breaking things up

guides/billing/estimating-costs.mdx

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+---
+title: "Estimating Cost"
+sidebarTitle: "Estimating Cost"
+description: "Get information on your voice pipeline's projected costs."
+---
+
+Since there are so many moving parts to the voice pipeline that can incur cost, it would be ideal for us to get a good estimate of our final projected per-minute cost for calls.
+
+### Dashboard Cost Estimates
+
+The Vapi dashboard provides static cost projections on a per-assistant basis, so you can get a rough idea of the costs your assistant will incur during live execution.
+
+<Tip>
+  You can view your dashboard at [dashboard.vapi.ai](https://dashboard.vapi.ai/) & get started with
+  our [dashboard quickstart](/quickstart/dashboard).
+</Tip>
+
+<Frame caption="Vapi-computed per-minute cost projection, as well as latency projection.">
+  <img className="hidden h-32 dark:block" src="/static/images/guides/billing/cost-estimate.gif" />
+</Frame>
+
+### Calling Your Assistant
+
+One good way to get an empirical per-minute cost on your whole voice pipeline is to actually call in, use it for a few minutes, & observe the average cost/minute at the call level.
+
+<Note>
+  You can view a breakdown of your cost per call in your dashboard at
+  [dashboard.vapi.ai/calls](https://dashboard.vapi.ai/calls)
+</Note>
+
+Your call cost breakdowns will look something like this:
+
+<Frame caption="Cost breakdown for a call viewed in the Vapi web dashboard.">
+  <img src="/static/images/guides/billing/call-pricing-breakdown.png" />
+</Frame>
+
+Here is what each line item corresponds to:
+
+- `STT`: Speech-to-text (providers often bill per-minute, prorated)
+- `LLM`: LLM inference (providers often bill per-million or per-thousand tokens)
+- `TTS`: Text-to-speech (providers often bill per-character)
+- `Vapi`: the Vapi platform fee of 5¢/minute (prorated per-second)
+- `Transport`: telephony costs (incurred for inbound/outbound phone calls to/from a phone number) (providers often bill per-minute)

mint.json

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   "navigation": [
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       "group": "Welcome",
-      "pages": [
-        "introduction",
-        "pricing",
-        "support",
-        "faq",
-        "resources",
-        "status"
-      ]
+      "pages": ["introduction", "pricing", "support", "faq", "resources", "status"]
     },
     {
       "group": "Get Started",
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     },
     {
       "group": "Guides",
-      "pages": ["multilingual_support", "privacy_hipaa"]
+      "pages": [
+        "multilingual_support",
+        "privacy_hipaa",
+        {
+          "group": "Billing",
+          "pages": ["guides/billing/estimating-costs"]
+        }
+      ]
     },
     {
       "group": "Platform",

pricing.mdx

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 ---
 
-## Estimating Cost
-
-Since there are so many moving parts to the voice pipeline that can incur cost, it would be ideal for us to get a good estimate of our final projected per-minute cost.
-
-### Dashboard Cost Estimates
-
-The Vapi dashboard provides static cost projections on a per-assistant basis, so you can get a rough idea of the costs your assistant will incur during live execution.
-
-<Tip>
-  You can view your dashboard at [dashboard.vapi.ai](https://dashboard.vapi.ai/) & get started with
-  our [dashboard quickstart](/quickstart/dashboard).
-</Tip>
-
-<Frame caption="Vapi-computed per-minute cost projection (as well as latency projection).">
-  <img className="hidden h-32 dark:block" src="/static/images/pricing/cost-estimate.gif" />
-</Frame>
-
-### Calling Your Assistant
-
-One good way to get an empirical per-minute cost on your whole voice pipeline is to actually call in, use it for a few minutes, & observe the average cost/minute at the call level.
-
-<Note>
-  You can view a breakdown of your cost per call in your dashboard at
-  [dashboard.vapi.ai/calls](https://dashboard.vapi.ai/calls)
-</Note>
-
-Your call breakdowns will look something like this:
-
-<Frame caption="Cost breakdown for a call viewed in the Vapi web dashboard.">
-  <img src="/static/images/pricing/call-pricing-breakdown.png" />
-</Frame>
-
-Here is what each line item corresponds to:
-
-- `STT`: Speech-to-text (providers often bill per-minute, prorated)
-- `LLM`: LLM inference (providers often bill per-million or per-thousand tokens)
-- `TTS`: Text-to-speech (providers often bill per-character)
-- `Vapi`: the Vapi platform fee of 5¢/minute (prorated per-second)
-- `Transport`: telephony costs (incurred for inbound/outbound phone calls to/from a phone number) (providers often bill per-minute)
-
 ### General Provider Estimates
 
 The provider costs listed below are subject to change as we get more data, but they will always reflect our best estimate of the provider costs per minute: