From unit price x fleet size
The model starts from the number of AGV vehicles and the purchase price per unit including integration.
ROI Tool
How Much Does an AGV Cost? ROI Calculator for Warehouse and Manufacturing Automation
ROI (Return on Investment) shows how quickly an AGV rollout starts paying back in your internal logistics process.
Compare your current process cost with an AGV fleet purchase scenario and estimate CAPEX, annual savings and payback time for warehouse or production automation.
Kalkulator ROI
ROI, czyli zwrot z inwestycji, pokazuje relację między kosztem wdrożenia a spodziewanymi oszczędnościami.
Przykładowy model ROI AGVWpisane wartości są przykładowymi parametrami startowymi. Zmień je pod swój proces, wolumen i scenariusz wdrożenia.
Wynik na żywo Podsumowanie ROI
Cost and ROI
How much does an AGV cost?
The cost of an AGV rollout is not one number. You need to look at fleet CAPEX, annual maintenance cost and the baseline cost of the manual process you want to replace.
Mostly service
After purchase, the model focuses on annual service cost instead of ongoing manual labor and rental cost.
Labor + optional rental
The current process cost is built from operator cost and, when relevant, manual forklift rental.
What is a realistic annual AGV maintenance cost?
A useful planning shortcut is to express AGV maintenance as a percentage of fleet CAPEX. In many early-stage business cases, that makes comparison much easier than trying to model every spare part and intervention separately.
This calculator uses annual service as a percentage of purchase cost, so you can immediately see how a 3%, 5% or 7% service assumption changes total cost and payback.
How many months does AGV payback usually take?
Payback depends on route frequency, number of shifts, labor cost, rental cost and how much of the manual process can actually be replaced.
The fastest payback usually appears in repetitive, multi-shift pallet flows where manual transport is expensive and operational exceptions are limited.
ROI model assumptions
Fleet and process scope
The model starts from a defined number of AGV vehicles, operators and shifts in one repeatable transport scenario.
Real labor cost
Operator cost includes gross salary, employer burden and hidden costs such as absence, onboarding and equipment.
Manual rental benchmark
If the current process runs on rental forklifts, the model can include that annual cost in the manual baseline.
Comparable energy footprint
The calculator keeps energy out of the core model because AGV and manual electric trucks are often comparable at this stage.
Example for a warehouse pallet flow
In the default example, the model compares a repetitive 3-shift pallet flow with a 2-vehicle AGV fleet:
- 2 AGV vehicles in the purchase scenario
- 1 operator in the manual baseline
- 3-shift operation
- EUR 140,000 fleet CAPEX
- EUR 7,000 annual service at a 5% CAPEX assumption
- About 25.6 months payback in the default setup
Use the calculator as the first step, not the last one
Once you see the rough CAPEX, maintenance share and payback logic, compare the result with the detailed ROI article or move straight to a process discussion.