Caching vs a bigger model: which saves more?
Deciding whether to decide between adding caching and upgrading the model is a build-vs-buy and ROI question. Built for teams optimizing cost and quality, this page compares the AI approach to the alternative and shows when (or whether) it pays for itself.
Start here: Prompt Caching Savings Calculator
Results update automatically as you type.
Result
72.0% cheaper input
Save ~$1,620.00/month on input tokens
- Input cost without cache
- $0.0150
- First request (writes cache)(one-time cache-write premium)
- $0.0180
- Cache-write premium (first hit)
- $0.0138
- Cached request (cache hit)
- $0.00420
- Savings per cached request
- $0.0108
- Savings per month
- $1,620.00
Then: LLM Model Cost Comparison
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Result
Cheapest: Gemma 3 4B IT at $8.00/month
Workload: 1,000 in / 500 out × 100,000 requests/month
| Gemma 3 4B IT | AWS Bedrock | $0.0000800 | $8.00 | $96.00 | 128,000 |
| Google Gemma 3 12B | AWS Bedrock | $0.000100 | $10.00 | $120.00 | 131,072 |
| Amazon Nova Micro | AWS Bedrock | $0.000105 | $10.50 | $126.00 | 128,000 |
| Command R7B | Cohere | $0.000112 | $11.25 | $135.00 | 128,000 |
| Phi 4 | Microsoft | $0.000140 | $14.00 | $168.00 | 16,384 |
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Nvidia | $0.000150 | $15.00 | $180.00 | 262,144 |
| Ministral 3 3B | AWS Bedrock | $0.000150 | $15.00 | $180.00 | 256,000 |
| Qwen Turbo | Alibaba | $0.000150 | $15.00 | $180.00 | 1,000,000 |
| NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B v2 | AWS Bedrock | $0.000175 | $17.50 | $210.00 | 128,000 |
| Amazon Nova Lite | AWS Bedrock | $0.000180 | $18.00 | $216.00 | 300,000 |
| NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 3 30B | AWS Bedrock | $0.000180 | $18.00 | $216.00 | 128,000 |
| Qwen-Omni Turbo | Alibaba | $0.000205 | $20.50 | $246.00 | 32,768 |
| gpt-oss-20b | AWS Bedrock | $0.000220 | $22.00 | $264.00 | 128,000 |
| Google Gemma 3 27B Instruct | AWS Bedrock | $0.000220 | $22.00 | $264.00 | 202,752 |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | $0.000225 | $22.50 | $270.00 | 1,048,576 | |
| Ministral 3 8B | AWS Bedrock | $0.000225 | $22.50 | $270.00 | 128,000 |
| Mistral Nemo | Mistral AI | $0.000225 | $22.50 | $270.00 | 128,000 |
| Open Mistral Nemo | Mistral AI | $0.000225 | $22.50 | $270.00 | 128,000 |
| Pixtral 12B | Mistral AI | $0.000225 | $22.50 | $270.00 | 128,000 |
| GPT-5 Nano | OpenAI | $0.000250 | $25.00 | $300.00 | 400,000 |
| Qwen Flash | Alibaba | $0.000250 | $25.00 | $300.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Step 3.5 Flash | StepFun | $0.000250 | $25.00 | $300.00 | 256,000 |
| GLM-4.7-Flash | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.000260 | $26.00 | $312.00 | 200,000 |
| GLM-4.7-FlashX | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.000270 | $27.00 | $324.00 | 200,000 |
| GLM-4.7-Flash | AWS Bedrock | $0.000270 | $27.00 | $324.00 | 200,000 |
| Llama 4 Scout | Meta | $0.000280 | $28.00 | $336.00 | 10,000,000 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | DeepSeek | $0.000280 | $28.00 | $336.00 | 1,000,000 |
| MiMo-V2.5 | Xiaomi | $0.000280 | $28.00 | $336.00 | 1,048,576 |
| DeepSeek Chat | DeepSeek | $0.000280 | $28.00 | $336.00 | 1,000,000 |
| DeepSeek Reasoner | DeepSeek | $0.000280 | $28.00 | $336.00 | 1,000,000 |
| MiMo-V2-Flash | Xiaomi | $0.000280 | $28.00 | $336.00 | 262,144 |
| MiMo-V2-Omni | Xiaomi | $0.000280 | $28.00 | $336.00 | 262,144 |
