[krick]

It's not even remotely a good answer. You may charge $200/hour and take a week to build simple HTML/JS web-page (portfolio/landing sort of thing, for example). Good for you, but no way I'm paying you 8000 bucks for something that some school kid can make for me for $20 and an hour.

Unless you are a brand and can charge whatever the fuck you like for your work — things typically have a cost. You know how much a cup of coffee costs, a laptop, a car, a house. Chatbots and web-pages have their market price as well.

(And FWIW, I don't know, maybe it's ok kinda price in USA, but to me all this doesn't sound like a $5000 deal.)

[literallycancer]

>You know how much a cup of coffee costs, a laptop, a car, a house. Chatbots and web-pages have their market price as well.

You are thinking that people charge some amount derived from their costs. But it's more like people charge as much as they can (as the market allows) and the actual costs are only important as a lower bound - there is no higher bound.

[krick]

I'm not thinking that, I don't know where you got that impression.

[literallycancer]

It seemed like you were enumerating things that would be considered a cost, as if to imply something like "my costs are so and so because I need to afford X and Y, and my rate is based on my costs". Now that I'm reading it again, I guess it's indeed not the most obvious interpretation.