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AI Cost Calculators

These tools help you estimate what AI model usage actually costs. Pick a provider and model from the dropdown, enter your token counts and request volume, and see the spend per request, per day and per month before you commit. Model availability, pricing and specifications may change — verify pricing directly with the provider before making business decisions.

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What AI cost calculators are for

AI is priced per token, per image or per GPU hour, which makes it hard to translate usage into the number that matters: what you will pay at the end of the month. These calculators take the inputs you already know — prompt length, expected requests, model choice — and return a predictable spend estimate you can budget against.

They are built for founders sizing an AI feature, engineers comparing models before committing, and finance teams checking whether the unit economics still work once usage grows tenfold.

How the estimates work

Every calculator runs entirely in your browser. You enter volumes and per-unit prices, the maths happens as you type, and nothing is uploaded. Because provider pricing changes often, each tool includes a custom pricing option so you can enter the exact rates from your own invoice.

Results are shown per request, per day, per month on a 30-day basis and per year, so estimates from different tools stay directly comparable.

Frequently asked questions

How accurate are these AI cost estimates?

They are as accurate as the inputs. The token maths is exact, so if your token counts and per-million rates match reality the estimate will be within a few percent of your invoice. Measure your real average token counts from provider logs for the best result.

What is a token?

A token is a chunk of text, roughly four characters or three quarters of a word in English. Providers bill separately for input tokens (what you send) and output tokens (what the model writes back), and output is normally the more expensive of the two.

Which AI calculator should I start with?

If you are pricing a single API feature, start with the OpenAI, Claude or Gemini calculator for your provider, or the LLM cost calculator to compare providers side by side. For conversational products use the chatbot calculator, for multi-step automation use the agent calculator, and for a knowledge base use the RAG calculator.

Do the calculators include hosting and infrastructure?

No. They cover model and API usage only. Vector databases, servers, storage and monitoring are priced per hour or per index rather than per token, so add those as fixed monthly line items.

Is any of my data sent to a server?

No. Every calculation runs locally in your browser, so nothing you type is stored, logged or transmitted.

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