How much does an AI employee cost?

Standin's AI Digital Employee costs $7,000 per month as a fully managed service. That is the whole answer for our pricing. The more useful question is what that number includes, what the alternatives really cost, and when it is not worth paying.

Why AI employee pricing is usually murky

Most companies selling “AI employees” or “digital workers” make you book a demo to hear a price. The price often depends on seats, usage, add-ons, and an annual contract negotiated at the end of a sales process. That is a software pricing model wearing a staffing metaphor.

Standin publishes pricing because the decision should be simple: the AI Digital Employee is $7,000/month. One number, one managed service.

What the $7,000/month includes

Installation. Standin configures the Digital Employee for your business and connects the systems you approve, through secure OAuth, never shared passwords.
The Executive Skill Pack. The first working package: inbox triage, follow-up drafts, calendar visibility, meeting prep, daily or weekly briefings, reporting, and open-loop tracking.
A private request board. Your team adds workflow requests, fixes, and ideas; Standin prioritizes and builds them into the service over time.
Management. Monitoring, quality review, approval-first guardrails, and ongoing improvement. You do not hire someone to babysit the AI: that is the service.

The starting package is deliberately focused so value shows up quickly, then the Digital Employee expands into approved sales, operations, reporting, research, and support workflows. The full picture is in What is an AI Digital Employee?

The comparison most buyers actually run

$7,000/month is $84,000 a year. Nobody should pretend that is cheap. The honest comparison is against the other ways to get the same work done:

Option	Typical cost	Who manages it	What you get
Standin AI Digital Employee	$7,000/month, published	Standin	Managed workflows across admin, follow-up, reporting, and operations, approval-first
Full-time admin/ops hire	Commonly $55,000–$80,000 salary, plus taxes, benefits, recruiting, and ramp time	You	One person, one set of hours, real judgment, needs management and can leave
Virtual assistant	Commonly $1,000–$4,000/month depending on hours and seniority	You	Task-by-task help, limited system access, quality varies with the individual
DIY AI tools	$20–$500/month in licenses	Your team	Powerful raw capability that only works as well as the person driving it

Each row is a legitimate choice for the right situation. We wrote the two comparisons buyers ask about most as standalone guides: AI employee vs. hiring and AI employee vs. virtual assistant.

When it is not worth $7,000/month

Some businesses should not buy this, and it saves everyone time to say so:

There is no recurring work to hand over. If your bottleneck is strategy, product, or sales skill rather than repeatable admin and follow-up, a Digital Employee will sit underused.
The volume is too small. A five-email-a-day inbox and two meetings a week do not need a managed AI worker. A trained team with good AI habits does fine: that is what the Live AI Workshop is for.
Nobody inside will own the outcome. Standin manages the AI, but the client still decides what matters and what needs approval. If no one will make those calls, the service stalls.

The cheapest way to find out

Start with the free follow-up leak calculator: six sliders that put an annual dollar figure on your repeatable work and compare it to the $84,000/year Digital Employee, using your own numbers.

From there, the fit call is free, and the pricing is already public, so the conversation is about one thing: whether the repeatable work in your business is worth $7,000/month to take off your team's plate. If it is not, we will say so.

Pricing Questions

What is included in the $7,000/month?Installation, secure OAuth access setup, the Executive Skill Pack workflows, a private request board for new workflows and improvements, monitoring, and ongoing management by Standin. It is a managed service, not a software license.

Is there cheaper AI employee software?Yes: plenty of AI tools cost $20 to a few hundred dollars per month. The difference is who does the work. With a tool, your team configures it, maintains it, and fixes it when it drifts. With a managed Digital Employee, that is Standin's job.

Do you guarantee a specific ROI?No. Standin does not promise a revenue number. We commit to building and managing useful workflows, being clear about what is working, and changing the approach when a workflow is not producing enough value.

What do the workshops cost?The Live AI Workshop is a separate standalone product: $5,000 for the 4-hour virtual format, or $10,000 for the 6-hour in-person format. It trains your employees to use AI themselves rather than installing a Digital Employee.

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