| GPT-4.1 Nano | OpenAI | $0.000300 | $30.00 | $360.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $0.000300 | $30.00 | $360.00 | 1,000,000 | |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash | $0.000300 | $30.00 | $360.00 | 1,048,576 | |
| Ministral 14B 3.0 | AWS Bedrock | $0.000300 | $30.00 | $360.00 | 128,000 |
| Qwen2.5-Omni 7B | Alibaba | $0.000300 | $30.00 | $360.00 | 32,768 |
| Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Meta | $0.000330 | $33.00 | $396.00 | 128,000 |
| Mistral 7B | Mistral AI | $0.000375 | $37.50 | $450.00 | 8,000 |
| Qwen-MT Turbo | Alibaba | $0.000405 | $40.50 | $486.00 | 16,384 |
| Hunyuan A13B Instruct | Tencent | $0.000425 | $42.50 | $510.00 | 131,072 |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B | Nvidia | $0.000438 | $43.75 | $525.00 | 262,144 |
| GPT-4o mini | OpenAI | $0.000450 | $45.00 | $540.00 | 128,000 |
| Mistral Small 4 | Mistral AI | $0.000450 | $45.00 | $540.00 | 131,000 |
| Command R | Cohere | $0.000450 | $45.00 | $540.00 | 128,000 |
| gpt-oss-120b | AWS Bedrock | $0.000450 | $45.00 | $540.00 | 128,000 |
| NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B | AWS Bedrock | $0.000475 | $47.50 | $570.00 | 262,144 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | DeepSeek | $0.000490 | $49.00 | $588.00 | 164,000 |
| NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL BF16 | AWS Bedrock | $0.000500 | $50.00 | $600.00 | 128,000 |
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.000525 | $52.50 | $630.00 | 131,072 |
| Qwen-VL Plus | Alibaba | $0.000525 | $52.50 | $630.00 | 131,072 |
| Qwen3 8B | Alibaba | $0.000530 | $53.00 | $636.00 | 131,072 |
| Hunyuan Hy3 | Tencent | $0.000600 | $60.00 | $720.00 | 262,144 |
| Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 | Meta | $0.000600 | $60.00 | $720.00 | 128,000 |
| Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B | Alibaba | $0.000600 | $60.00 | $720.00 | 131,072 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Meta | $0.000645 | $64.50 | $774.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Step 3.7 Flash | StepFun | $0.000740 | $74.00 | $888.00 | 256,000 |
| Qwen3.6 Flash | Alibaba | $0.000750 | $75.00 | $900.00 | 1,000,000 |
| GLM-4.5-Air | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.000750 | $75.00 | $900.00 | 131,072 |
| GLM-4.6V | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.000750 | $75.00 | $900.00 | 128,000 |
| GPT-5.4 nano | OpenAI | $0.000825 | $82.50 | $990.00 | 400,000 |
| Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct | AWS Bedrock | $0.000840 | $84.00 | $1,008.00 | 262,000 |
| Devstral 2 | Mistral AI | $0.000850 | $85.00 | $1,020.00 | 262,000 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | DeepSeek | $0.000870 | $87.00 | $1,044.00 | 1,000,000 |
| MiMo-V2.5-Pro | Xiaomi | $0.000870 | $87.00 | $1,044.00 | 1,048,576 |
| MiMo-V2-Pro | Xiaomi | $0.000870 | $87.00 | $1,044.00 | 1,048,576 |
| Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.000875 | $87.50 | $1,050.00 | 131,072 |
| Llama 3.3 70B | Meta | $0.000900 | $90.00 | $1,080.00 | 128,000 |
| MiniMax-M3 | MiniMax | $0.000900 | $90.00 | $1,080.00 | 1,000,000 |
| MiniMax-M2.7 | MiniMax | $0.000900 | $90.00 | $1,080.00 | 204,800 |
| MiniMax-M2 | MiniMax | $0.000900 | $90.00 | $1,080.00 | 196,608 |
| MiniMax-M2.1 | MiniMax | $0.000900 | $90.00 | $1,080.00 | 204,800 |
| MiniMax-M2.5 | MiniMax | $0.000900 | $90.00 | $1,080.00 | 204,800 |
| MiniMax M2 | AWS Bedrock | $0.000900 | $90.00 | $1,080.00 | 204,608 |
| MiniMax M2.1 | AWS Bedrock | $0.000900 | $90.00 | $1,080.00 | 204,800 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | AWS Bedrock | $0.000900 | $90.00 | $1,080.00 | 196,608 |
| Qwen3.6 35B-A3B | Alibaba | $0.000991 | $99.05 | $1,188.60 | 262,144 |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | $0.00100 | $100.00 | $1,200.00 | 1,048,576 | |
| Qwen Plus | Alibaba | $0.00100 | $100.00 | $1,200.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Qwen3-VL Plus | Alibaba | $0.00100 | $100.00 | $1,200.00 | 262,144 |
| Mixtral 8x7B | Mistral AI | $0.00105 | $105.00 | $1,260.00 | 32,000 |
| Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct | AWS Bedrock | $0.00105 | $105.00 | $1,260.00 | 262,000 |
| Qwen2.5 14B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.00105 | $105.00 | $1,260.00 | 131,072 |
| Qwen3 14B | Alibaba | $0.00105 | $105.00 | $1,260.00 | 131,072 |
| Qwen3 Coder Flash | Alibaba | $0.00105 | $105.00 | $1,260.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | AWS Bedrock | $0.00112 | $112.00 | $1,344.00 | 131,072 |
| GPT-4.1 Mini | OpenAI | $0.00120 | $120.00 | $1,440.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) | Alibaba | $0.00120 | $120.00 | $1,440.00 | 8,192 |
| GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI | $0.00125 | $125.00 | $1,500.00 | 128,000 |
| Mistral Large 3 | Mistral AI | $0.00125 | $125.00 | $1,500.00 | 262,000 |
| GPT-3.5-turbo | OpenAI | $0.00125 | $125.00 | $1,500.00 | 16,385 |
| GPT-5.1 Codex mini | OpenAI | $0.00125 | $125.00 | $1,500.00 | 400,000 |
| Magistral Small | Mistral AI | $0.00125 | $125.00 | $1,500.00 | 128,000 |
| Mistral Large 3 | AWS Bedrock | $0.00125 | $125.00 | $1,500.00 | 256,000 |
| Qwen3.5 35B-A3B | Alibaba | $0.00125 | $125.00 | $1,500.00 | 262,144 |
| Qwen3-Omni Flash | Alibaba | $0.00126 | $126.00 | $1,512.00 | 65,536 |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mistral AI | $0.00140 | $140.00 | $1,680.00 | 131,000 |
| Devstral 2 123B | AWS Bedrock | $0.00140 | $140.00 | $1,680.00 | 256,000 |
| Qwen3.5 27B | Alibaba | $0.00150 | $150.00 | $1,800.00 | 262,144 |
| Sonar | Perplexity | $0.00150 | $150.00 | $1,800.00 | 128,000 |
| GLM-4.5V | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.00150 | $150.00 | $1,800.00 | 64,000 |
| Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.00150 | $150.00 | $1,800.00 | 131,072 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.00155 | $155.00 | $1,860.00 | 1,000,000 | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | $0.00155 | $155.00 | $1,860.00 | 1,048,576 | |
| Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.00158 | $157.50 | $1,890.00 | 262,144 |
| Qwen3.5 Plus | Alibaba | $0.00160 | $160.00 | $1,920.00 | 1,000,000 |
| GLM-4.5 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.00170 | $170.00 | $2,040.00 | 131,072 |
| GLM-4.6 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.00170 | $170.00 | $2,040.00 | 204,800 |
| GLM-4.7 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.00170 | $170.00 | $2,040.00 | 204,800 |
| GLM-4.7 | AWS Bedrock | $0.00170 | $170.00 | $2,040.00 | 204,800 |
| MiniMax-M2.5-highspeed | MiniMax | $0.00180 | $180.00 | $2,160.00 | 204,800 |
| MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed | MiniMax | $0.00180 | $180.00 | $2,160.00 | 204,800 |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | Moonshot AI | $0.00185 | $185.00 | $2,220.00 | 262,144 |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | AWS Bedrock | $0.00185 | $185.00 | $2,220.00 | 262,143 |
