What does on-premise AI cost per person?

The headline figure

Seesa prices per person. The pricing page opens with a worked example, and its defaults are 50 people, a main workload of questions and drafting, five years of history to bring in and a 36-month lease. For that setup it shows £117.75 per person per month for the Seesa software and an indicative hardware lease, paid in 36 monthly instalments, excluding VAT.

Multiply by 50 people and the company monthly total shown on the page is £5,887.62.

Where the money goes

The per-person price has two parts.

• Software: £80 per person per month. For 50 people, that is £4,000 a month. It includes standard installation, maintenance and first-line support.
• Hardware: £37.75 per person per month. For 50 people, the page shows a hardware charge of £1,887.62 a month, which includes a 1.5% markup.

What the hardware example looks like

The example configuration on the pricing page is a dual RTX PRO 6000 server, indicative for five simultaneous active requests. The page uses a hardware purchase basis of £60,000, excluding VAT, as a planning allowance, and notes that a complete server quote is needed.

To show how the lease is built, the page illustrates financing 80% of that purchase basis, with the remaining 20% recovered across the 36 months, and assumes 9% APR on the financed share. The page is clear that the finance facility is not yet agreed, and that supplier prices, finance terms and availability require confirmation. The page also says capacity has not been benchmarked on this exact hardware.

In plain terms, you are not buying a £60,000 server up front in this example. You are paying for the use of it, month by month, alongside the software.

What is included, and what is not

Standard installation, maintenance and first-line support are included. The standard offer also covers historical import planning, as the pricing page puts it, and supported connections and permissions are part of standard setup.

Bespoke work is separate. Bespoke integrations and routines are scoped separately with a forward-deployed engineer, and optional specialist engagements are priced separately. Additional storage may also be needed beyond the primary working-storage allowance in the example, and is not included in the hardware price; your final quote includes the verified storage specification.

Prices on the page are in pounds sterling and exclude VAT. US customers are invited to ask about local supply, currency and tax.

Buying instead of leasing

A lease is one of three routes. You can also buy the hardware, in which case you own the machine and Pentatonic manages the Seesa installation for you, or use your own hardware if it is suitable: you share its specifications, and Pentatonic checks it against your workload and agrees the installation and support arrangements. Leases can run over 24, 36 or 48 months, and your proposal sets out the lease and software costs separately.

Why the price is indicative

People, workload, data volume and the final financed hardware cost all affect the quote. A company with more history to bring in, or heavier agent work, may need different hardware from the example. The pricing page lets you change the number of people, the main workload and the years of history to see the estimate move, and for larger or heavier setups a hardware quote is needed.

That is why the page calls its figures a planning estimate. The website terms say calculator figures and website prices are indicative, not a binding quotation or confirmed order. Configuration, availability, taxes, payment terms and the final price are confirmed with you.

What changes the number

The pricing page gives you three levers. The first is the number of people using Seesa. The second is the main workload, with three options: questions and drafting, regular agent work, or heavy agents and code. The third is how much history to bring in, from one, three, five or ten years. History informs the import and storage plan, and actual source volume may change the hardware quote.

A team that mostly asks questions and drafts text is a lighter load than one running agents all day. The page sizes the hardware to match, which is why the hardware share of the per-person price moves while the software price stays at £80.

What to bring to a pricing conversation

A few facts make the first conversation much more useful.

• How many people will use Seesa, now and in the next year or two.
• The main work you want it to do.
• Which systems hold your records, and roughly how many years of history matter.
• Whether you would rather lease, buy or use hardware you already own.

How to use the example

For a company of about 50 people, treat the example as a starting point for a budget conversation rather than a price to hold anyone to. It tells you the shape of the cost: a per-person software element that includes setup and support, and a hardware element that depends on how the machine is sourced and financed.

To see how the numbers move for your own team, use the pricing page, then talk to us. We confirm the hardware, data import and final price with you.