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OpenAI API Lowest estimate
GPT-4o mini
$3.08/ month equivalent
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LLM APIs, with the math.
Compare token pricing, prompt caching savings, and inference costs across foundation models.
Commercial API inference for generative language and reasoning models. Shared multi-tenant API endpoints, standard rate limits, and pay-as-you-go billing without committed use discounts or provisioned throughput. Fine-tuning, batch API discounts, embeddings, and audio generation are excluded.
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Your workload
Monthly usage. Adjust the assumptions to match your product.
tokens / month
Uncached input prompt tokens processed by the model API.
Maximum 10,000,000,000 tokens / monthtokens / month
Generated completion and reasoning tokens returned by the model API.
Maximum 2,000,000,000 tokens / monthtokens / month
Prompt tokens read from context cache (system prompts, docs).
Maximum 10,000,000,000 tokens / monthEstimates are in USD before taxes. Your usage stays in this URL.
| Decision guideOne shared workload. Different trade-offs. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly equivalentUSD · before tax | $3.08Lowest in your shortlistGPT-4o mini | $10.43Llama 3.3 70B (Groq) | Not availableDeepSeek-R1 |
| Payment commitment | Monthly | Monthly | Monthly |
| Fits this workload? | Within modeled limits | Within modeled limits | Outside modeled limits |
| What to know | Automatic 50% prompt caching discount applies to prompts with 1,024+ identical leading tokens. | Industry-leading 250+ tokens per second inference speeds on dedicated LPU hardware. | Current DeepSeek pricing lists V4 models. This legacy R1 model and its historical token rates are not supported by the current pricing source. 1 more conditions
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| Outside the estimate | Fine-tuning, Batch API discounts, audio/realtime APIs, and image generation. | Context prompt caching discounts, vision inputs on this model. | This pricing model is not supported. |
| Evidence | Official pricing ↗Checked 2026-10-06 | Official pricing ↗Checked 2026-10-06 | Official pricing ↗Checked 2026-10-08 |
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OpenAI APIGroq Cloud
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| Standard input tokens | OpenAI API | Groq Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000,000 tokens / month | $1.73 | $5.12 |
| 1,000,001 tokens / month | $1.73 | $5.12 |
| 4,500,000 tokens / month | $2.25 | $7.19 |
| 8,000,000 tokens / month | $2.78 | $9.25 |
| 10,000,000 tokens / month | $3.08 | $10.43 |
| 11,500,000 tokens / month | $3.30 | $11.32 |
| 15,000,000 tokens / month | $3.83 | $13.38 |
| 18,500,000 tokens / month | $4.35 | $15.45 |
| 22,000,000 tokens / month | $4.88 | $17.51 |
| 25,500,000 tokens / month | $5.40 | $19.58 |
| 29,000,000 tokens / month | $5.93 | $21.64 |
| 32,500,000 tokens / month | $6.45 | $23.71 |
| 36,000,000 tokens / month | $6.98 | $25.77 |
| 39,500,000 tokens / month | $7.50 | $27.84 |
| 43,000,000 tokens / month | $8.03 | $29.90 |
| 46,500,000 tokens / month | $8.55 | $31.97 |
| 50,000,000 tokens / month | $9.07 | $34.03 |
| 53,500,000 tokens / month | $9.60 | $36.10 |
| 60,500,000 tokens / month | $10.65 | $40.23 |
| 64,000,000 tokens / month | $11.18 | $42.29 |
| 67,500,000 tokens / month | $11.70 | $44.36 |
| 71,000,000 tokens / month | $12.23 | $46.42 |
| 74,500,000 tokens / month | $12.75 | $48.49 |
| 78,000,000 tokens / month | $13.28 | $50.55 |
| 81,500,000 tokens / month | $13.80 | $52.62 |
| 85,000,000 tokens / month | $14.33 | $54.68 |
| 88,500,000 tokens / month | $14.85 | $56.75 |
| 92,000,000 tokens / month | $15.38 | $58.81 |
| 95,500,000 tokens / month | $15.90 | $60.88 |
| 99,000,000 tokens / month | $16.43 | $62.94 |
| 102,500,000 tokens / month | $16.95 | $65.01 |
| 106,000,000 tokens / month | $17.48 | $67.07 |
| 109,500,000 tokens / month | $18.00 | $69.14 |
| 113,000,000 tokens / month | $18.52 | $71.20 |
| 120,000,000 tokens / month | $19.58 | $75.33 |
Your monthly comparison
2 eligible products in this loaded set · Lowest modeled cost first
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Llama 3.3 70B (Groq)
$10.43/ month equivalent
2 plans outside this workload
Anthropic Claude · Claude 3.5 Haiku
Claude 3.5 Haiku retired on February 19, 2026. This model is unavailable on the Claude API. Claude 3.5 Sonnet retired on October 28, 2025. This model is unavailable on the Claude API.
DeepSeek API · DeepSeek-R1
Current DeepSeek pricing lists V4 models. This legacy R1 model and its historical token rates are not supported by the current pricing source. Current DeepSeek pricing lists V4 models. This legacy V3 model and its historical token rates are not supported by the current pricing source.
Prices reflect dated, supported plans. Matching a category does not mean matching features. How estimates work
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