Advanced assumptions
What's included / excluded
Estimated cost of the selected models for one monthly token workload, with prompt caching, Batch and long prompts. Performance, throughput and latency are not assumed to be equal.
Included
- Input and output tokens at each model's rates per 1M tokens
- Cached input, cache writes and Gemini's cache storage
- Batch processing
- Prompts above a model's standard price band
Not included
- Flex, Priority and other processing modes
- Tool use such as web search, grounding or code execution
- Taxes, credits and negotiated discounts
- Model quality, speed or capability equivalence
Prices modeled: GPT-6 Astra · OpenAI API; GPT-6.1 Sol · OpenAI API; GPT-6.1 Terra · OpenAI API; GPT-6 Luna · OpenAI API; Claude Fable 5.1 · Claude API; Claude Opus 5.5 · Claude API; Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Claude API; Claude Haiku 5.5 · Claude API; Gemini 4 Argon · Gemini API; Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview · Gemini API; Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · Gemini API.
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