LLM API Token & Cost Calculator

Bills for language models are surprising in one direction only. The prices below are entered by hand so that the calculation stays correct when they change - what matters is the split between input, cached input and output.

Input tokens per request

Output tokens per request

Requests per month

Share of the input read from cache (%)

Prices per million tokens, in the currency of the invoice

Input

Output

Cached input

Discount

Estimate tokens from a text (optional)

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