What a chatter costs and what an AI agent costs, in public figures only

The human side has a unit: one seat, one shift. Posting 1702660 on OnlineJobs.ph states $2.00 an hour plus 3% commission. Its description says "8 hours/day, 6 days/week", which is 48 hours, while the posting's own "hours per week" box says 40; the desk prints both and does not pick one, so the weekly base is $80 to $96 before commission, a desk calculation on the posting's two figures. Posting 1681372 states $3.65 an hour for 45 hours a week, that is $164.25 a week. One seat covers one shift; how many seats an agency runs per creator is not stated in either posting.

The software side has no such unit. The AI chatting category of the Tools OFM directory, a site of the same network as this desk, lists three tools on 2026-09-14, two of them with a public price. The two published price shapes are a weekly or monthly fee per seat or per creator, from $5 a week billed monthly at the bottom of that page to $70 a month per creator at the top, and a commission of 10% to 15% of what the software sells, charged by one vendor on top of its monthly fee. The third tool publishes no price at all.

The comparison stops there because the units differ. A chatter cost is fixed per hour regardless of sales; a software commission scales with sales and a subscription does not. What the software produces per creator against what a rota produces is not published by anyone, and no independent measurement exists. The desk prints the prices and not a verdict.

Vendors are not named here on purpose. Their public price lists are on the directory page cited, with the date each was read.