Batch API Cost Calculator
Trade 24h turnaround for 50% cost reduction. Estimate savings on non-urgent workloads.
Real-time Pricing
$3 / $15 per 1M
Batch Pricing
$1.5 / $7.5 per 1M
Scenario Presets
Job Configuration
10,000
Total API calls in your batch job
11M
500
Average prompt size per request
110,000
100
Average response size per request
14,000
Volume Summary
- Total Input
- 5.0M tokens
- Total Output
- 1.0M tokens
- Cost / Record (Real-time)
- $0.003
- Cost / Record (Batch)
- $0.0015
Total Savings
$15.00
50% cheaper with Batch API
Batch Discount 50% off
Time vs Money
Real-time API
Instant response
$30.00
Batch API
~24 hour turnaround
$15.00
Cost Comparison
Real-time $30.00
Batch $15.00
When Does Batch API Make Sense?
Good fit
- ✓ Overnight data pipelines
- ✓ Bulk document classification
- ✓ Embedding generation jobs
- ✓ Weekly report generation
- ✓ Fine-tuning data prep
Poor fit
- ✗ Real-time user chatbots
- ✗ Latency-sensitive APIs
- ✗ Interactive tools (<1s SLA)
- ✗ Streaming output required
Rule of thumb
Batch pays off when:
- → >10,000 records/job
- → 24h latency acceptable
- → Savings > $10/run
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