LLM cost calculator
What will your token usage cost per month? Estimate monthly API costs across every generative model we track — 178 models at verified prices. Adjust your usage pattern to find the cheapest fit.
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MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-09
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top 15 cheapest for your patternGenerative text models only — embedding & reranker models (input-only pricing), OCR-specialty models, and realtime audio models are excluded because their pricing isn't comparable to a text input/output workload.
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Prices in USD per 1M tokens · sorted cheapest first · every price links to its source on the model page.
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