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/mo

  10,000 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/mo

  5,000 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/mo

  30,000 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/mo

  2,000 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/mo

  20,000 reqs/mo · 1500/1500 tokens