What Can $10 Buy Across Different LLM APIs?

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LLM API pricing pages usually quote prices per million tokens. That is useful for billing, but it is not always the easiest way to think about cost when building an application. A question I find more intuitive is: If I have a $10 API budget, how many real requests can I make? The answer depends heavily on the ratio between input and output tokens. Let's use one simple workload and compare a few models.

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