AI API monthly cost calculator

Estimate AI inference and token costs from your request volume, input/output tokens, caching and batch usage. Compare up to four models and their channels in USD. This is a budget calculator, not a connected billing dashboard.

1. Usage

Usage period

Daily usage is converted using a 30-day month.

Requests / day

Avg input tokens

Avg output tokens

Cache hit rate0%

Channels without a published cache price use the regular input price.

Batch request share0%

Assumes the common 50% Batch discount; confirm channel eligibility before use.

30K

requests/mo

30M

input/mo

15M

output/mo

2. Models and region

Ternary Bonsai 2 9B1/4

Monthly cost comparison

Paid channels are sorted by USD-normalised monthly cost.

Model	Channel	Input price	Output price	Cache	Est. monthly
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B	OpenRouterGlobal	$0.08/1M	$0.13/1M	$0.04	$4.35Lowest paidUSD normalised