Observed arrival · 2026-10-05
AI Cost Base: the bill beyond the token price
A set of free calculators estimates AI project costs across model inference, voice, retrieval, image generation, and operational overhead.
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- AI builders estimating production costs
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- Model prices are described as daily pulls from OpenRouter; embedding prices come from LiteLLM, while other rates are editable and dated.
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The homepage groups its estimates by project shape, including per-call and monthly voice-agent costs, per-lead SDR costs, and one-time versus per-query RAG costs. It says model prices come from OpenRouter’s public API, while embedding prices use a separate community list. Rates outside those lists are presented as editable inputs with their sources and dates; the actual calculator screens and formulas are not included in the extract.
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