Use case
Estimate per-engineer and per-team cost of AI coding assistants.
Code generation workloads are output-heavy, context-aware and persistent. Modern copilots stream 2K–8K tokens per accepted suggestion and 10K–40K per multi-file refactor.
Tokens / event
3K – 40K
Events / user / day
60 – 200
Typical cost range
$30 – $250 per engineer / month
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$15.2K
Total token OpEx for 50 employees · Claude Sonnet 4
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- Claude Sonnet 4 cost calculator — $3 in / $15 out per 1M tokens.
- GPT-5 cost calculator — $5 in / $15 out per 1M tokens.
Frequently asked questions
›How do I budget for AI coding assistants?
Start at $50 per engineer per month for interactive copilots; add $50–$150 per engineer per month if you deploy background agents (PR review, test generation).
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