AI Implementation Costs: Enterprise Budget Planning Guide

9/18/2025

Plan AI implementation budgets accurately. Understand all cost components and ROI timelines.

## Platform Costs - Claude AI: $15-20/user/month - ChatGPT Enterprise: $30+/user/month - Custom models: $50K-500K

## Implementation Costs - Assessment: $25K-50K - Pilot: $50K-150K - Enterprise rollout: $200K-1M - Ongoing support: 20% annual

## Hidden Costs - Data preparation - Integration work - Training programs - Governance setup

## ROI Timeline - 3-6 months: Initial returns - 12 months: Break-even - 24 months: 300% ROI typical

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