| Qwen3.6 Plus | Alibaba | $0.00200 | $200.00 | $2,400.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Qwen3.5 122B-A10B | Alibaba | $0.00200 | $200.00 | $2,400.00 | 262,144 |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | Alibaba | $0.00200 | $200.00 | $2,400.00 | 1,000,000 |
| QwQ Plus | Alibaba | $0.00200 | $200.00 | $2,400.00 | 131,072 |
| Kimi K2.5 | Moonshot AI | $0.00210 | $210.00 | $2,520.00 | 262,144 |
| Kimi K2.5 | AWS Bedrock | $0.00210 | $210.00 | $2,520.00 | 262,143 |
| Qwen2.5 32B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.00210 | $210.00 | $2,520.00 | 131,072 |
| Qwen3 235B-A22B | Alibaba | $0.00210 | $210.00 | $2,520.00 | 131,072 |
| Qwen3 32B | Alibaba | $0.00210 | $210.00 | $2,520.00 | 131,072 |
| Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B | Alibaba | $0.00210 | $210.00 | $2,520.00 | 131,072 |
| Amazon Nova Pro | AWS Bedrock | $0.00240 | $240.00 | $2,880.00 | 300,000 |
| Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B | Nvidia | $0.00240 | $240.00 | $2,880.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Qwen-VL Max | Alibaba | $0.00240 | $240.00 | $2,880.00 | 131,072 |
| Qwen3.5 397B-A17B | Alibaba | $0.00240 | $240.00 | $2,880.00 | 262,144 |
| Qwen3.6 27B | Alibaba | $0.00240 | $240.00 | $2,880.00 | 262,144 |
| Grok 4.3 | xAI | $0.00250 | $250.00 | $3,000.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Grok 4.3 | AWS Bedrock | $0.00250 | $250.00 | $3,000.00 | 1,000,000 |
| GLM-5 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.00260 | $260.00 | $3,120.00 | 204,800 |
| GLM-5 | AWS Bedrock | $0.00260 | $260.00 | $3,120.00 | 202,752 |
| MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed | Xiaomi | $0.00261 | $261.00 | $3,132.00 | 1,048,576 |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | Moonshot AI | $0.00295 | $295.00 | $3,540.00 | 262,144 |
| Kimi K2.6 | Moonshot AI | $0.00295 | $295.00 | $3,540.00 | 262,144 |
| MAI-Code-1-Flash | Microsoft | $0.00300 | $300.00 | $3,600.00 | 256,000 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | OpenAI | $0.00300 | $300.00 | $3,600.00 | 400,000 |
| GLM-5-Turbo | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.00320 | $320.00 | $3,840.00 | 200,000 |
| GLM-5V-Turbo | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.00320 | $320.00 | $3,840.00 | 200,000 |
| o4-mini | OpenAI | $0.00330 | $330.00 | $3,960.00 | 200,000 |
| o3-mini | OpenAI | $0.00330 | $330.00 | $3,960.00 | 200,000 |
| Muse Spark 1.1 | Meta | $0.00338 | $337.50 | $4,050.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | $0.00350 | $350.00 | $4,200.00 | 200,000 |
| Qwen3 Coder Plus | Alibaba | $0.00350 | $350.00 | $4,200.00 | 1,048,576 |
| Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking) | Alibaba | $0.00350 | $350.00 | $4,200.00 | 131,072 |
| GLM-5.2 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.00360 | $360.00 | $4,320.00 | 1,000,000 |
| GLM-5.1 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.00360 | $360.00 | $4,320.00 | 200,000 |
| QVQ Max | Alibaba | $0.00360 | $360.00 | $4,320.00 | 131,072 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | $0.00400 | $400.00 | $4,800.00 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | AWS Bedrock | $0.00400 | $400.00 | $4,800.00 | 272,000 |
| Qwen3 Max | Alibaba | $0.00420 | $420.00 | $5,040.00 | 262,144 |
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.00420 | $420.00 | $5,040.00 | 131,072 |
| Qwen Max | Alibaba | $0.00480 | $480.00 | $5,760.00 | 32,768 |
| Grok 4.5 | xAI | $0.00500 | $500.00 | $6,000.00 | 500,000 |
