A real Echo is a one-time build (voice clone, portrait, and the memory and personality intake that makes it actually sound like you) plus a monthly cost to keep it running, since every conversation is a live model call and every spoken reply is a live voice call. Every number below is a starting assumption you can adjust, this is a planning estimate, not a locked price.
There is no total on this page, deliberately. Most of the price is how many photos you bring, and nobody knows that until they are looking at them. You choose on the next page, with each photo in front of you, and it adds up as you go.
The build isn't a one-time snapshot. Life keeps happening, and so does the account itself.
Why there is a monthly at all. An Echo is not software sitting on a shelf. Every time somebody talks to it, it thinks, searches its memory for what actually matters, and answers in a real voice. That costs money on the day it happens, not once when it was built. The monthly is that, and nothing else.
It is flat for a household. The same every month whether an Echo is spoken to twice or every day. What it does not cover is an Echo used like a service, by a large group, at volume. If that is what you need, say so and we will price it properly rather than quietly meter you. And we are not going to be the reason a conversation stops.
Adding new memories later. A handful of new entries now and then, a birthday, a grandchild, a new job, is included in the monthly hosting, no extra charge. A real re-intake session, updating a lot of content across the four lanes at once, is billed the same way the original build was: design/testing hours at the same hourly rate.
Legacy and transfer. The hope is the original plan already covers this, a legacy option built in from the start so continuity is already paid for. But this is never treated as a strict billing rule: an Echo is never cancelled over a lapsed payment caused by a transfer like this. If it passes to a spouse or child who can't or doesn't pay right away, it keeps running rather than getting shut off during what's already a hard moment.
Everything above is an estimate. Next you upload 30 seconds of their voice and a photo or two, and choose which photos should become a video loop. The exact price is worked out from what you actually choose, and you get an invoice then. Nothing is charged on this page.
Why the build fee isn't nothing. A real Echo isn't a chatbot with a photo, it's a voice clone, a real portrait, cross-session memory, and hours spent turning your actual stories, personality, and mood patterns into something that sounds like you, not a generic warm assistant.
Note: treat every number on this page as a draft until it's actually signed off.