Use Case

Coding agent cost calculator

Estimate output-heavy coding assistant usage where long generations can dominate cost.

Default workload

These presets are meant to shorten planning time, and you can edit every assumption in the calculator below.

Lowest-cost model

DeepSeek Reasoner

Balanced model

GPT-5.4

Default MAU

7,000

Optimization ideas

These notes are static guidance tied to the selected use case.

  • Reduce full-file context sends whenever smaller diffs will do
  • Split planning from implementation so expensive reasoning is used intentionally

Calculator

Start from the preset, then tune it to your own workload.

Workload preset
Model

Estimated monthly spend

$43,282

GPT-5.4 · OpenAI

Cost per request

$0.03

Cost per user / month

$6.18

Cost per day

$1,443

Annual run rate

$519,381

Requests / month: 1,260,000

Effective input price: $2.50 / 1M

Effective cached input price: $0.25 / 1M

Effective output price: $15.00 / 1M

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