| Mixtral 8x22B | Mistral AI | $0.00500 | $500.00 | $6,000.00 | 64,000 |
| Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Moonshot AI | $0.00515 | $515.00 | $6,180.00 | 262,144 |
| Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.00525 | $525.00 | $6,300.00 | 262,144 |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | $0.00525 | $525.00 | $6,300.00 | 1,048,576 | |
| Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed | Moonshot AI | $0.00590 | $590.00 | $7,080.00 | 262,144 |
| GPT-4.1 | OpenAI | $0.00600 | $600.00 | $7,200.00 | 1,000,000 |
| o3 | OpenAI | $0.00600 | $600.00 | $7,200.00 | 200,000 |
| Sonar Reasoning Pro | Perplexity | $0.00600 | $600.00 | $7,200.00 | 128,000 |
| Sonar Deep Research | Perplexity | $0.00600 | $600.00 | $7,200.00 | 128,000 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $0.00600 | $600.00 | $7,200.00 | 1,048,576 | |
| o4-mini-deep-research | OpenAI | $0.00600 | $600.00 | $7,200.00 | 200,000 |
| Qwen-MT Plus | Alibaba | $0.00615 | $614.50 | $7,374.00 | 16,384 |
| GPT-5 | OpenAI | $0.00625 | $625.00 | $7,500.00 | 128,000 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $0.00625 | $625.00 | $7,500.00 | 1,048,576 | |
| GPT-5.1 | OpenAI | $0.00625 | $625.00 | $7,500.00 | 400,000 |
| GPT-5.1 Codex | OpenAI | $0.00625 | $625.00 | $7,500.00 | 400,000 |
| GPT-5.1 Codex Max | OpenAI | $0.00625 | $625.00 | $7,500.00 | 400,000 |
| GPT-5-Codex | OpenAI | $0.00625 | $625.00 | $7,500.00 | 400,000 |
| Qwen3.7 Max | Alibaba | $0.00625 | $625.00 | $7,500.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Step 1 (32K) | StepFun | $0.00684 | $684.50 | $8,214.00 | 32,768 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | $0.00700 | $700.00 | $8,400.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 (Global) | AWS Bedrock | $0.00700 | $700.00 | $8,400.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.00700 | $700.00 | $8,400.00 | 131,072 |
| GPT-4o | OpenAI | $0.00750 | $750.00 | $9,000.00 | 128,000 |
| Command A | Cohere | $0.00750 | $750.00 | $9,000.00 | 256,000 |
| Command R+ | Cohere | $0.00750 | $750.00 | $9,000.00 | 128,000 |
| Amazon Nova Premier | AWS Bedrock | $0.00875 | $875.00 | $10,500.00 | 1,000,000 |
| GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | $0.00875 | $875.00 | $10,500.00 | 400,000 |
| GPT-5.2 Codex | OpenAI | $0.00875 | $875.00 | $10,500.00 | 400,000 |
| GPT-5.3 Codex | OpenAI | $0.00875 | $875.00 | $10,500.00 | 400,000 |
| GPT-5.3 Codex Spark | OpenAI | $0.00875 | $875.00 | $10,500.00 | 128,000 |
| GPT-5.4 | OpenAI | $0.0100 | $1,000.00 | $12,000.00 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | $0.0100 | $1,000.00 | $12,000.00 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | AWS Bedrock | $0.0100 | $1,000.00 | $12,000.00 | 272,000 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | $0.0105 | $1,050.00 | $12,600.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Sonar Pro | Perplexity | $0.0105 | $1,050.00 | $12,600.00 | 200,000 |
| Kimi K3 | Moonshot AI | $0.0105 | $1,050.00 | $12,600.00 | 1,048,576 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 (latest) | Anthropic | $0.0105 | $1,050.00 | $12,600.00 | 1,000,000 |
| GPT-5.4 | AWS Bedrock | $0.0110 | $1,100.00 | $13,200.00 | 272,000 |
