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A 60-second audit for finance & ops leads

Your AI platform works fine. The invoice is the problem.

If your company spends $5,000+ a month on AI seats and usage, this page will show you, in dollars, what the same work costs on open models (Kimi K3, GLM-5.2 class) hosted on your own dedicated GPUs. Same capabilities. Same workflows. A much smaller number.

Run my bill auditSee the 3 spending profilesFree. No signup. 3 inputs.
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median modeled savings when frontier seat + usage spend moves to dedicated open-model infrastructure*
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spending profiles: Bloated, Average, Efficient. The audit tells you which one you are.
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of typical non-coding AI workloads (drafts, research, support, reporting) that open models now cover*
The audit

Paste in three numbers. Get your verdict.

Defaults reflect a typical 25-seat team on a frontier AI platform. Adjust to match your bill. Everything updates live.

Your current setup

Everyone with a seat or regular usage: ops, support, marketing, analysts.
Token overages, premium-model surcharges, API usage. Check last month's invoice.
Frontier-heavy teams pay up to 4× more per token for work open models now handle.
Average: real leakage
$25.2k/yr
modeled annual savings on Duet dedicated infrastructure (42% of current bill)
Your current annual spend$60,300
Same workloads on Duet (open models, dedicated GPUs)$35,060
Effective cost per 1M tokens today$9.00
Effective cost per 1M tokens on Duet$1.99
Payback period on migration~2 months
TodayOn Duet
Forward the verdict to your CFO — the link replays these exact numbers.

Get the full audit as a one-page PDF: model-by-model breakdown, migration plan, and the GPU sizing we'd recommend. We send it, you keep it.

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Where you stand

Three spending profiles. One of them is you.

Inspired by Ramp's token-spend benchmark: same work, wildly different bills. The difference is almost never usage. It's model choice and where the model runs.

Bloated

Pays frontier prices for everything

Every task, from a support macro to a board deck, runs on the most expensive model, on a meter that never sleeps.

  • Model mix: frontier for ~85%+ of tokens
  • Infra: shared, metered API seats
  • Bill shape: grows every month, no one knows why
  • Typical savings on Duet: 55–75%
Average

Some discipline, real leakage

Cheaper models for easy tasks, but seat licenses + overages + premium defaults quietly eat the difference.

  • Model mix: ~50/50 frontier vs mid-tier
  • Infra: metered seats + usage overages
  • Bill shape: predictable-ish, with spikes
  • Typical savings on Duet: 40–60%
Efficient

Already cost-aware

Routes work to the cheapest capable model. The remaining lever is structural: own the infrastructure instead of renting it.

  • Model mix: frontier only where it earns its keep
  • Infra: mixed, partially self-hosted
  • Bill shape: flat, scrutinized
  • Typical savings on Duet: 20–40%
The math, in the open

How we model your number

No black box. The audit uses public list prices and a conservative utilization assumption. If anything, it understates the gap.

Workload classFrontier list priceOpen model on Duet
Drafting, research, reporting, support$3–15 / 1M tok (frontier models)≈$0.75 / 1M tok effective*
Hardest 10–15% (keep on frontier)$10–50 / 1M tok (highest-cost reasoning models)unchanged, routed via Duet
Seat license, per person$20–100 / mo$0, included
Dedicated GPU node (sized to team)Not applicableflat, from ~$1.5k/mo

*Blended effective rate for Kimi K3 / GLM-5.2-class models amortized over a dedicated node at ~45% utilization, including the Duet platform. We keep 15% of your workload at frontier prices on purpose. Some tasks genuinely need the biggest model, and Duet routes those through too.

Why this isn't apples-to-oranges. Open models crossed the "good enough for business work" line for drafting, research, enrichment, support triage, and reporting, the exact workloads that dominate non-coding AI bills. Frontier models still win on the hardest reasoning, and the audit keeps that 10–15% of your spend in place.

What changes is who owns the meter. Today you rent tokens by the sip and seats by the head. On Duet, open models run on dedicated GPUs sized to your team. The meter is yours, the data stays on your infrastructure, and the AI product (agents, memory, channels, apps) comes fully wired in.

The result: same capabilities your team already relies on, at a flat infrastructure cost instead of a growing per-seat, per-token bill.

Fair questions

Before you run the numbers

Is the output quality actually the same?
For the non-coding workloads that make up most AI bills, including drafts, research briefs, support replies, reporting, and data cleanup, Kimi K3 and GLM-5.2-class models now score within a few points of frontier models on standard business-writing and analysis evals, and the gap is invisible in day-to-day use. For the hardest 10–15% of tasks, Duet routes to frontier models anyway. You keep the best of both; you just stop paying frontier prices for commodity work.
What does "dedicated GPUs" actually get me?
Three things a metered API never will: a flat monthly cost that doesn't grow with usage, data residency on infrastructure dedicated to your company, and headroom. Your team can run agents 24/7 without anyone watching the token meter. It's the difference between renting compute by the sip and owning the tap.
How is this different from just switching to a cheaper plan?
Cheaper plans still charge per seat and per token on shared infrastructure. The bill grows back as usage grows. The structural saving comes from moving the workload class to open models on infrastructure you control. That's what the audit quantifies: not a discount, a different cost curve.
What does migration actually look like?
A working session, not a procurement cycle. We map your current AI workflows, size a dedicated node, and stand up Duet alongside your existing setup. Teams typically run both in parallel for two weeks, then cut over. The $50 in frontier-model credits we include with a booked call covers the parallel run.
Who is this not for?
If your AI spend is primarily code generation at heavy volume, frontier coding models still earn their premium. The audit will show you a smaller gap, and we'll say so. This audit is built for the non-coding majority: ops, support, marketing, finance, and analytics teams.
Same capabilities. Smaller number.

Run the audit. Then make us prove it.

Bring last month's invoice to a 20-minute working session. We'll rebuild your bill line by line on dedicated open-model infrastructure. If the gap isn't real, you'll know in one call.

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