{
  "calculator": "ai-product-margin-calculator",
  "title": "AI Product Margin Calculator",
  "site": "AI Biz Hub",
  "input": {},
  "defaults_used": {
    "subscription_price": 29,
    "avg_api_calls_per_day": 20,
    "avg_input_tokens": 500,
    "avg_output_tokens": 1000,
    "input_cost_per_million": 2,
    "output_cost_per_million": 10,
    "hosting_cost_per_user": 0.5,
    "other_per_user_costs": 0.25
  },
  "result": {
    "apiCostPerUser": 6.6,
    "totalCostPerUser": 7.35,
    "grossMarginPerUser": 21.65,
    "grossMarginPercent": 74.7,
    "apiSharePercent": 89.8,
    "dominantCostDriver": "AI API",
    "scaleTiers": [
      {
        "users": 100,
        "totalRevenue": 2900,
        "totalCost": 735,
        "totalProfit": 2165,
        "marginPercent": 74.7
      },
      {
        "users": 1000,
        "totalRevenue": 29000,
        "totalCost": 7350,
        "totalProfit": 21650,
        "marginPercent": 74.7
      },
      {
        "users": 10000,
        "totalRevenue": 290000,
        "totalCost": 73500,
        "totalProfit": 216500,
        "marginPercent": 74.7
      }
    ],
    "insight": "AI API is 89.8% of your per-user cost ($6.60 a month). At 10K users, that is $66,000 a month on API alone. Caching responses or using a tiered model approach could significantly improve margins."
  },
  "provenance": {
    "run": "https://aibizhub.io/api/run/ai-product-margin-calculator",
    "page": "https://aibizhub.io/ai-product-margin-calculator/",
    "methodology": "https://aibizhub.io/ai-product-margin-calculator/",
    "contract": "https://aibizhub.io/contracts/ai-product-margin-calculator.json",
    "engine": "https://aibizhub.io/engines/ai-product-margin-calculator.js",
    "engine_sha256": "cb89421ae8cd8f274d17f0d51c7f1c7779dd11c3811ceae3ee92446cddaa65fd",
    "build": "42c727dd573e245d1be09199a062c665d7f6f47e",
    "prices_verified": "2026-10-24",
    "prices_source": "https://aidevhub.io/api/models.json"
  },
  "disclaimer": "Business planning estimates — not legal, tax, or accounting advice.",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "cite": "AI Biz Hub, AI Product Margin Calculator (engine cb89421ae8cd), https://aibizhub.io/api/run/ai-product-margin-calculator"
}