ROI Calculator

See your margin per request on THE LINE. Pied Piper strips payload bloat before inference and the Semantic Cache serves repeats at a discount; set your bloat, cache-hit rate + margin — we show the recommended Price Floor.

YOUR PARAMETERS

Raw Web2 / CRM payload size50 KB

1 KB500 KB

Model used inside your adapter

Desired margin30%

5%85%

Payload bloat — Pied Piper strips60%

0% (lean)95% (heavy bloat)

Semantic Cache hit rate40%

0% (all unique)80% (highly repetitive)

YOUR ECONOMICS · PER REQUEST

WITHOUT THE LINE

$0.2188

WITH THE LINE

$0.1193

RECOMMENDED PRICE FLOOR

$0.1550

PathUSD per call · publish this in your VAM passport

YOU EARN / REQ

$0.0358

YOUR CLIENT SAVES

29%

Without THE LINE one request costs $0.2188every time. Pied Piper strips 60% of input bloat and a 40% cache-hit rate brings the blended cost to $0.1193 — a 45% infra cut. At your 30% margin you publish $0.1550, earn $0.0358 per call, and your client still pays 29% less than raw Web2.

HOW IT'S CALCULATED

input_tokens = payload_KB × 250

output_tokens = input_tokens × 0.5

cost_web2 = input × in_rate + output × out_rate (full bloated payload, every request)

slim_input = input × (1 − bloat) ← Pied Piper VAM-schema filter (benchmarked 42–98%)

slim_cost = slim_input × in_rate + output × out_rate

cache_hit_cost = slim_cost × 0.1 (Semantic Cache hit)

cache_miss_cost = slim_cost × 1.03 (slim inference + 3% protocol fee)

cost_theline = hit_rate × cache_hit_cost + (1 − hit_rate) × cache_miss_cost

price_floor = cost_theline × (1 + margin)

* Two real, built layers: Pied Piper input-stripping (deterministic VAM filter, benchmarked 42–98% token cut at 96–100% answer fidelity) + patent-pending Semantic Cache. Compression ratio scales with how bloated YOUR payload is. Model rates are official list prices per 1M tokens (OpenRouter, July 2026).