What does it cost to build an AI agent for a small business?

With Loque Logic, a typical build with an AI agent inside it costs $3,000 to $12,000, quoted at a fixed price after scoping. That covers the build, the training and the parallel run. Afterward you pay only model usage and hosting.

How much does automation cost for a small business?

A typical project runs $3,000 to $12,000 at a fixed price, with support usually $250 to $3,000 a month.

How do you train an AI agent on our business?

With your rules, real examples, your documents, guardrails and review loops. Nobody builds a model.

What Does an AI Agent Cost to Build?

What the fixed price covers

The build, the training and the switch-over. Discovery with the people who do the work, a written plan, the agent itself and the workflow around it, testing against real examples from your business, and the parallel run until its answers match. You see the price in writing before anything is built, with room for small adjustments and a change order for anything bigger.

What it costs to run

Two things: the model’s usage, billed by the provider, and the hosting. Both run in accounts you own and pay directly, with no markup. For the client systems we’ve published, the model and hosting together are a small part of the monthly picture. The SEO system that publishes across seven dealership websites, for instance, costs about $21 a month¹ to run across all seven, estimated.

Support is separate and optional. If you take it, it’s usually $250 to $3,000 a month, with most projects at the lower end, covering monitoring, fixes, model changes and small improvements.

What moves the price

The state of the systems the agent has to work with. Clean software with a usable API is quick. Old tools, messy data and a portal with no API take longer. The number of exceptions matters too, because each one needs a rule or a person to send it to. A simpler agent can come in under the typical range, and a more involved one above it.