LLM API Workload Cost Calculator
No token math required. Pick a use case, enter your volume, and see how much each model costs you per month.
① Pick a use case
Choose the closest match — we'll prefill typical usage, then you can tweak it.
500 conversations/day, ~2000 input + 500 output tokens each
② Adjust your volume
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days
Days the service actually runs each month (use 30 for 24/7).
③ Monthly cost ranking
Based on 500 requests/day × 30 days/month, averaging 2,000 input + 500 output tokens:
Cheapest
Phi-4-mini
$0.900 / mo
Lowest total monthly cost
Best Value
Phi-4-mini
$0.900 / mo
Highest quality score ÷ cost
Top Performance
gpt-5.6-sol
Quality 98
Highest benchmark quality score
1
Phi-4-miniCheapestBest Value
Microsoft· Quality 68
$0.900/ mo
$0.030 / day · $0.00006 / req
2
qwen3.5-flash
Alibaba· Quality 82
$1.88/ mo
$0.063 / day · $0.00013 / req
3
qwen-turbo
Alibaba· Quality 74
$3.00/ mo
$0.100 / day · $0.00020 / req
4
Phi-4
Microsoft· Quality 76
$3.15/ mo
$0.105 / day · $0.00021 / req
5
Hunyuan HY3
Tencent· Quality 87
$3.46/ mo
$0.116 / day · $0.00023 / req
6
qwen3.5
Alibaba· Quality 91
$4.13/ mo
$0.138 / day · $0.00028 / req
7
Baichuan4-Air
Baichuan· Quality 70
$5.10/ mo
$0.170 / day · $0.00034 / req
8
Step 3.5 Flash
StepFun· Quality 79
$5.25/ mo
$0.175 / day · $0.00035 / req
9
Yi-Lightning
01.AI· Quality 78
$5.25/ mo
$0.175 / day · $0.00035 / req
10
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Microsoft· Quality 78
$5.40/ mo
$0.180 / day · $0.00036 / req
11
Hunyuan TurboS
Tencent· Quality 79
$5.40/ mo
$0.180 / day · $0.00036 / req
12
deepseek-v4-flash
DeepSeek· Quality 88
$6.30/ mo
$0.210 / day · $0.00042 / req
13
MAI-DS-R1
Microsoft· Quality 90
$6.30/ mo
$0.210 / day · $0.00042 / req
14
gpt-5.6-luna
OpenAI· Quality 90
$7.50/ mo
$0.250 / day · $0.00050 / req
15
gpt-4o-mini
OpenAI· Quality 80
$9.00/ mo
$0.300 / day · $0.00060 / req
16
qwen-plus
Alibaba· Quality 84
$13.65/ mo
$0.455 / day · $0.00091 / req
17
Step 3.7 Flash
StepFun· Quality 85
$14.63/ mo
$0.487 / day · $0.00097 / req
18
gpt-5.4-nano
OpenAI· Quality 75
$15.38/ mo
$0.513 / day · $0.00103 / req
19
deepseek-chat-v4
DeepSeek· Quality 88
$15.44/ mo
$0.515 / day · $0.00103 / req
20
codestral-latest
Mistral· Quality 80
$15.75/ mo
$0.525 / day · $0.00105 / req
21
ERNIE X1
Baidu· Quality 86
$16.65/ mo
$0.555 / day · $0.00111 / req
22
MiniMax-M3
MiniMax· Quality 89
$18.00/ mo
$0.600 / day · $0.00120 / req
23
gemini-3.1-flash-lite
Google· Quality 80
$18.75/ mo
$0.625 / day · $0.00125 / req
24
gemini-2.5-flash
Google· Quality 84
$18.75/ mo
$0.625 / day · $0.00125 / req
25
deepseek-reasoner-v4
DeepSeek· Quality 92
$19.57/ mo
$0.652 / day · $0.00130 / req
26
llama-3.3-70b-versatile
Groq· Quality 78
$23.63/ mo
$0.787 / day · $0.00158 / req
27
GLM-4.7
Zhipu· Quality 87
$25.13/ mo
$0.838 / day · $0.00168 / req
28
doubao-seed-2.1-turbo
ByteDance· Quality 85
$27.82/ mo
$0.927 / day · $0.00185 / req
29
qwen3.5-plus
Alibaba· Quality 89
$30.00/ mo
$1.00 / day · $0.00200 / req
