Budget calculator: what $N a month buys
Type your monthly budget and a typical request: how many requests a month (and a day) it buys on each model at its cheapest seller, with the model's reasoning class. How to use it
| Model | Reasoning class | Provider | One message | Requests a month | A day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | 🧠 A | openrouter | $0.000203 | 246 548 | 8218.3 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | 🧠 B | cometapi | $0.00036 | 138 888 | 4629.6 |
| GLM-5.3 | 🧠 A | edenai | $0.00072 | 69 444 | 2314.8 |
| Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | helicone | $0.000915 | 54 644 | 1821.5 | |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 🧠 A | kenari | $0.00148 | 33 785 | 1126.2 |
| Kimi K3 | 🧠 A | aihubmix | $0.001687 | 29 644 | 988.1 |
| Qwen3.8 Max | 🧠 A | edenai | $0.00455 | 10 989 | 366.3 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | 🧠 A | kilo | $0.005 | 10 000 | 333.3 |
| Grok 4.6 | 🧠 B | cometapi | $0.0056 | 8 928 | 297.6 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 🧠 S | cometapi | $0.0072 | 6 944 | 231.5 |
| GPT-5.5 | 🧠 A | xpersona | $0.009 | 5 555 | 185.2 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | 🧠 S | cometapi | $0.0144 | 3 472 | 115.7 |
| GPT-6 Astra | 🧠 A | cometapi | $0.036 | 1 388 | 46.3 |
Requests a month = budget / (input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price), at the cheapest real-time seller of each model; batch, flex and free variants are left out. Caching would make every row larger - see the cache and batch calculator.