LLM Cost Calculator

Estimate monthly API costs based on actual BluForce team volume across documentation and coding workloads.

Token assumptions per task — create: 5K in / 0.5K out · resolve: 3K in / 0.4K out · page: 8K in / 2.5K out.
Standard on-demand API rates. Set resolves to 0 if those are deterministic status changes.

Monthly savings: Opus → Scout
$33 / month · 97% lower cost
Opus 4.8premium
$34.32
Sonnet 4.6premium
$20.59
Llama 4 Scoutcost-optimised
$1.05
DeepSeek V4 Flashcost-optimised
$0.70

Bars scaled relative to Opus. Default values are last month's actual BluForce team activity (Apr 2026). Annualised: ~$410 on Opus vs ~$13 on Scout.

Token assumptions per task — commit (code gen): 25K in / 4K out · review: 15K in / 2K out · debug query: 8K in / 1K out.
Based on ~90 commits/month (Jun pace) across the team. Adjust debug queries for number of developers × ~8/day.

Monthly savings: Opus → Scout
$0 / month · 0% lower cost
Opus 4.8premium
$0
Sonnet 4.6premium
$0
Llama 4 Scoutcost-optimised
$0
DeepSeek V4 Flashcost-optimised
$0

Bars scaled relative to Opus. Default values based on BluForce onboarding repo: ~90 commits/month (Jun 2026 pace), ~45 PRs reviewed, ~150 ad-hoc debug/Q&A queries (~8/dev/day for a small team).

What this models

Each task that an LLM assists with involves an API call. The cost depends on:

Documentation tasks (ticket triage, page generation) are lightweight — cost-optimised models handle them well. Coding tasks use more tokens per interaction (larger context windows) but are still surprisingly cheap at scale.