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Cost & ROI

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Marcus Webb
CFO · Terravolt Energy
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Cost & ROI 📌 Pinned

Real numbers: our OpenClaw deployment cost $47K/month. Here is the breakdown.

I've seen a lot of vague claims about AI agent costs so I'm sharing our actual numbers from a 3-month production deployment.

Monthly breakdown:
- Compute (4x A100 GPUs): $18,400
- API calls to external LLMs: $12,300
- Storage & bandwidth: $3,200
- Engineering time (2 FTEs maintaining): $8,500
- Mon...
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Elena Vasquez
CFO · Cumulus Logistics
8 hours
Cost & ROI

Hidden cost nobody talks about: agent orchestration overhead

Everyone calculates compute and API costs. Nobody budgets for orchestration.

We spent 340 engineering hours in Q1 just debugging agent handoffs — situations where one agent passes work to another and context gets lost or corrupted.

At our loaded engineering cost, that's roughly $85K in unplanned s...
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