How much does it cost to develop a chatbot using Microsoft Azure/Luis

Question

Anybody able to give a ball park figure of how much it would cost to develop a simple Q&A Chatbot that can be embedded in a website for customers to ask questions about products services? Also what programmes would I need?

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Answer 1

You can use the estimator tool to get an idea of cost.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator

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Answer 2

This really depends on how complex of a chatbot is being developed. A simple QnA chatbot is relatively inexpensive and if deployed on the F0 or Free tier then your cost would be well under $100.00 a month.

However, if you use the Virtual Assistant framework to develop a full blown virtual assistant then you could see a significantly higher charge.

Links to the Azure Pricing calculator are below to assist you in developing an estimate for the cost of your chatbot.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

If you are interested in the Azure virtual assistant framework the link to the overview and tutorials are below.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-builder-virtual-assistant-introduction?view=azure-bot-service-4.0#:~:text=The%20Virtual%20Assistant%20leverages%20the%20Microsoft%20Conversational%20AI,and%20alarm%20clocks%29%20through%20the%20Direct%20Line%20channel.

I hope this helps.