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Reply to a customer support email in France
Read a customer email, check the order, write a reply. A person costs about €1.90 in wages per task. An AI agent with a short human check costs about €0.26.
Where the numbers come from
| Line | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly wage, clerical support workers | €14.25/h | Eurostat SES 2022, mean gross hourly earnings, firms with 10+ employees |
| Hourly labour cost, all jobs | €44.30/h | Eurostat lc_lci_lev, 2025, includes employer social contributions |
| Minutes a person takes | 8 min | estimate |
| Tokens per task, in / out | 11,400 / 600 | estimate 3 model calls |
| Agent tokens (Claude Sonnet 5.5) | €0.03 | $2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens, read 2026-10-28; $1 = €0.8969 (ECB 2026-10-27) |
| Human check of agent output | €0.24 | 1 min at the same wage estimate |
| Break-even volume | 132 tasks | 8 setup hours of a professional at €26.97/h estimate |
Wages are from 2022 and exclude employer contributions, so they understate today's cost of a person. The full labour cost line is 2025 but averages all jobs. Treat both as a range.
Same task, every model
| Model | Tokens only | With check | Person ÷ agent |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Luna · OpenAI | €0.0013 | €0.24 | 8× |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 · Anthropic | €0.0013 | €0.24 | 8× |
| Mistral Large * · Mistral AI | €0.0059 | €0.24 | 7.8× |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash · Google | €0.0097 | €0.25 | 7.7× |
| GPT-6.1 Terra · OpenAI | €0.01 | €0.25 | 7.6× |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Anthropic | €0.03 | €0.26 | 7.2× |
| GPT-6.1 Sol · OpenAI | €0.03 | €0.26 | 7.2× |
| Claude Opus 5.5 · Anthropic | €0.05 | €0.29 | 6.6× |
Standard-tier list prices read 2026-10-28. Batch discounts not applied. * Mistral price not confirmed in a price table. Price sources
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