What is the AI markup costing you?
Tools like Intercom charge $0.99 per Fin outcome. The model behind that answer costs cents on a key you own. Drag the sliders to your volume, see the gap, and have the breakdown emailed to you.
Pennies with your own key. A short support reply is a few hundred tokens. Drag to match your provider.
Compares metered per-outcome AI billing to bringing your own key. Seat pricing is separate and flat either way. Intercom bills at most one outcome per conversation.
Why the metered model punishes you
Per-outcome pricing means your bill scales with your own success. Automate more, pay more, forever. It’s a tax on the exact outcome you bought the tool for.
Why bringing your own key fixes it
The AI bill goes straight to your provider at cost. We never see it, mark it up, or meter it. Your Kerux price is one flat number per agent, so volume never moves it.
Control your AI key, and you control your support costs. This month and every month after.