AI Calculators
Every AI cost calculator on RevenueLab, organized by what you're actually trying to decide. Forecast token bills, compare GPU clouds, model RAG pipelines, price generative media, and prove agent unit economics — without spreadsheets.
Models, Tokens & API Pricing
Forecast monthly API bills before you ship. Compare GPT, Claude, Gemini, and open-source models on input/output token mix, context length, and cache hit rate.
LLM Inference Cost Calculator
Estimate OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and open-source LLM monthly bills from tokens, requests, and per-million pricing.
Token Usage Calculator
Convert words and characters to LLM tokens and estimate API cost across input/output for any model.
Context Window Cost Calculator
What long context really costs per turn — full history vs summarization, modelled turn by turn.
Prompt Caching Savings Calculator
Hit rate, cache write premium, and TTL expiry — your real net saving from prompt caching.
Prompt Engineering ROI Calculator
Quantify ROI of prompt trimming, caching, and model routing — payback days, year-1 savings, quality impact.
Infrastructure & Self-Hosting
When self-hosting beats API calls. GPU cloud comparisons, RAG pipeline economics, and the full picture of running production inference on your own stack.
AI / GPU Cloud Cost Calculator
Monthly H100/A100/L40S spend on AWS, GCP, CoreWeave, Lambda, RunPod, and Modal — with reserved discounts and egress.
RAG Pipeline Cost Calculator
Embeddings + vector DB + retrieval + completion — full monthly RAG spend with Pinecone, Qdrant, pgvector compared.
Vector Database Cost Calculator
Storage, replicas, queries, and the one-off embedding bill — Pinecone, Qdrant, pgvector compared.
Self-Host vs API LLM Calculator
GPU hours vs per-token pricing, with utilisation, capacity check, and engineering time included.
Fine-Tuning Cost Calculator
Training tokens × epochs × runs, hosted inference premium, and the break-even point vs prompting.
Generative Media
Image and video generation has its own cost curve — credits, regenerations, and human review time dominate. Model spend per kept asset, not per attempt.
AI Image Generation Cost Calculator
Monthly spend for Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Ideogram, and Sora — with regen rate and human review baked in.
AI Video Generation Cost Calculator
Monthly cost for Sora 2, Veo 3, Runway Gen-4, Luma Ray, Kling — clip length, reject rate, post-prod time.
AI Voice & TTS Cost Calculator
Per-character TTS pricing, regeneration waste, cloning fees, and cost per finished minute of audio.
AI Transcription Cost Calculator
Speech-to-text per minute, summarization pass, and human review — true cost per finished transcript.
AI Product Economics & ROI
Turn token bills into gross margin. Agent unit economics, automation payback, and the math that decides whether your AI feature can survive the 99th-percentile user.
AI Agent Unit Economics Calculator
Cost per task, gross margin, and break-even price for AI agents including retries, tools, and human review.
AI Chatbot Cost Calculator
Cost per conversation and monthly spend for an AI chatbot — system prompt resend, history compounding, and caching savings.
Robot vs Human Cost Calculator
Automation payback and 3-year TCO vs fully-loaded labor — cobots, AMRs, RPA, AI agents.
AI Pricing & Packaging
Price the feature, not the tokens. Gross margin with a heavy-user tail, credit packs that survive full redemption, and whether seats, usage, or hybrid makes you more money.
AI Feature Pricing Calculator
Price an AI feature without wrecking gross margin — token COGS, the heavy-user tail, support load, and the break-even price.
AI Credits Pricing Calculator
Design a credit pack: price per credit, markup, breakage, and whether you'd still profit at 100% redemption.
Seat vs Usage Pricing Calculator
Compare per-seat, pure usage, and hybrid seat-plus-overage pricing for an AI product on revenue and margin.
AI ROI, Payback & Headcount
The honest version of the vendor's ROI deck. Adoption, rework and realisation applied to hours saved — plus automation payback, hiring comparisons, and what to charge when AI makes you faster.
AI Tool ROI Calculator
Is that AI subscription worth it? Adoption, rework, ramp, and realisation applied to the vendor's hours-saved claim.
AI Automation Payback Calculator
Build cost vs hours saved for automating a workflow with AI — including review time, errors, and maintenance.
AI vs Headcount Cost Calculator
Fully-loaded cost of another hire versus building an AI system for the same workload, residual headcount included.
AI-Assisted Freelance Rate Calculator
You deliver 3x faster with AI — what do you charge? Hourly vs fixed vs value pricing on the same project.
Creator & Content AI Economics
The creator side of the AI cost curve. Faceless channel economics, AI ad creative versus human UGC, newsletter cost per issue, and the blended cost of a finished content asset.
AI YouTube Channel Cost Calculator
What a faceless AI YouTube channel costs per month — scripts, voice, visuals, editing, tools — against AdSense at your RPM.
