In this worked example, building costs $94,000 less than buying over three years
Three-year cost to buy or build one referral-packet workflow at a 200-bed hospital, in dollars. A Kent Applied example with invented numbers.
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| Category | Integration or build | License or hosting, 3 years | Staff ownership, 3 years | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buy | $25,000 | $180,000 | $60,000 | $265,000 |
| Build | $45,000 | $36,000 | $90,000 | $171,000 |
About the data
- Source
- Kent Applied, How to score an AI vendor before the demoBuild versus buy, in dollars
- Method
- The numbers are an invented example to show the method. Buy: $60,000 a year in license fees, $25,000 for integration, and 0.2 FTE of internal ownership at about $20,000 a year. Build: a $45,000 fixed-price build, about $12,000 a year in hosting and model API costs, and 0.3 FTE of ownership at about $30,000 a year.
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