CostPerPrompt
Live AI API pricing and real-workload cost calculators
Details
- External ID
- 49140340
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- CostPerPrompt
- Website domain
- costperprompt.com
- Launched
- Aug. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 20
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7452956989247311
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- revenue optimization and billing analytics
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai api pricing and cost calculator
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 1311 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #296 of 1312 (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 0.58
- Orthogonal - Agentic Payments for APIs · yc · 2026-01-29 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- TaskFuel · hn · 2026-08-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Rentahuman: the marketplace where AI agents coordinate and pay people to do real world work. · yc · 2026-05-27 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Codag: Compression and control for agent tools · yc · 2026-08-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Archal: API sandboxes, built for AI agents · yc · 2026-08-22 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.55
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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