LLM Cost Comparator (Cross-Provider)
Type a token count (input + output) and a request volume; get a side-by-side cost comparison across major model providers. Useful for choosing a model when cost matters as much as quality — and for sanity-checking what your monthly bill should look like.
How to use the LLM Cost Comparator (Cross-Provider)
Set input + output tokens per request and your monthly request volume. The table shows per-request and per-month cost for each model. Prices are list rates as of mid-2026 — production negotiated rates or batch API pricing can be 30-50% lower; use these as a ceiling.
Comparing model prices on one workload
API pricing is quoted per million tokens, split into an input rate and a usually-higher output rate, and the numbers vary by an order of magnitude across providers. That makes a raw price list hard to act on — what matters is the cost of your workload: a particular input and output size, multiplied by your monthly request volume.
This comparator takes those three numbers and prints a per-request and per-month figure for each major model side by side, so a model that looks cheap per token can turn out expensive once output-heavy traffic is factored in. The rates are public list prices; negotiated enterprise deals and the Batch API can run lower, so treat the result as a ceiling.
Common use cases
- Model selection — pick a model when cost weighs as heavily as quality.
- Bill forecasting — sanity-check what a feature should cost per month before launch.
- Output-heavy workloads — see how a high output rate dominates when answers are long.
- Provider switching — estimate the savings of moving the same traffic to another model.
- Budget conversations — bring concrete monthly numbers to a planning discussion.