Cost Comparison
How does DiscreteStack compare to your current AI spend?
Compare the total cost of ownership against hyperscaler AI APIs. Adjust the sliders to match your organization. Open on Desktop for best experience.
505001,000
Includes hardware leasing costs
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Off-hours bonus tokens/year:
~676,288M
at zero marginal cost
Annual Savings with DiscreteStack
€341,000
55% cost advantage
Hyperscaler Annual Cost
€621,000
What You Pay
API usage (pay-per-call)€621,000
Infrastructureas-a-service
Unit Economics
Per developer / day€14.38
Price per 1M tokens€1.30
DiscreteStack Annual Cost
€280,000
What You Pay
License (4 nodes)€200,000
Hardware lease€80,000
Unit Economics
Per developer / day€6.48
Effective per 1M tokens€0.24
Off-Hours Compute Dividend
Business hours
Off-hours
~676,288M bonus tokens/year outside working hours — RAG indexing, batch inference, CI/CD test generation, agentic workflows.