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Do the sums for your own team.

Compare a cloud AI subscription with buying hardware once, and see what the hours your people save are worth. The results are arithmetic on the figures you enter.

Sources

Sources for the example figures

The 30 people are the example itself. The other figures are published values, checked in October 2026.

• Price per person per month, € 18,20. The list price of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Business add-on with annual billing, excluding VAT, on Microsoft’s Dutch pricing page.
• Hardware, Mac mini, € 3.009. The price of an Apple Mac mini with the M5 Pro chip (15‑core CPU, 16‑core GPU), 48 GB of memory and 1 TB of storage, the lowest-priced Mac mini with 48 GB and 1 TB, which leaves room for the models, on Apple’s Dutch store. The price includes Dutch VAT. The example uses this price.
• Hardware, NVIDIA DGX Spark, € 7.490. The price of an NVIDIA DGX Spark Founders Edition, a desktop computer built to run AI models locally, on NVIDIA’s Italian marketplace. The page does not say whether VAT is included, so the two hardware prices may not be on the same VAT basis.
• Hours saved per person per week, 2. A 2024 US survey of people who use generative AI at work found they saved 5.4% of their hours, 2.2 hours in a 40-hour week (Bick, Blandin and Deming, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2025). Rounded down to 2.
• Hourly cost of an employee, € 34,90. The average hourly labour cost in the EU in 2025, across the whole economy (Eurostat, Hourly labour costs).