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AI-Cost-CLI

PyPI License: MIT Python 3.9+ MCP Registry

A terminal-based calculator and recommendation engine for AI API costs. Supports multiple providers, local currency conversion, and automated pricing updates.

Preview: Direct vs. Aggregator Comparison

Compare the effective cost of using models directly vs. through gateways like OpenRouter, including platform fees.

                    Comparison: gpt-4o vs openrouter/gpt-4o                     
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Attribute        ┃             gpt-4o              ┃    openrouter/gpt-4o    ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Provider         │             OpenAI              │       OpenRouter        │
├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Source           │             Direct              │       Aggregator        │
├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Platform Fee     │              0.0%               │          5.5%           │
├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Type             │              text               │          text           │
├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Input Cost       │        111.4775 TRY (1M)        │    117.6088 TRY (1M)    │
├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Output/Unit Cost │        445.9100 TRY (1M)        │    470.4350 TRY (1M)    │
└──────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘

Related MCP server: CloudCost MCP Server

Supported Models

Text Models

Model

Provider

Input/1M

Output/1M

Tags

Claude Opus 4.7

Anthropic

$5.00

$25.00

reasoning, coding, vision, agentic

GPT-5.5

OpenAI

$5.00

$30.00

multimodal, coding, agentic

GPT-5.5 Pro

OpenAI

$30.00

$180.00

precision, enterprise, agentic

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic

$3.00

$15.00

coding, fast, general

GPT-4o

OpenAI

$2.50

$10.00

reasoning, coding, vision

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Google

$2.00

$12.00

long-context, multimodal

DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek

$0.55

$2.19

reasoning, coding, smart

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Google

$0.30

$2.50

fast, reasoning, legacy

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Google

$0.25

$1.50

fast, cheap, agentic

DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek

$0.14

$0.28

general, coding, cheap

Image, Video & Audio Models

Model

Provider

Price

Type

Imagen 4 Fast

Google

$0.02/image

Image

GPT-Image-1

OpenAI

$0.02/image

Image

DALL-E 3

OpenAI

$0.04/image

Image

Imagen 4 Ultra

Google

$0.06/image

Image

Veo 3 Lite

Google

$0.05/sec

Video

Veo 3

Google

$0.40/sec

Video

Lyria 3 Clip

Google

$0.04/clip

Music

Lyria 3 Pro

Google

$0.08/song

Music

Whisper

OpenAI

$0.006/min

Speech-to-Text

TTS Standard

OpenAI

$15/1M chars

Text-to-Speech

Full list available via aicost list --currency USD

Features

  • Infrastructure Comparison: Compare Direct providers vs. Aggregators (OpenRouter) and Gateways (Portkey, LiteLLM, Martian).

  • Transparent Commissions: Automatically calculates platform fees (e.g., OpenRouter's 5.5% credit fee).

  • Direct Cost Calculation: Full breakdown of base costs and platform middle-layer fees.

  • Currency Conversion: Real-time conversion to local currencies (TRY, EUR, etc.) with offline fallback.

  • Automated Pricing: Weekly automated updates from official provider documentation.

  • MCP Server: Native support for AI agents (Cursor, Claude Desktop).

Installation

pip install aicost-cli

With MCP server support:

pip install aicost-cli[mcp]

Or from source:

git clone https://github.com/ufhouck/aicost.git
cd aicost
pip install -e .

Usage

List All Models

aicost list --currency TRY

Calculate Cost

# Text model — token-based
aicost calc claude-opus-4.7 --input 1000000 --output 500000 --currency TRY

# With platform fee breakdown (aggregators)
aicost calc openrouter/gpt-4o --input 1000000 --output 500000 --currency TRY

Output Example:

╭───────── Cost Calculation ──────────╮
│ Model: openrouter/gpt-4o            │
│ Source: Aggregator                  │
│                                     │
│ Base Cost: 316.9976 TRY             │
│ Platform Fee (5.5%): 17.4349 TRY    │
│                                     │
│ Total Cost: 334.4325 TRY            │
╰─────────────────────────────────────╯

Compare Models

aicost compare claude-opus-4.7 gpt-5.5 --currency USD

Get Recommendations

aicost recommend "fast cheap coding" --currency USD

Sync Latest Pricing

aicost sync

MCP Server

Start the Model Context Protocol server for AI agent integration:

aicost mcp

Registries

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to contribute, including pricing updates, bug reports, and code contributions.

Community

License

MIT — see LICENSE for details. Developed by Ufuk Aydın.

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