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T9 Token Budget helps engineering and finance teams estimate, compare, and optimize AI costs across models, providers, and use cases.
- Accurate pricingManually verified
- 15 leading AI providersOne place
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Turn AI usage into a budget you can explain
Define your workload, understand where the cost comes from, and compare available estimates before you scale.
Describe the workload
Choose a use case, model, message sizes, and volume. The chatbot calculator walks you through it.
See the cost breakdown
Get a Low / Likely / High monthly range, split into the assumptions that drove it.
Compare available estimates
Check the numbers against the model pricing reference before you commit to a plan.
Covering 15 leading AI providers
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Mistral AI
- DeepSeek
- Kimi
- Qwen
- Z.ai
- MiniMax
- xAI
- Cohere
- Amazon
- IBM
- Meta
- AI21
Provider names are shown for comparison only. T9 Token Budget is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to any AI provider.
Understand the 5 key drivers of AI cost
Token Volume
Input, output, and total tokens drive the majority of your spend.
Context Length
Longer context = more tokens. Optimize prompts and history.
Frequency
More requests mean higher costs. Batch and cache where possible.
Efficiency
Prompt design, caching, and model routing reduce waste and cost.
Estimate your AI cost in seconds
Adjust the inputs to see how the estimate changes.
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Estimated Cost
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$0.001615 / 1K tokens
Compare model pricing
All prices per 1M tokens (USD).
Prices manually verified against official provider pages as of 2026-09-08. See the methodology and pricing pages for sources and exclusions.
| Model | Input (1M) | Output (1M) |
|---|---|---|
| GPT-5.4 | $2.50 | $15.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| GPT-5.4 Mini | $0.75 | $4.50 |
| Mistral Large 3 | $0.50 | $1.50 |
| DeepSeek V4-Flash | $0.22 | $0.66 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1.00 | $5.00 |
| GPT-5.5 | $5.00 | $30.00 |
Find your calculator
Every workload has its own token pattern. Pick the one closest to yours.
- Chatbot cost calculator
Customer-support or sales chatbot conversations
- Meeting summary calculator
Summarizing meeting transcripts into notes
- Document summary calculator
Summarizing long documents and reports
- Document Q&A calculator
Answering questions over your own documents
- AI agent cost calculator
Multi-step AI agents completing tasks with tool calls
- Data extraction cost calculator
Extracting structured data from invoices, forms, and documents
- Translation cost calculator
Translating documents and content with general-purpose LLMs
- Classification & moderation cost calculator
Sentiment, intent, topic labeling, moderation, and safety review
- LLM evaluation / judge cost calculator
Using an LLM to score, compare, or benchmark AI responses
- Synthetic data generation cost calculator
Generating synthetic training examples and structured datasets
Trusted data. Transparent methodology.
We source pricing directly from each provider’s official page and normalize it across models so estimates stay comparable. Prices are manually re-checked against those official sources, not pulled automatically.
- Official pricing sources
- Manually verified
- Normalized and verified
- Transparent methodology
15 AI providers tracked
37 Models priced
2026-09-08 Pricing last verified
Guides, tutorials, and best practices
Guide
What are AI tokens?
A quick primer on tokens, context windows, and cost.
Read guide GuideWhy is my AI API bill higher than expected?
The common reasons a real bill drifts above your estimate.
Read guide MethodologyHow T9 Token Budget calculates AI costs
How we source, normalize, and verify pricing data.
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