AI UGC Video ROI Calculator
AI ad creative vs human UGC creators: true cost per variant after regeneration and cleanup, plus the CPA lift from more testing.
AI Newsletter Production Cost Calculator
Cost per issue and per subscriber for an AI-assisted newsletter, against sponsorship and paid subscription revenue.
AI Content Cost Per Asset Calculator
Blended cost per finished content asset — model spend, drafts, scrap rate, editing and fact-checking versus all-human cost.
More AI tools
AI Support Ticket Cost Calculator
Work out what it costs to run AI on your support queue — per ticket, per month, and per year — including the platform fee most vendors quote separately.
AI Chatbot Deflection ROI Calculator
See how much a support chatbot actually saves once you net off the licence — deflection rate, cost per contact, and effective cost per ticket after automation.
AI Guardrail Cost Calculator
Price the safety layer on an AI feature — moderation, PII scrubbing, and policy checks run on every request — per call, per month, and at scale.
AI Voice Agent Cost Calculator
Cost an AI voice agent per minute and per month — speech-to-text, model, text-to-speech and telephony — and compare it against a human call centre minute.
AI Invoice Processing ROI Calculator
Calculate the payback on automated invoice capture — hours recovered in AP, licence cost, implementation cost, and the adoption rate that decides whether it lands.
LLM Model Routing Savings Calculator
See what you save by routing easy prompts to a cheap model and only escalating hard ones — deflection rate, per-call cost, and router overhead included.
AI Code Review Cost Calculator
Price AI code review per pull request and per month — model spend, seat fee, and how it scales with your merge volume.
AI Agent Run Cost Calculator
Cost a multi-step AI agent per run — model calls, tool calls, and retries — then see the monthly bill at your expected run volume.
LLM Fine-Tuning Cost Calculator
Budget a fine-tuning project — training tokens, epochs, and the serving premium — against the inference savings a smaller tuned model buys you.
AI Embedding Cost Calculator
Cost embedding a corpus and keeping it fresh — initial indexing, monthly re-embedding, and the storage fee that follows.
GPU Inference Cost Calculator
Size self-hosted inference — how many GPUs your request volume needs, what they cost per month, and how much headroom your buffer buys.
AI Content Moderation Cost Calculator
Cost automated moderation against a human review queue — what share AI can clear, the cost per human review, and the net after tooling.
AI Translation Cost Calculator
Price machine translation plus human post-editing per word, per language, and per month, against a pure human translation baseline.
AI Data Labeling Cost Calculator
Budget a labelling project — pre-labelling with a model, human review on the remainder, and what the mix costs per item.
AI Search Cost Per Query Calculator
Work out the all-in cost of an AI search or answer feature per query — retrieval, generation, and hosting — at your monthly query volume.
AI Email Triage ROI Calculator
Model AI triage on a shared inbox — how much of the volume gets routed or answered automatically, and what that is worth after tooling.
AI Governance Review Cost Calculator
Budget the review overhead on AI features — legal, security, and model-risk hours per launch, and what that costs per release.
LLM Context Window Cost Calculator
See what long contexts really cost — how much of your bill is prompt tokens you resend on every call, and what trimming them saves.
AI Batch Inference Savings Calculator
Compare real-time inference against batch pricing — how much of your workload can wait, and what the discount is worth per month.
How to choose the right AI calculator
Pricing a new feature?
Start with the LLM Inference Cost Calculator to size the API bill, then run AI Agent Unit Economics to back out the price you need to charge.
Deciding API vs self-host?
Compare the API total against GPU Cloud + utilization. Self-hosting only wins above ~60% sustained utilization on a discounted reservation.
Building with retrieval?
The RAG Pipeline calculator separates embedding, vector DB, and completion costs so you can spot the lever that actually moves $/query.
2026 model tier reference
| Tier | Input / M tokens | Output / M tokens | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Premium reasoning | $3–15 | $15–60 | Final generation, complex reasoning |
| Balanced standard | $0.50–3 | $2.50–12 | Most production traffic |
| Fast / cheap | $0.05–0.40 | $0.20–2.00 | Classification, routing, summarization |
Ratios between tiers are more durable than absolute prices — every major model has dropped 60–95% over the last 18 months. Re-pull provider pricing quarterly.
FAQ
What's the difference between this hub and /ai-cost-calculators?
Both surface the AI calculators. This page groups them by job-to-be-done (pricing, infra, media, economics) with deeper guidance. The /ai-cost-calculators page is the lighter category index.
Are these calculators free?
Yes. Every calculator on RevenueLab is free, no sign-up, and works in your browser.
How often is pricing updated?
Provider price lists are reviewed quarterly. You can always override the per-million-token rates inside each calculator to match the contract you actually signed.