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AI Agent Incident Cost Estimator
By ghostcorpnet Studio · Runs 100% in your browser — no signup, nothing sent anywhere
Every agent incident costs investigation and remediation time — usually senior time. Enter your own numbers below: how many agents you run, how often they incident, how long one incident takes to work through, and what an hour of that work costs. You'll get your estimated monthly and annual incident-handling bill. Every number on this page is computed from your inputs — nothing here is a benchmark or a claimed statistic.
How the math works
Incidents per month = agents × incidents per agent per month. Monthly handling hours = incidents per month × hours per incident. Monthly cost = handling hours × your hourly loaded cost, and the annual figure is that × 12. With the no-audit-trail toggle on, hours per incident are multiplied by (1 + your extra-time slider) — the slider is your assumption about how much longer reconstruction makes an investigation, and it is labeled that way because it is one. No averages from anyone else's fleet are baked in anywhere.
The two levers that lower this number
- Fewer incidents: bounds and approval gates stop agents from taking the actions that become incidents in the first place — a bounded agent can't wander into the expensive failure modes. Try lowering the incidents field above to what a bounded setup would look like for your team and compare.
- Faster investigations: an audit trail — a durable log of what each agent did, when, and under whose approval — turns reconstruction into reading. Flip the toggle above off and the difference is what your own assumption says the trail is worth.
- Cheaper hours: runbooks and a clear incident record mean the first responder doesn't have to be the most senior person on the team, which lowers the hourly rate in the last field honestly — not by paying people less, but by needing less of their time per incident.
Put incident governance into practice
The Governed Agent Mesh Playbook — Studio Edition ($29) gives you the full system: bounds, approval gates, audit trails, and incident response for agents in production.
Get the Studio Edition — $29Start free: the Agent Bounds Checklist walks through the nine bounds every agent needs, on one page — $0.
Estimates only — every figure on this page is arithmetic on the values you entered, including the no-audit-trail assumption. Nothing here is a measured benchmark. This tool stores nothing and sends nothing.