Chatbot ROI calculator
Enter how many questions you get and how long they take. You'll see the hours your team gets back, what that's worth, and what's left after the chatbot's cost.
Free · No signup · Runs in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere
Questions your website or documents already answer: prices, hours, policies, how-tos.
Sets how many messages the chatbot uses, which decides the plan.
Saved each year, after the chatbot's cost
$11,566
480 questions a month answered without your team, about 27.6x what the chatbot costs.
Hours saved a month
40
Time saved is worth
$1,000
per month
AI messages a month
2,400
AgenBase cost
$36.20
Pro plan + 900 extra messages
Get 40 hours back every month
Train AgenBase on your website and documents and check the answers in the playground before you go live. Free for 50 messages a month.
How the calculator works
It multiplies the questions a chatbot can answer on its own by the minutes a person spends on each one, then by the hourly cost of that time. That's the saving.
The cost side assumes the chatbot replies to every conversation, not only the ones it resolves, so it counts several AI messages per conversation. It then picks the cheapest AgenBase plan for that volume, including extra messages.
Picking realistic numbers
The result is only as good as the inputs. A few ways to get them right:
- Questions per month: count emails, chats and calls about things your website already answers. Your inbox and phone log are the best source.
- Share answered by the bot: look at your last 50 questions and mark the ones fully answered by a page or document you already have. That's your rate.
- Minutes per answer: include reading, finding the information and writing back, not only typing. Three to six minutes is common for email.
- Hourly cost: use the full cost of the person answering (salary plus overhead), not only their hourly wage.
What the number doesn't show
Speed matters as much as cost. A visitor who gets an answer at 11 pm is more likely to buy or book than one who waits until morning, and that upside isn't in this calculation.
The calculator also leaves out setup time. With AgenBase that's usually under an hour: add your pages and documents, test in the playground, paste one line of code.
Questions
What is a good ROI for a chatbot?
Anything above 1x means the chatbot saves more than it costs. Small businesses that get a steady flow of repetitive questions often see several times the plan price in saved time, but your own question volume and answer rate decide it.
How much of my support can a chatbot handle?
It depends on how many questions are already answered in your content. Questions about prices, hours, shipping, returns and policies are easy wins; anything that needs account access or judgment still needs a person.
Is my data saved?
No. The calculator runs entirely in your browser, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Why does the chatbot cost depend on messages, not questions?
A conversation usually has a few back-and-forth replies. AgenBase counts each AI reply as one message, so the calculator multiplies conversations by messages per chat.