licences. (Zylo, 2026)
Does a Copilot seat pay for itself?
Minutes saved a day 19 min
Seats people actually use 64%
Copilot at £24.70 a month, time at £28 an hour, 21 working days. 19 minutes is what DWP measured in its Copilot trial.
of time back for every £1 spent on seats
Each active user needs to save 3.9 minutes a day to cover their seat.
Five tools, your numbers
The spend planner
A 12-month forecast of seats and metered usage under three scenarios, with idle licence spend, payback, return and the first five things to do.
Seats or usage
The real cost per active user and the minutes a day each seat needs to save, tested against three UK government Copilot trials.
The cache lever
How much of an agent bill disappears when the model re-reads context from cache, compared with switching to a cheaper model.
Budget burn and the token counter
The month your AI budget runs out at today's pace and the cap that keeps you inside it. Plus a counter that shows what any prompt costs at scale.
Prices come from each provider's own price page, the time savings from published UK trials, and every assumption is labelled so you can change it. Want the thinking behind it? Read the article.
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