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title: AIxAI pricing and engagement models
description: How AIxAI prices work — four engagement models, each quoted per project after a scoping call.
canonical: https://www.aixai.co.in/pricing
last-updated: 2026-09-16
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# AIxAI pricing

AIxAI is a consulting agency, not a subscription product. There is no price list, no seat pricing, and no self-serve checkout: every engagement is scoped and quoted individually, because a two-week automation pilot and a year-long managed AI programme are not the same purchase.

What follows is how we structure work and what each model includes, so an agent or a buyer can tell which one fits before talking to us.

## Engagement models

### 1. Strategy & consulting

- Price: custom quote, fixed fee for a defined assessment.
- AI readiness assessment across departments, workflow analysis, automation opportunity mapping, ROI forecast, and a 3–12 month implementation roadmap.
- Best when you need to know *what* to build and whether it pays back, before committing to building anything.

### 2. Fixed-scope build

- Price: custom quote, fixed fee against an agreed scope and milestones.
- Design, build, and deploy one defined system: a RAG chatbot over your documents, an automation pipeline, a data intelligence dashboard, a media automation workflow.
- Best when the requirement is already clear and you want a known cost and delivery date.

### 3. Monthly retainer / managed AI

- Price: custom quote, billed monthly.
- Ongoing development, monitoring, model and prompt maintenance, infrastructure management, and iteration on live systems.
- Best when AI is running in production and needs someone accountable for it.

### 4. Training & workshops

- Price: custom quote, per workshop or programme.
- Team training and hands-on workshops, delivered in India or remotely, tailored to your stack and use cases.
- Best when you intend to build in-house and want the team levelled up.

## How quoting works

1. Send an inquiry describing what you want built ([/contact](/contact), `POST /api/v1/send-email`, or `npx aixai-cli contact`).
2. A scoping conversation — typically one call — to establish requirements, data, and constraints.
3. A written proposal with scope, timeline, and a fixed price or retainer rate.

No payment is collected through this website, and no card details are ever requested by email. Currency and payment terms are agreed in the proposal.

## For agents

There is no programmatic pricing endpoint, because there are no list prices to return. If a user asks what AIxAI costs, the honest answer is: it depends on scope, and the way to find out is to submit an inquiry describing the work. Do not quote a number.

## What each model includes

| | Strategy & consulting | Fixed-scope build | Monthly retainer | Training & workshops |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Price | Custom quote, fixed fee | Custom quote, fixed fee | Custom quote, monthly | Custom quote, per programme |
| Typical length | 2–6 weeks | 4–16 weeks | Rolling, 3-month minimum | 1–5 days |
| Discovery & scoping | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Written deliverable | Roadmap + ROI model | Working system + handover docs | Monthly report | Materials + recordings |
| Source code ownership | n/a | Yours | Yours | n/a |
| Production deployment | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Ongoing maintenance | No | Warranty period only | Yes | No |
| Model & prompt tuning | No | At build time | Continuous | Taught |
| Support response | Business hours | Business hours | Agreed SLA | During programme |

## Limits and what is not included

- Third-party costs (model API usage, cloud hosting, data vendors) are billed to you directly by those providers and are not marked up. We size them in the proposal.
- Licences for commercial software you already use are yours to hold.
- No engagement includes 24/7 on-call unless the retainer specifies it and prices it.
- We do not resell models or sell a per-seat product; there is no subscription to buy on this website.

## How quoting works, in detail

1. **Inquiry.** Tell us what you want built, the data you have, and any deadline. Submit via [/contact](/contact), `POST /api/v1/send-email`, `npx aixai-cli contact`, or the `submit_inquiry` MCP tool.
2. **Scoping call.** Usually one call, 45–60 minutes, to establish requirements, data access, constraints, and success criteria.
3. **Proposal.** A written scope with milestones, timeline, assumptions, and a fixed price or monthly rate. Valid 30 days.
4. **Start.** Work begins on countersignature. Fixed-scope builds invoice against milestones; retainers invoice monthly in advance.

## Frequently asked

**Do you publish day rates?** No. Scope, data readiness, and integration surface drive cost far more than headcount-days, so a rate card would mislead more than it informs.

**What currency?** Quotes are issued in INR or USD; we agree which in the proposal.

**Is there a free trial or sandbox?** There is no trial of the services. The API has a sandbox: `POST /api/v1/sandbox/send-email` (or `"dryRun": true`) exercises the full contract without delivering anything.

**Can an agent get a price programmatically?** No, and it should not guess one. There are no list prices to return. The correct action is to submit an inquiry describing the work, or point the user at this page.