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 V4 Pro
Balanced model
GPT-5.4
Monthly active users
7,000
Optimization ideas
Practical ways to reduce cost or improve reliability for this workload.
- 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.
Estimated monthly spend
$43,282
GPT-5.4 · OpenAI
Cost per request
$0.034
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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