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Multimodal Cost Calculator

Calculate combined API costs for text, image, and audio inputs in a multimodal request.

About Multimodal Cost Calculator

Multimodal AI requests often mix text, image, and audio inputs/outputs, each billed under a different pricing unit — text and images per token, audio per minute. This calculator sums the cost contribution of each modality independently to produce a single blended total, making it easier to budget for real-world multimodal workloads like voice assistants with visual context.

Formula

total_cost = (text_tokens / 1M) × text_rate + (image_tokens / 1M) × image_rate + audio_minutes × audio_rate

text_tokens
Text token count
text_rate
Cost per million text tokens
image_tokens
Image token count
image_rate
Cost per million image tokens
audio_minutes
Audio duration in minutes
audio_rate
Cost per minute of audio

Worked example

With the default values below, Multimodal Cost Calculator returns Total Cost of $0.0900. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.

Inputs used

Text Tokensaccepts 0–100,000,000 tokens
5,000 tokens
Text Rateaccepts 0–200 $/1M tokens
5 $/1M tokens
Image Tokensaccepts 0–100,000,000 tokens
1,000 tokens
Image Rateaccepts 0–200 $/1M tokens
5 $/1M tokens
Audio Durationaccepts 0–1,000,000 minutes
10 minutes
Audio Rateaccepts 0–10 $/min
0.006 $/min

Results

Total Cost
$0.0900
Text Cost
$0.0250
Image Cost
$0.0050
Audio Cost
$0.0600

Step by step

  1. 1Text cost= $0.0250
  2. 2Image cost= $0.0050
  3. 3Audio cost= $0.0600
  4. 4Total cost= $0.0900

Assumptions and limits

  • The result is derived only from the 6 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
  • In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
  • Figures are rounded for display to 4 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.

How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why are text and image both priced per token?

Most vision-enabled LLMs convert images into an equivalent token count internally, so they can be billed under the same per-token pricing schedule as text.

Can I model output tokens separately from input?

This calculator treats each modality as a single blended rate; for detailed input/output split pricing use the Cost per Query Calculator alongside this one.

What if my workload has no audio component?

Set audio minutes to 0 — the audio cost term will simply drop out of the total.

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