LLM cost by use case
The same model can cost $5 or $500/month depending on your workload shape. Pick a scenario to see monthly cost rankings across all major models.
- Chatbot
Customer-facing or internal chat assistants
💰 Cheapest: Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash at $0.760/mo💸 Priciest: OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro at $960.00/mo10,000 reqs/mo · 800/400 tokens - Coding Agent
Cursor/Claude Code style dev assistants with large contexts
💰 Cheapest: Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash at $2.50/mo💸 Priciest: OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro at $3000.00/mo5,000 reqs/mo · 8000/2000 tokens - RAG Pipeline
Retrieval-augmented generation over your documents
💰 Cheapest: Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash at $5.55/mo💸 Priciest: OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro at $6300.00/mo30,000 reqs/mo · 4000/500 tokens - Document Summarizer
Batch summarization of long documents
💰 Cheapest: Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash at $1.46/mo💸 Priciest: OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro at $1560.00/mo2,000 reqs/mo · 20000/1000 tokens - Bulk Translation
High-volume content translation
💰 Cheapest: Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash at $4.80/mo💸 Priciest: OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro at $6300.00/mo20,000 reqs/mo · 1500/1500 tokens - Customer Support Bot
High-volume ticket triage and first-line responses
💰 Cheapest: Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash at $4.08/mo💸 Priciest: OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro at $4950.00/mo50,000 reqs/mo · 1200/350 tokens - Data Extraction
Structured JSON extraction from unstructured text
💰 Cheapest: Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash at $1.71/mo💸 Priciest: OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro at $1935.00/mo15,000 reqs/mo · 2500/300 tokens - Code Review
Automated PR review comments and security checks
💰 Cheapest: Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash at $1.39/mo💸 Priciest: OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro at $1512.00/mo3,000 reqs/mo · 12000/800 tokens - Content Writer
Marketing copy, blog posts, and product descriptions
💰 Cheapest: Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash at $0.580/mo💸 Priciest: OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro at $780.00/mo2,000 reqs/mo · 1000/2000 tokens - Classification & Routing
Categorizing tickets, emails, or documents at scale
💰 Cheapest: Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash at $2.45/mo💸 Priciest: OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro at $2700.00/mo100,000 reqs/mo · 600/50 tokens