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CostPerPrompt

Live AI API pricing and real-workload cost calculators

Details

External ID
49140340
Source
HN
Company
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Product
CostPerPrompt
Website domain
costperprompt.com
Launched
Aug. 2, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
20
Upvotes percentile
0.7452956989247311
Tags
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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.

Other launches for this product

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