AI cost calculator.

Estimate what an AI feature will cost per month, compare two models, and see when running locally would pay off.

Runs in your browser. Nothing is sent or stored. Enter current prices from your provider.

Estimate costs How it works

Calculator

What will your AI usage cost?

Enter your usage and the prices from each provider’s own pricing page. Prices change often, so none are built in.

Your usage

Requests per day

Input tokens per request

Output tokens per request

Days of use per month

Discount or cache saving (%)

Model A: price per million tokens (currency of your choice)

Name

Input price

Output price

Model B (to compare)

Name

Input price

Output price

Running it locally instead (optional)

Hardware cost, one-off

Running cost per month

The default prices are placeholders to show how it works, not real prices. Estimates exclude tax, hidden usage such as long conversations that re-send history, and any minimum commitments.

How it works

You pay per token, in and out.

Tokens

Small pieces of text.

Roughly four characters, or three quarters of a word, each. Input is what you send, output is what the AI writes back.

Two prices

Output usually costs more.

Providers charge separately for input and output, often with output several times dearer. Long answers add up quickly.

Local models

Hardware, not tokens.

Running a model on your own hardware costs money up front and to run, but not per request. It pays off at higher, steady volume.

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