Live calculator · updated for 2026 pricing

See how much you save with AI Employees.

Plug in your team size, your monthly salary cost, your daily enquiry volume and your current response time. Watch the cost-over-time, coverage and response-time deltas update live. Honest math, your numbers.

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120+
$4,200 / mo
$500$20k
150 / day
102,000
70 hrs
20168 (24/7)
30 min
1 min3 hrs+
You save over 3 years
$425,200SGD
Best fit for your inputs: Growth tier · $6,800 setup + $600/mo
Cost over 36 months SGD, cumulative
Human team: $453,600 · AI deployment: $28,400
Coverage gain hours / week
After-hours leads / year 16,425
Reaches leads in the ~30% of enquiries that arrive outside your hours.
Speed to lead first reply
Your team 30min
AI employee <30sec
Faster by 60×
Public speed-to-lead research (Drift, HBR): replying inside 5 min makes a lead ~21× more likely to qualify than waiting 30 min.

Where the gap shows up.

Cost is one axis. Coverage, consistency and recovery are the others. AI employees do not replace a senior human; they amplify the team you already have.

Human team
AI employee
Monthly cost
SGD $4,200+ per person, plus CPF, training, attrition
From SGD $300/mo retainer, one-time setup, no headcount overhead
Hours covered
~45 / week. After-hours leads cool, weekend leads sit unread
168 / week (24×7). Replies through holidays, after midnight, weekends
Speed to reply
Minutes to hours. Drops further when the team is mid-call or off-shift
Under 30 seconds, every time, regardless of inbox volume
Scale per hour
~10 concurrent conversations before quality degrades
Unlimited concurrent conversations with no quality drop
Consistency
Varies by mood, fatigue, who is on duty, what was just said
Same answer to the same question every time. Drift caught in retainer
Onboarding time
2 to 3 months to ramp on stack, products, tone, objections
2 to 4 weeks from kickoff to launch including training and post-launch tune
Leave / sick / quit
Annual leave, sick days, MC, eventual resignation, knowledge loss
No leave, no sick days, knowledge persists; we patch and improve in-place
Languages
Limited by who is on shift. English plus maybe 1 local language
English, Mandarin, Malay, Bahasa, Tagalog, Thai and more, switching mid-chat
Reporting
Manual exports, conversation samples reviewed weekly at best
Every conversation logged, tagged and reviewable; monthly tuning report
Where humans win
High-value objections, closing on the call, deep relationships, judgment calls
Augmentation only. Hand-off rules route the 60-70% nuance cases to your humans

Three tiers. Recommended one highlights with your inputs.

All tiers include AI training on your products, WhatsApp Business API approval, CRM integration and a post-launch optimisation window. Retainer kicks in after the optimisation window ends.

Recommended for you

Starter

$3,800 setup
then $300/mo retainer
  • 1 AI employee
  • Up to 3 channels
  • Core CRM integration
  • 30 days post-launch support
Recommended for you

Growth

$6,800 setup
then $600/mo retainer
  • Up to 5 AI employees
  • Up to 8 channels
  • Advanced lead routing
  • Full CRM integration
  • 60 days optimisation
Recommended for you

Accelerate

$14,800 setup
then $800/mo retainer
  • Up to 10 AI employees
  • Unlimited channels
  • Multi-location routing
  • Dedicated account manager
  • 90 days optimisation

Need unlimited employees, custom infrastructure or a real SLA? See the Enterprise tier on /pricing. Full pricing details, add-ons and FAQs on /pricing.

Honest about what they are

An AI employee gets you about 60-70% of a senior human's judgment, not 100%. We do not pretend otherwise. What you do get: they work 24/7/365, never take leave, never quit, and cost a fraction per conversation. Use them on the volume work. Keep your humans for the nuance.

Common questions about the numbers.

A typical Singapore sales or front-desk hire costs around SGD $4,200 per month once you include CPF and prorated bonuses, or about $50,400 per year. Our Growth tier covers up to 5 AI employees for SGD $6,800 setup plus $600 per month retainer, roughly $14,000 in year one and $7,200 per year after. The headline math is that one AI deployment typically beats one human salary inside the first quarter, and the gap compounds from year two onwards.

Under 30 seconds, 24 hours a day. Public speed-to-lead research from Drift and Harvard Business Review shows that responding to a new lead within 5 minutes makes them roughly 21 times more likely to qualify than waiting 30 minutes. Most human teams average 30 minutes to several hours on inbound WhatsApp; AI employees collapse that to seconds.

No, and we say so plainly. An AI employee gets you around 60 to 70 percent of a senior human's judgment, not 100 percent. The model that works in production is amplification: AI employees handle the volume work (instant replies, after-hours coverage, FAQ, scheduling, follow-ups, qualification) so your humans can focus on the nuance work that converts (objection handling, high-value calls, relationships). The savings number on this page reflects that division of labour.

Training the AI employee on your products, tone, hours and sales process; WhatsApp Business API approval; CRM integration with your existing stack; and a post-launch optimisation window of 30 to 90 days depending on tier, where we review real transcripts and tune the agent before the retainer kicks in. After the window, the retainer covers monitoring, prompt updates, and ongoing tuning as your offers, hours and inventory change.

The defaults reflect a Singapore SME baseline (SGD $4,200/mo per person, 9 to 5 coverage). Every input is editable, so plug in your local market salary and operating hours and the savings number will reflect your reality. Our pricing is in SGD; clients across Southeast Asia, Australia and beyond run on the same tiers.

An industry-typical 30% of B2C SME enquiries arrive outside standard business hours (evenings, weekends, public holidays). The number on the calculator is your daily volume × 30% × 365 days, representing the enquiries that currently sit unanswered until your team is back, and that an AI employee replies to instantly. If your business is heavily evening-skewed (F&B, fitness, beauty) the real number is often higher.

Like the numbers? Let's pressure-test them on your business.

Send us your real volume, hours and team setup. We will run the math against your stack, sanity-check the assumptions, and tell you which tier (or no tier) makes sense.