PDF Token & Cost Calculator
Estimate tokens and cost to process a PDF with an LLM.
Results update automatically as you type.
Result
$0.0238 to process this PDF
20 pages ≈ 15,000 tokens
- Estimated input tokens
- 15,000 tokens
- Input cost
- $0.0187
- Output cost
- $0.00500
- Total
- $0.0238
Estimate how many tokens a PDF becomes and what it costs to summarize or analyze it with an LLM. Enter page count and words per page to get input tokens and cost.
How this is calculated
This calculator uses the developer tools formulas described in our methodology. All figures are estimates for planning; verify current pricing with each provider before relying on them.
Worked example (defaults)
With the default inputs above, here is the result:
Result
$0.0238 to process this PDF
20 pages ≈ 15,000 tokens
- Estimated input tokens
- 15,000 tokens
- Input cost
- $0.0187
- Output cost
- $0.00500
- Total
- $0.0238
Frequently asked questions
How many tokens is a PDF page?+
A dense page of ~500 words is roughly 650-700 tokens of text. Scanned PDFs must be OCR'd first, which changes the estimate.