Multimodal Cost Calculator
Combine text, image, and audio usage into a single blended cost estimate for multimodal AI requests.
Inputs
Total Cost
$0.0900
Text Cost
$0.0250
Image Cost
$0.0050
Audio Cost
$0.0600
Step by step
Text cost
(5000 ÷ 1,000,000) × $5.0000
= $0.0250
Image cost
(1000 ÷ 1,000,000) × $5.0000
= $0.0050
Audio cost
10 × $0.0060
= $0.0600
Total cost
$0.0250 + $0.0050 + $0.0600
= $0.0900
How it works
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
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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