Developer Cost Arbitrage
AI Token & API Cost Matrix
Compare per-million token pricing across frontier providers. Calculate your actual monthly SaaS bill before writing a line of code.
📅 Reference prices, may be out of date · Per 1 Million Tokens (1M)
⚡ Live App Bill Simulator
Adjust the parameters below to compute your exact API expenditure across models.
Reference prices, may be out of date
2,500
5
600
300
Monthly Prompts:
375,000
Input Volume:
225.0M tok
Output Volume:
112.5M tok
Arbitrage Potential:
$2,210 / mo
| Frontier Model | Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Throughput | Your App Bill | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
DeepSeek V3
Lowest Cost Frontier
|
DeepSeek | $0.140 | $0.280 | 64k | ⚡ 70 tok/s | $0.00 / month | API Key ↗ |
|
Gemini 1.5 Flash
1M Context King
|
Google Cloud | $0.075 | $0.300 | 1M | ⚡ 185 tok/s | $0.00 / month | API Key ↗ |
|
GPT-4o mini
High Reliability
|
OpenAI | $0.150 | $0.600 | 128k | ⚡ 120 tok/s | $0.00 / month | API Key ↗ |
|
Llama-3.3 70B (Groq)
310 Tokens/sec Blazing
|
Groq Cloud | $0.590 | $0.790 | 128k | ⚡ 310 tok/s | $0.00 / month | API Key ↗ |
|
DeepSeek R1
Open Reasoning Titan
|
DeepSeek | $0.550 | $2.190 | 64k | ⚡ 45 tok/s | $0.00 / month | API Key ↗ |
|
GPT-4o
Industry Benchmark
|
OpenAI | $2.500 | $10.000 | 128k | ⚡ 85 tok/s | $0.00 / month | API Key ↗ |
|
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
#1 Coding & Vision
|
Anthropic | $3.000 | $15.000 | 200k | ⚡ 75 tok/s | $0.00 / month | API Key ↗ |
|
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Fast Anthropic
|
Anthropic | $0.800 | $4.000 | 200k | ⚡ 140 tok/s | $0.00 / month | API Key ↗ |
|
Gemini 1.5 Pro
2M Massive Context
|
Google Cloud | $1.250 | $5.000 | 2M | ⚡ 65 tok/s | $0.00 / month | API Key ↗ |