LLM Pricing Tools & Guides
Free reference guides for LLM API pricing, model comparison, tokenization, and cost estimation.
Token Cost Calculator
Turn a token count into money across 13 models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, with cached reads and cache writes priced separately.
OpenAI API Cost Calculator
A monthly OpenAI bill across eight models with cached reads, cache writes, the batch discount and the long context tier applied, from dual-verified rates.
OpenAI Batch API
Half price inside a 24h window. Price a batch across seven models, copy the five calls, and check the queue limits first.
Batch API Savings Calculator
What the 50% batch discount is worth on your own job size, model by model.
Image Generation API Cost Calculator
Per-image and monthly cost for GPT Image tiers and FLUX, with retries and aspect ratios priced in.
Speech API Cost Calculator
TTS and Whisper costs per minute and month — including the per-request rounding penalty most teams miss.
Prompt Caching Break Even Calculator
How many cache reads a prefix needs before the write premium pays for itself.
Self Host vs API Break Even
The monthly token volume where running your own GPU starts to beat paying per token.
OpenRouter Pricing Calculator
Exact per-token costs across 434 OpenRouter models with live rates. Compare providers, margin, and monthly spend.
Claude API Pricing Guide 2026
Compare Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus costs per million tokens. Batch API discounts and optimization tips.
GPT-4 API Pricing Guide 2026
GPT-4o, GPT-4 Turbo, and GPT-4o mini pricing comparison with Claude equivalents.
LLM Model Comparison 2026
Side-by-side comparison of 13+ models across pricing, context windows, and capabilities.
LLM Token Counter
Understand tokenization, estimate token counts, and calculate API costs from tokens.
LLM API Cost Calculator Guide
Estimate monthly spend for chatbots, content generation, code assistants, and RAG pipelines.
Interactive LLM Cost Calculator
Compare GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek costs with per-request, daily, monthly, and yearly projections.
LLM Fine-Tuning Cost Calculator
Estimate training cost, training time, and tokens processed for GPT-4o mini, Llama 3, Mistral, and Gemma. Break-even vs API inference included.
Deployment Guides
About These Guides
Each guide provides detailed, up-to-date pricing data sourced directly from official provider documentation. We cover Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (GPT-4), Google (Gemini), Meta (Llama via Groq), and Mistral. Pricing data is updated regularly as providers announce changes. All guides include structured FAQ sections, practical cost optimization strategies, and cross-references to related resources. Use the KickLLM calculator for interactive cost modeling with real-time comparisons across all providers.
Built by Michael Lip. Pricing data updated regularly from official provider pages.