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API Cost Calculator — Forecast Token Spend

Private, client-side calculation

API Cost Calculator

Forecast request volume, token spend, cache savings and budget burn before you ship.

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STEP 01🔢
Enter traffic & tokens
Add daily request volume plus average input and output tokens per call.
STEP 02💸
Set token prices
Use your provider’s input/output price per 1M tokens and optional cache or batch discounts.
STEP 03📊
Review spend risk
See monthly cost, budget burn, cost per 1K requests, savings and scale advice.
Monthly Cost
Enter usage
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Daily Cost
avg spend / day
📅
Cost / 1K Req
blended request cost
⚙️
Budget Used
monthly budget
🎯
Savings
cache + batch
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API Usage & Pricing
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Cost Breakdown
📊

Hit Calculate to see your cost split

Budget Burn Risk
🎯

Set a budget and calculate

API Cost Metrics
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Metrics appear after calculation

✦ Result Explainer

Your explanation appears here

▣ Optimization Plan
📋

Your plan appears after calculation

◎ What If Simulator

Stress-test scale by changing traffic and output length without changing your main result.

Calculate your baseline first

● Ask About Your Result
Calculate first, then ask about budget burn, token mix, caching or scale risk.
Frequently Asked Questions

It multiplies requests per day by input and output tokens per request, applies your price per 1M tokens, then adjusts for cached-input pricing and batch discounts. Everything runs locally in your browser.

Many AI APIs bill prompt/input tokens and generated/output tokens at different rates. Output tokens are often more expensive, so long responses can dominate the final monthly cost.

No. The calculator uses client-side JavaScript only. It does not fetch external APIs, send usage values, store data in localStorage, or require an API key.

Developer Cost Disclaimer

Results are estimates generated locally from the usage and pricing values you enter. Provider prices, discounts, taxes, minimum charges, retries, tool calls, images, embeddings, storage and rounding can change the final invoice. Always verify against your provider’s current pricing page and billing export before making production or procurement decisions. VisionVix accepts no liability for decisions based on this output.

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