AI & Backend
AI Cost Calculator
Estimating AI usage costs before they surprise you
Project overview
A tool for estimating the cost of AI model usage from expected volume, prompt size and provider pricing inputs.
AI Cost Calculator helps teams compare expected AI usage costs across models and scenarios before committing to an integration.
The challenge
The product problem
Per-token pricing is easy to underestimate once retries, longer prompts and growing request volume are taken into account.
Engineering approach
How we think about the solution
- Turn usage assumptions into explicit, editable inputs.
- Show how each input affects the estimated total.
- Keep pricing data separate so it can be updated as providers change rates.
Focus areas
What matters in the experience
- Usage modelling
- Scenario comparison
- Clear cost breakdowns
- Maintainable pricing data
The result
What the product delivers.
Teams can model AI usage scenarios up front and make integration decisions with clearer cost expectations.
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