CostPerPrompt
Live AI API pricing and real-workload cost calculators
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HN · launched Aug 2, 2026 · 20 upvotes (top 25%) · 0 views
Niche: ai token and inference cost trackers · 82 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes The product is a directory and comparison calculator displaying LLM API prices, easily built with a static site generator or Next.js app backed by a scheduled scraper or JSON dataset.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenRouter, DeepInfra, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini
Concerns raised: AI-generated content feels inauthentic and low-quality, Cache hit rates vary significantly by provider and session gaps, Difficult to factor in real-world cache behavior into pricing calculations, Token efficiency comparisons incomplete without reasoning efficiency data
Feature requests: Add adjustable 'average gap between messages' input to factor cache TTL into pricing, Include reasoning efficiency comparisons across providers for same tasks
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2890 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #682 of 2891 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 277 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Wage Against the Machine · hn · 2026-08-01 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Plek AI: The AI company brain for value creation · yc · 2026-11-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Orthogonal - Agentic Payments for APIs · yc · 2026-01-29 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- TaskFuel · hn · 2026-08-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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