Architecture

Technical architecture and costs

Costs

Vault Creation

  • Free - no charge to create vaults
  • S3 buckets created on-demand

Storage Costs (AWS S3)

  • Documents: ~$0.023/GB/month
  • Vectors: ~$0.023/GB/month (much smaller)
  • Example: 100 depositions (30GB) = ~$0.70/month

Ingestion Costs

  • OCR: $0.01-0.03 per page (if scanned)
  • Embeddings: ~$0.000026 per 1K tokens
  • Example: 150-page scanned deposition = ~$2-4 for OCR + ~$0.15 for embeddings

Search Costs (Future)

  • Per query: ~$0.000026 (embedding your search query)
  • Vector search: Milliseconds, negligible cost
  • Example: 1000 searches/month = ~$0.03

Total example: Managing 50 depositions (7,500 pages) = ~$100-150 one-time + ~$5/month storage