Readit Newsalexellman commented on Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data pricepertoken.com/... · Posted by u/alexellman
The input is wrong tho
Your website reports 0.30$ for input and that wouldn't make any sense as it would be priced the same as the bigger Flash model.
ok yeah fixed that one, sorry...
alexellman commented on Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data pricepertoken.com/... · Posted by u/alexellman
This is cool! Two requests:
- Filter by model "power" or price class. I want compare the mini models, the medium models, etc.
- I'd like to see a "blended" cost which does 80% input + 20% output, so I can quickly compare the overall cost.
Great work on this!
thanks for the feedback!
alexellman commented on Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data pricepertoken.com/... · Posted by u/alexellman
I am missing Grok
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alexellman commented on Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data pricepertoken.com/... · Posted by u/alexellman
They should add grok. I use grok.
I just added grok
alexellman commented on Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data pricepertoken.com/... · Posted by u/alexellman
But the data is... wrong? Google Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs $0.10/mtok input [1] but is shown here as $0.40/mtok?
[1] https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing#gemini-2.5-fla...
the data is not wrong you are reading my table wrong
edit: my bad I was wrong shouldnt have responded like this
alexellman commented on Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data pricepertoken.com/... · Posted by u/alexellman
As user murshudoff mentioned elsewhere in the discussion, openrouter has an endpoint to get the prices. Takes 1 minutes to get them.
then use OpenRouter, totally fine by me. Thought a dedicated website just for this would be useful.
alexellman commented on Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data pricepertoken.com/... · Posted by u/alexellman
This is great, but as others have mentioned the UX problem is more complicated than this:
- for other models there are providers that serve the same model with different prices
- each provider optimizes for different parameters: speed, cost, etc.
- the same model can still be different quantizations
- some providers offer batch pricing (e.g., Grok API does not)
And there are plenty of other parameters to filter over- thinking vs. non-thinking, multi-modal or not, etc. not to even mention benchmarks ranking.
https://artificialanalysis.ai gives a blended cost number which helps with sorting a bit, but a blended cost model for input/output costs are going to change depending on what you're doing.
I'm still holding my breath for a site that has a really nice comparison UI.
Someone please build it!
would a column for "provider" meaning the place you are actually making the call to solve this
alexellman commented on Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data pricepertoken.com/... · Posted by u/alexellman
Main issue is that token are not equivalent across provider / models. With huge disparity inside provider beyond the tokenizer model:
- An image will take 10x token on gpt-4o-mini vs gpt-4.
- On gemini 2.5 pro output token are token except if you are using structure output, then all character are count as a token each for billing.
- ...
Having the price per token is nice, but what is really needed is to know how much a given query / answer will cost you, as not all token are equals.
yeah I am going to add an experiment that runs everyday and the cost of that will be a column on the table. It will be something like summarize this article in 200 words and every model gets the same prompt + article
It works in your command line and updates a live dashboard on my website (optional). I also aggregate everyone's token usage together and breakdown the models people are using.
The repo is here https://github.com/ellmanalex/pricepertoken-ai-coding-tracke...