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AI API Cost Planner
Plan and optimize AI API costs before you build.
Estimate monthly AI costs, compare LLM models, calculate cost per user, and avoid surprise API bills using provider pricing data.
Official sources
7 providers, 50 models
Verified records keep provider source links with model pricing.
Last verified
Sep 9, 2026
Uses the latest successful official-source verification date.
Estimate limits
Conditions matter
Pricing may vary by tier, caching, batch usage, modality, or token threshold.
Monthly planner
Estimate SaaS AI cost and margin
Start with active users, requests per user, token usage, cache assumptions, and optional revenue per user.
Planner results
Your calculated monthly cost appears here after you run an estimate.
Enter your usage details, then select Calculate estimate to see your projected cost.
Estimated cost = input usage cost + output usage cost + supported optional charges.
Next paths
Choose the fastest way forward
Estimate your costs, browse providers, or compare pricing side by side.
Popular use cases
Start from the workflow you are building
Use a focused calculator when you already know the product scenario.
AI Chatbot Cost Calculator
Estimate product chat and assistant usage from users, messages, and tokens.
RAG Cost Calculator
Plan retrieval-heavy app costs from query volume, context, and answer length.
AI Agent Cost Calculator
Estimate multi-step agent cost from tasks, tool calls, and token usage.
SaaS AI Cost Calculator
Estimate SaaS AI feature cost per user and margin impact.
Featured comparisons
Compare common model and provider choices
Open a concise comparison, then run the same usage assumptions through the calculator.
OpenAI vs Anthropic Pricing
Compare verified OpenAI and Anthropic model prices, calculated unit-price differences, and one explicitly defined monthly token workload.
GPT-4o Mini vs Claude Haiku Cost
Claude Haiku resolves to an exact canonical model. GPT-4o mini is absent from current CostRivo pricing data, so no OpenAI model price is substituted.
Claude Sonnet vs GPT-4o Cost
Claude Sonnet resolves to exact canonical Anthropic pricing. GPT-4o is absent from current CostRivo pricing data and remains unresolved.
How CostRivo works
Turn model pricing into product decisions
CostRivo connects official pricing references with usage assumptions so teams can compare scenarios before launch.
Choose a pricing source
Start from a calculator, provider page, or comparison table backed by the shared pricing dataset.
Model real usage
Estimate users, request volume, input tokens, output tokens, cache usage, and optional revenue.
Compare outcomes
Review monthly spend, cost per user, cost per request, and lower-cost alternatives before launch.
Recheck pricing
Use official-source links and pricing update notes before committing high-volume usage.
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