| AU Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 | AWS Bedrock | $0.0116 | $1,155.00 | $13,860.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Step 2 (16K) | StepFun | $0.0134 | $1,343.00 | $16,116.00 | 16,384 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | $0.0175 | $1,750.00 | $21,000.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Anthropic | $0.0175 | $1,750.00 | $21,000.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Claude Opus 4.6 (US) | AWS Bedrock | $0.0175 | $1,750.00 | $21,000.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 (US) | AWS Bedrock | $0.0175 | $1,750.00 | $21,000.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | AWS Bedrock | $0.0175 | $1,750.00 | $21,000.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Claude Opus 4.5 (latest) | Anthropic | $0.0175 | $1,750.00 | $21,000.00 | 200,000 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | $0.0175 | $1,750.00 | $21,000.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Claude Opus 5 (JP) | AWS Bedrock | $0.0175 | $1,750.00 | $21,000.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | $0.0175 | $1,750.00 | $21,000.00 | 1,000,000 |
| GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | $0.0200 | $2,000.00 | $24,000.00 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.6 | OpenAI | $0.0200 | $2,000.00 | $24,000.00 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | $0.0200 | $2,000.00 | $24,000.00 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | AWS Bedrock | $0.0200 | $2,000.00 | $24,000.00 | 272,000 |
| GPT-5.5 | AWS Bedrock | $0.0220 | $2,200.00 | $26,400.00 | 272,000 |
| GPT-4 Turbo | OpenAI | $0.0250 | $2,500.00 | $30,000.00 | 128,000 |
| o3-deep-research | OpenAI | $0.0300 | $3,000.00 | $36,000.00 | 200,000 |
| Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | $0.0350 | $3,500.00 | $42,000.00 | 1,000,000 |
| Claude Fable 5 | AWS Bedrock | $0.0350 | $3,500.00 | $42,000.00 | 1,000,000 |
| o1 | OpenAI | $0.0450 | $4,500.00 | $54,000.00 | 200,000 |
| Claude Opus 4.1 (latest) | Anthropic | $0.0525 | $5,250.00 | $63,000.00 | 200,000 |
| GPT-4 | OpenAI | $0.0600 | $6,000.00 | $72,000.00 | 8,192 |
| o3-pro | OpenAI | $0.0600 | $6,000.00 | $72,000.00 | 200,000 |
| GPT-5 Pro | OpenAI | $0.0750 | $7,500.00 | $90,000.00 | 400,000 |
| GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | $0.1050 | $10,500.00 | $126,000.00 | 400,000 |
| GPT-5.4 Pro | OpenAI | $0.1200 | $12,000.00 | $144,000.00 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.5 Pro | OpenAI | $0.1200 | $12,000.00 | $144,000.00 | 1,050,000 |
| o1-pro | OpenAI | $0.4500 | $45,000.00 | $540,000.00 | 200,000 |
Why this isn't trivial
The part people underestimate: caching cuts cost on repeated work while a bigger model raises cost but may cut retries, so they solve different problems. In practice the biggest savings come from caching for repetitive load, upgrading for quality-limited tasks, so it is worth modelling before you commit.
How it's calculated
We estimate this by comparing caching savings against the net cost and benefit of a model upgrade. Every figure uses the current provider prices baked into the site (reviewed daily), and you can override any input to match your own assumptions.
Frequently asked questions
Can I do both?+
Yes — cache repeated context and upgrade only the quality-critical path.
Which comes first?+
Usually caching, since it's pure savings; upgrade only if quality is the bottleneck.
Are these prices up to date?+
Yes. The model prices behind this calculator are refreshed and reviewed daily, so your estimate reflects current provider rates rather than a stale snapshot.
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Estimates for planning. Pricing data last reviewed 28 July 2026.