AI agent cost calculator: credits, conversations or BYOK
Enter your monthly AI tasks and conversations. Compare Agentforce's three pricing models with SalesCrew's included allowance and bring-your-own-key.
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Your AI workload, priced four ways
Enter your monthly volumes. Agentforce figures are Salesforce's September 2026 list prices.
| Pricing model | How it adds up | AI cost a month |
|---|---|---|
| Agentforce, Flex Credits | 5,000 actions × 20 credits at $500 per 100,000 | $500 |
| Agentforce, per conversation | 1,000 conversations × $2 | $2,000 |
| Agentforce, per-user add-on | 5 users × $125 | $625 |
| SalesCrew Core, included allowance | Covered by the Core allowance of about 5,000 calls | $0 |
| SalesCrew with your own Anthropic key | $99 a month, plus your own Anthropic bill | $99 |
SalesCrew Core is $299 a month with unlimited seats, and the AI allowance comes inside that price. When the cap is hit, only AI pauses until you top up.
The short answer
- AI agent cost = monthly volume × the vendor's unit price. The unit is what differs: a credit per action, a conversation, a user, or a model call.
- Salesforce prices Agentforce at $500 per 100,000 Flex Credits with 20 credits per action, $2 per conversation, or $125 per user a month, checked September 2026.
- SalesCrew includes about 5,000 model calls a month in Core at $299, 25,000 in Outbound and 60,000 in Agency, with unlimited seats on each.
- Bring your own Anthropic key to SalesCrew for $99 a month and your calls never touch the allowance.
How the calculator works
Every line is plain arithmetic, so you can check it by hand:
- Flex Credits = AI tasks × 20 credits × $500 ÷ 100,000, which is $0.10 per action.
- Per conversation = conversations × $2.
- Per-user add-on = users × $125.
- SalesCrew included allowance = top-ups × $10, where top-ups = (AI tasks − plan allowance) ÷ 1,000, rounded up, and zero inside the allowance.
- SalesCrew with your own key = $99 + AI tasks ÷ 1,000 × your own cost per 1,000 calls.
The tool counts one agent action as one model call on both sides, and one top-up credit as one call. Enter your own volumes from your inbox and pipeline: emails a month, deals that move, contacts you score.
AI pricing models, side by side
Each vendor's own pricing page, read in September 2026.
| Vendor and model | Unit | List price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agentforce Flex Credits | Per action (20 credits; voice actions 30) | $500 per 100,000 credits | salesforce.com/agentforce/pricing |
| Agentforce conversations | Per customer conversation | $2 per conversation | salesforce.com/agentforce/pricing |
| Agentforce per-user add-on | Per user a month | $125; Industries add-ons $150 | salesforce.com/agentforce/pricing |
| Agentforce 1 Editions | Per user a month | From $550, with 2.5M Flex Credits per org a year | salesforce.com/agentforce/pricing |
| HubSpot Breeze agents | HubSpot Credits per agent task | Rate listed on hubspot.com | hubspot.com Agent Hub page |
| SalesCrew included allowance (our product) | Model calls a month | About 5,000 in Core at $299; top-ups $10 per 1,000 credits | salescrew.io/pricing |
| SalesCrew bring-your-own-key (our product) | Your Anthropic account | $99 a month; allowance not consumed | salescrew.io/pricing |
Figures checked on salesforce.com/agentforce/pricing and hubspot.com, September 2026. SalesCrew prices from salescrew.io/pricing.
Where the model calls pile up
Two features drive most of the volume: reply drafting and anything that runs over every record. A summary made once per deal is cheap. A classifier reading every inbound message all day is where the calls add up.
- Rules before models. A rule that catches out-of-office replies costs nothing, so the model only sees the rest.
- Score fewer records, less often. Rescoring the whole database every night multiplies your calls by your record count.
- Pick the model class per feature. Use a fast model for labels and a stronger one for drafts.
- Bring your own key. Your spend runs on your own Anthropic account at your own rates.
Cap it before you forecast it
Questions
- How much does an AI agent cost per month?
- Multiply your volume by the vendor's unit price. At Salesforce's September 2026 list prices, 5,000 Agentforce actions cost $500 in Flex Credits, and 1,000 customer conversations cost $2,000. On SalesCrew Core, about 5,000 model calls a month come inside the $299 plan.
- What is the difference between credits and per-conversation pricing?
- Credits charge per action an agent takes, so cost follows how much work it does. Per-conversation pricing charges a flat $2 per customer conversation on Agentforce, however many actions it holds. Pick the model that matches the volume you can predict.
- When does bringing your own key make sense?
- When your volume runs well past your plan's allowance, or you already buy model usage at your own rates. On SalesCrew, BYOK is $99 a month, calls on your key never draw down the allowance, and your Anthropic account is billed directly.
- What happens when the AI allowance runs out?
- On SalesCrew, you get an alert at 80% and a hard stop at 100% for AI only. Cadences, the inbox and manual work keep running. A top-up of 1,000 credits costs $10.
Get AI inside the plan price
SalesCrew Core is $299 a month with about 5,000 model calls included and unlimited seats.
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