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LLM inference cost calculator

Compare cloud API pricing against running locally (electricity cost), and find the breakeven price if you were to resell inference. Local cost assumes the machine runs 24/7 and serves your monthly token volume; all other time is counted at idle draw.

Cloud pricing ($/M tokens)
Monthly usage (M tokens)
Local hardware

Cloud (monthly)

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Local (monthly)

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At load

—input + output time, per month

Total energy

—per month

Input power

—kWh / M tokens

Output power

—kWh / M tokens

Breakeven price

—blended, per M tokens, to cover energy cost

Input

—/M tokens

Cache

—97% off input

Output

—/M tokens