artificial-intelligence Aug 16, 2026 13 min
Chatbot Development Company: 2026 Costs to Ship a Production Support Bot in India
Outcome pricing at $0.99 a resolution costs 64 times the underlying model tokens. The published 2026 numbers, the resolution-rate denominator games, the Indic tokenisation tax, and the DPDP clause that should change
Manu Shukla 
