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What does on-premise AI
actually cost here?

An installed system starts at $2,900. This is what is inside that number, what it costs to keep, and the point where it beats paying per person every month.

By Harry, Matt and Riley, co-founders · 29 August 2026

The short answer

A fitted LocallyAI system starts at $2,900 for one person doing dictation and drafting, $4,900 for one or two regular users, and runs to $17,500 for a firm with high memory needs or paired machines. Service is $600 a year. Extra staff cost nothing, because there are no seats.

Prices are in Australian dollars. Prices exclude GST; it is itemised on the quote. Hardware moves, so a written quote holds for 14 days.

What is inside the number

  • The machine itself, specified for your actual workload rather than a showroom tier.
  • The Harness, installed and configured against your files, your people and your industry.
  • Local models, pulled and pinned, including transcription.
  • HTTPS on your network, backups, health checks and handover.

It is a system, not a box with a login emailed to you afterwards.

Where it beats a subscription

A business AI seat runs about $75 per person per month. Five people is $4,500 a year, and $22,500 over five years — money that buys nothing you keep.

An Office-tier system is $7,900 up front and $600 a year, so $10,900 over the same five years. Add the eleventh staff member and the subscription bill grows; yours does not.

What it does not include

Custom integrations into your practice management system, ledger or document store are quoted separately, as are rebuilt letter templates and any off-site work. We would rather name those than bury them.

The honest test

A two-person, low-use subscription can show a smaller first-year cash figure, but it buys no machine and no local processing boundary. As headcount and routine document, meeting and drafting work grow, ownership avoids multiplying per-seat fees while keeping control on site.

On-site installs and product demonstrations are coming soon and we will run your own document through it.

Bring us one job your team repeats every week. We will show you the system doing it →