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 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.

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.

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

LLM Deployment Checklist

Interactive 40-step checklist across 6 phases from model selection to production. Progress saved locally, export as text.

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.

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