Title: What does AI implementation cost? Prices for 2026 | AI Heroes URL: https://aiheroes.io/en/ai-implementation-costs Description: What does AI implementation cost? The start sprint costs from €8,000 (six days, fixed), a build from €15,000. What comes after the build, and how you know up front what your application will cost. # What does AI implementation cost? After six days you know exactly. Having an AI application built starts at AI Heroes with a six-day start sprint, from €8,000. A build starts from €15,000 and for large systems runs to well over €100,000. After the start sprint you know what your application will cost. Plan a start sprint How to start ## What you pay The same amounts as everywhere on this site. - Start sprint: from €8,000 · Six days, fixed price, for every way in. Starts within two weeks of the first call. - Build: from €15,000 · Usually two to twelve weeks, in two-week sprints with a demo after every sprint. - Large systems: to well over €100,000 · With many connections, migrations or several applications at once. - After that: maintenance and development · Hosting, model usage, maintenance and further development. What that costs is in your business case. - Training: from €2,500 per half day · Bookable separately for your team. In a build, training on the system is included. See [AI training](https://aiheroes.io/en/training). ## Where the costs are What an application costs depends on a few things. After delivery too. - Connections · How many systems are involved, and whether they have a good API. - Data · How clean your data is and how much needs moving over. - Hosting · European cloud or your own servers, and how many users there are. - Model usage · How many questions or documents the AI model handles each month. - Maintenance and development · What comes after delivery: upkeep, updates and new wishes. - Training · How many people will work with it, and where. ## How you know for certain what it costs That is what the start sprint is for: in six days we build a prototype or build plan and work out what the full version costs and returns. - 6 days: from question to result - €8,000: fixed price, for every way in - 2 weeks: from the first call to the start After six days you have The business case on one page: what your application costs, what it returns and when it pays for itself. If it does not add up, we do not build. [How the start sprint works](https://aiheroes.io/en/start-sprint) Then we build in two-week sprints, from €15,000. Case · Kwakkel BV ## From question to working prototype in six days Kwakkel BV wanted to see whether the manual administrative work could go, and did not want to read it in a report. Within six days a prototype was running on their own records, with the business case on one page. - 6: days from question to working prototype After six days, Kwakkel knows what the full version costs and returns, and decides when the build starts. [Read the case](https://aiheroes.io/en/cases/kwakkel) ## Included in every build - Business case first · Before we build, you know what it costs, what it returns and when it pays for itself. - Compliance by design · AI Act classification, logging, human oversight and European hosting are part of the design. - Your people can work with it · We train the team that will use the system on the system itself. That also covers Article 4 of the AI Act. - Not tied to one AI vendor · You can switch AI models without rebuilding. Everything comes with documentation. [How we work](https://aiheroes.io/en/how-we-work) ## Frequently asked questions ### Why no fixed price for the build? Because every application is different. The start sprint works out what yours costs; after that the amount is in the business case. ### What are the running costs after the build? Hosting, model usage, maintenance and further development. What drives them is explained on this page; the amounts for your situation are in your business case. ### Isn't a SaaS tool cheaper? Sometimes. Sometimes you pay year after year for a package you only partly use; see [replacing a SaaS package](https://aiheroes.io/en/replace-saas). In the start sprint we work out both. ### What if the business case does not add up? Then we do not build. You keep the prototype or plan and the business case. ### Do I get the start sprint fee back if the build does not go ahead? No. You pay for six days of work and keep the prototype or plan and the business case. Who leads this at AI Heroes Frans Hoorn Co-Founder, business case and strategy Frans leads the start sprint and the business case: what it costs, what it returns and when it pays for itself. He combines strategic thinking with a sharp eye for how people actually use software. [The team](https://aiheroes.io/en/about/team) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/frans-hoorn-057b082a) ## Tell us what you want to build You will hear from us within 24 hours, usually with a proposal for a start sprint. [info@aiheroes.io](mailto:info@aiheroes.io) [+31 50 200 3373](tel:+31502003373) ### Book an introduction - [Frans Hoorn Business case and scoping](https://calendar.app.google/juFpF3MDmikH4BVS8) - [David Homan Build, hosting and compliance](https://calendar.app.google/GcA1oBNwzyFZtW5W6) - [Jan Brusse Adoption and training for your team](https://calendar.app.google/un3fLvb7ht4f7PBWA)