Cost Simulator
Translate token economics into real-world spend scenarios
Configuration
~1 pages of text
~375 words generated
100 requests/day = 3000/month
Adjust the sliders to reflect your infrastructure and usage patterns. Savings compound.
Concise, structured prompts cost less. Tightening filler, pruning few-shot examples, and (at the high end) using prompt compression tools all reduce input tokens.
When your prompts repeat the same context — system instructions, documents, conversation history — providers charge less to read it the second time.
Not every request needs your top model. Sending simpler ones to a cheaper Fast-tier model brings the blended cost down.
Work that doesn't need an instant answer — overnight reports, bulk processing, evals — runs cheaper through batch APIs.
List price is rarely what enterprises pay. Cloud credits, volume deals, reserved capacity, and private deployment each lower the effective rate.
Cheapest Option
$1.05/mo
Claude Haiku 5.5
Most Expensive
$105.00/mo
Claude Fable 5.1
How the savings stack up
No single lever does the heavy lifting — the savings come from stacking them. Pick a model to see where its cost actually goes.
Monthly cost (USD)
Estimated costs
100× cost spread| # | Model | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-6 Astra OpenAI | $105.00 |
| 2 | Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic | $105.00 |
| 3 | Muse Wonder Meta | $42.00 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic | $42.00 |
| 5 | Kimi K3.1 Pro MoonshotAI | $21.00 |
| 6 | Gemini 4 Argon | $21.00 |
| 7 | GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI | $21.00 |
| 8 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic | $21.00 |
| 9 | Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral | $15.75 |
| 10 | Grok 4.7 xAI | $15.00 |
| 11 | Qwen 3.8 Max Qwen | $15.00 |
| 12 | GLM-5.3 Z.ai | $10.80 |
| 13 | GPT-6.1 Terra OpenAI | $10.50 |
| 14 | Muse Spark 1.3 Meta | $10.13 |
| 15 | GPT-5.4 Mini OpenAI | $9.00 |
| 16 | Gemini 3.8 Flash | $7.88 |
| 17 | Mistral Large 4 Mistral | $5.25 |
| 18 | DeepSeek V4-Pro DeepSeek | $4.95 |
| 19 | Qwen 3.7 Plus Qwen | $3.60 |
| 20 | MiniMax M3 MiniMax | $2.70 |
| 21 | MiniMax M3.1 Flash MiniMax | $1.35 |
| 22 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek | $1.35 |
| 23 | GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | $1.20 |
| 24 | Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic | $1.05 |
| 25 | GPT-6 Luna OpenAI | $1.05 |