Cost Calculator — Live Market Moderation

Active Sellers / Month

Live Market baseline: 27,000

Avg Sessions / Seller / Month

Live Market baseline: ~15

Avg Stream Duration (min)

Live Market baseline: 257 min (~4.3 hrs)

Snapshot Interval (seconds)

Detection Model

S3 Retention (days)

0 = delete after processing

Include IVS Real-Time

IVS is streaming infra, not moderation

Amazon Bedrock / Rekognition

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AWS Lambda

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Amazon S3

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Amazon IVS Real-Time

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Amazon DynamoDB

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CloudWatch Logs

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Manual Moderation vs AI — Cost Comparison

Manual Coverage Target

Coverage: 50% of streams reviewed

Moderator Hourly Rate ($)

Fully loaded cost (salary + benefits + tools)

Streams per Moderator (concurrent)

How many streams one moderator watches at once

Moderator Shift Hours / Day

Hours per shift (need 24h coverage)

👥 Manual Moderation

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🤖 AI Moderation (100% coverage)

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Monthly Savings with AI

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Annual Savings

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Coverage Tier Breakdown

Coverage	Moderators Needed	Manual Cost/Mo	AI Cost/Mo	Savings	Savings %

Pricing sourced from AWS Bedrock, Rekognition, IVS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB pricing pages (us-east-1). Last verified March 2026.