30
meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo
Together AI· Quality 78
$33.00/ mo
$1.10 / day · $0.00220 / req
31
ERNIE 4.5
Baidu· Quality 84
$33.00/ mo
$1.10 / day · $0.00220 / req
32
ERNIE 5.1
Baidu· Quality 90
$37.58/ mo
$1.25 / day · $0.00251 / req
33
claude-haiku-4-5
Anthropic· Quality 82
$39.38/ mo
$1.31 / day · $0.00263 / req
34
Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-Turbo
Together AI· Quality 79
$45.00/ mo
$1.50 / day · $0.00300 / req
35
doubao-seed-2.1-pro
ByteDance· Quality 91
$55.95/ mo
$1.86 / day · $0.00373 / req
36
gemini-2.5-pro
Google· Quality 93
$56.25/ mo
$1.88 / day · $0.00375 / req
37
grok-4.20
xAI
$56.25/ mo
$1.88 / day · $0.00375 / req
38
gpt-5.4-mini
OpenAI· Quality 85
$56.25/ mo
$1.88 / day · $0.00375 / req
39
gemini-3.6-flash
Google
$57.38/ mo
$1.91 / day · $0.00383 / req
40
kimi-k2.6
Moonshot AI· Quality 90
$58.50/ mo
$1.95 / day · $0.00390 / req
41
o4-mini
OpenAI· Quality 88
$66.00/ mo
$2.20 / day · $0.00440 / req
42
gpt-5.6-terra
OpenAI· Quality 95
$75.00/ mo
$2.50 / day · $0.00500 / req
43
GLM-5.2
Zhipu· Quality 93
$75.00/ mo
$2.50 / day · $0.00500 / req
44
gemini-3.1-pro
Google· Quality 91
$90.00/ mo
$3.00 / day · $0.00600 / req
45
mistral-medium-3.5
Mistral· Quality 86
$101/ mo
$3.38 / day · $0.00675 / req
46
mistral-large-3
Mistral· Quality 82
$105/ mo
$3.50 / day · $0.00700 / req
47
grok-4.5
xAI· Quality 91
$105/ mo
$3.50 / day · $0.00700 / req
48
grok-4.3
xAI· Quality 89
$105/ mo
$3.50 / day · $0.00700 / req
49
Mistral-Large
Microsoft· Quality 82
$105/ mo
$3.50 / day · $0.00700 / req
50
qwen3.8-max
Alibaba· Quality 94
$105/ mo
$3.50 / day · $0.00700 / req
51
gemini-3.5-flash
Google· Quality 86
$113/ mo
$3.75 / day · $0.00750 / req
52
claude-sonnet-5
Anthropic
$118/ mo
$3.94 / day · $0.00788 / req
53
claude-sonnet-4-6
Anthropic· Quality 90
$118/ mo
$3.94 / day · $0.00788 / req
54
o3
OpenAI· Quality 95
$120/ mo
$4.00 / day · $0.00800 / req
55
claude-sonnet-5
Anthropic· Quality 92
$135/ mo
$4.50 / day · $0.00900 / req
56
gpt-4o
OpenAI· Quality 88
$150/ mo
$5.00 / day · $0.010 / req
57
command-a
Cohere· Quality 83
$150/ mo
$5.00 / day · $0.010 / req
58
command-r
Cohere· Quality 75
$150/ mo
$5.00 / day · $0.010 / req
59
gpt-5.4
OpenAI· Quality 92
$188/ mo
$6.25 / day · $0.013 / req
60
claude-opus-5
Anthropic· Quality 97
$197/ mo
$6.56 / day · $0.013 / req
61
claude-opus-4-8
Anthropic· Quality 94
$197/ mo
$6.56 / day · $0.013 / req
62
claude-opus-4-6
Anthropic· Quality 93
$197/ mo
$6.56 / day · $0.013 / req
63
kimi-k3
Moonshot AI· Quality 95
$203/ mo
$6.75 / day · $0.013 / req
64
gpt-5.6-solTop Performance
OpenAI· Quality 98
$375/ mo
$12.50 / day · $0.025 / req
65
gpt-5.5
OpenAI· Quality 97
$375/ mo
$12.50 / day · $0.025 / req
66
Baichuan4
Baichuan· Quality 80
$521/ mo
$17.36 / day · $0.035 / req
67
claude-fable-5
Anthropic· Quality 96
$675/ mo
$22.50 / day · $0.045 / req
68
claude-mythos-5
Anthropic· Quality 96
$675/ mo
$22.50 / day · $0.045 / req
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