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Price data last verified: June 23, 2026

AI API costs, laid bare before the invoice bites.

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AI Token Cost Calculator

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Enter token estimates. Pick models. See the spend line before it grows teeth.

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Prices use the current verified model snapshot. Keep room for retries, tool calls, and long outputs.

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How it Works

The calculator uses vendor pricing per 1 million tokens. It multiplies your input token estimate by the model input rate and your output token estimate by the model output rate, then adds both values for the total request cost.

Token Estimation Guide

Rough conversion only. Actual tokenization varies by language, punctuation, and formatting.

Estimated Tokens	Approx. Words	Typical Usage
1,000	~750 words	Short blog post or long email
10,000	~7,500 words	Landing page + docs draft
50,000	~37,500 words	Feature spec + test scenarios
100,000	~75,000 words	Large report or multi-file analysis

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Data Sources & Methodology

Verification Status

Last VerifiedJune 23, 2026

Update FrequencyWeekly

Data SourceOfficial provider pricing pages and official model cards only

Normalization

Moonshot AI prices are published in CNY and converted to USD here using a 6.90 CNY/USD snapshot for June 22, 2026. Kimi rows use cache-miss input prices because that is the conservative default for new requests. OpenAI, Gemini, Alibaba Cloud Qwen, and Z.AI rows use standard input and output token pricing from official USD pricing tables unless a row-level note states otherwise. Alibaba Cloud Qwen prices can vary by deployment scope, so each affected row states whether it uses International, Global, or Chinese Mainland pricing.

Official Pricing Pages

OpenAI↗Anthropic↗Google AI↗Alibaba Cloud↗Zhipu AI↗DeepSeek↗Moonshot AI↗MiniMax↗Mistral AI↗xAI↗Groq↗

Disclaimer: Prices are subject to change. Always verify current pricing on official provider websites before making business decisions.