Show HN: CostPerPrompt – Live AI API pricing and real-workload cost calculators

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The article discusses the cost of AI models and provides a platform called CostPerPrompt that offers live pricing for over 232 models. The platform also includes calculators that help estimate the cost of chatbots, agents, and APIs. The cost of AI models can vary greatly depending on the provider, model, and usage, with discounts available for prompt caching and batch processing.

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▪The CostPerPrompt platform provides live pricing for over 232 AI models, including GPU rental prices and costs for chatbots and agents.
▪The cost of AI models is typically billed per token, with separate rates for input and output, and output is usually 3-5 times more expensive than input.
▪Discounts such as prompt caching and batch processing can significantly reduce the cost of AI models, with prompt caching cutting repeated input costs by up to 90% and batch processing taking around 50% off.

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What will AI actually cost you? Live pricing for 232+ models, refreshed automatically — plus calculators that turn token prices into real answers: what your chatbot, agent, or API workload will cost per month. API cost calculator Chatbot cost calculator All 232 model prices GPU rental prices Every cost question, answered $_ API Cost Calculator Any workload, compared across all 232 models — with caching & batch discounts. 💬 Chatbot Cost Simulates real conversations — growing history, resent context, cache hits. 🤖 Agent Cost Multi-step loops, tool schemas, retries — see why agents cost 10–30× more than you think. 📚 RAG Cost Indexing, retrieval and generation priced separately — spoiler: embeddings are pennies.

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