Batch Processing LLM API Cost Estimator
Running nightly batch jobs — document classification, data extraction, or content moderation? Estimate monthly API costs at scale with high token volumes.
Recommended Setup
Model
DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek
Monthly tokens
550M
500M in / 50M out
Estimated monthly cost
$53.50
Cost Comparison: All Cloud Models
Based on 500M input + 50M output tokens/month
| Model | Provider | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss-20b | OpenAI | $21.50 |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Qwen (Alibaba) | $21.50 |
| gpt-oss-120b | OpenAI | $28.50 |
| Llama 3.1 8B (Groq) | Groq | $29.00 |
| Doubao Seed 2.0 Mini | Doubao (ByteDance) | $29.50 |
| Gemma 3 4B | $30.00 | |
| Gemma 3 12B | $32.50 | |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | Qwen (Alibaba) | $34.50 |
| Gemma 3n 4B | $36.00 | |
| GPT-5 Nano | OpenAI | $45.00 |
| Qwen3.5-Flash | Qwen (Alibaba) | $48.00 |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $49.00 |
| GLM-4.7 Flash | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $50.00 |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B | $52.00 | |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash★ recommended | DeepSeek | $53.50 |
| gpt-oss-safeguard-20b | OpenAI | $55.00 |
| Qwen3.5-9B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $57.50 |
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $60.00 |
| Gemma 3 27B | $62.50 | |
| Gemma 4 31B | $67.00 | |
| Doubao Pro 32K | Doubao (ByteDance) | $69.00 |
| Hunyuan TurboS | Hunyuan (Tencent) | $69.00 |
| GPT-4.1 Nano | OpenAI | $70.00 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $70.00 | |
| Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $71.00 |
| Llama 4 Scout (Groq) | Groq | $72.00 |
| Qwen3 14B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $72.00 |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | Qwen (Alibaba) | $72.50 |
| Qwen3.5-Flash | Qwen (Alibaba) | $82.50 |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $82.50 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | DeepSeek | $84.00 |
| Qwen3 30B A3B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $85.00 |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $91.00 |
| Hunyuan T1 | Hunyuan (Tencent) | $98.00 |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | Qwen (Alibaba) | $100 |
| GPT-4o-mini | OpenAI | $105 |
| GPT-OSS 120B (Groq) | Groq | $105 |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $105 |
| GLM 4.5 Air | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $108 |
| Qwen3.6 35B A3B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $120 |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | Qwen (Alibaba) | $135 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | DeepSeek | $149 |
| Qwen3 Coder Flash | Qwen (Alibaba) | $149 |
| Qwen3.6 Flash | Qwen (Alibaba) | $152 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | $160 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna Pro | OpenAI | $160 |
| GPT-5.4 Nano | OpenAI | $163 |
| Qwen3.5-Plus | Qwen (Alibaba) | $169 |
| Qwen3 32B (Groq) | Groq | $175 |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 | DeepSeek | $175 |
| Qwen3.5-27B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $178 |
| DeepSeek V3 | DeepSeek | $182 |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DeepSeek | $185 |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $188 |
| DeepSeek V3 (Mar 2025) | DeepSeek | $190 |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | Qwen (Alibaba) | $195 |
| GLM 4.6V | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $195 |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | $200 | |
| Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | $200 | |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $200 |
| Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $200 |
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $200 |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Qwen (Alibaba) | $208 |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking | Qwen (Alibaba) | $220 |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 | Qwen (Alibaba) | $220 |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | Qwen (Alibaba) | $224 |
| GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI | $225 |
| GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | OpenAI | $225 |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Qwen (Alibaba) | $230 |
| Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $234 |
| Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen (Alibaba) | $263 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $275 | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | $275 | |
| Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | $275 | |
| GPT-4.1 Mini | OpenAI | $280 |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | $284 | |
| GLM 4.7 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $288 |
| Qwen3-Max | Qwen (Alibaba) | $316 |
| Qwen3.6 27B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $320 |
| Llama 3.3 70B (Groq) | Groq | $335 |
| Qwen3.8 27B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $343 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | DeepSeek | $348 |
| GLM 4.6 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $350 |
| Doubao Seed 2.0 Pro | Doubao (ByteDance) | $354 |
| DeepSeek V3.1 | DeepSeek | $358 |
| R1 0528 | DeepSeek | $358 |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $380 |
| Kimi K2.5 (Together) | Together AI | $390 |
| GLM 4.5V | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $390 |
| Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | $400 | |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking | Qwen (Alibaba) | $400 |
| Kimi K2 | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $400 |
| GLM 4.5 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $410 |
| GPT Audio Mini | OpenAI | $420 |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $425 |
| Kimi K2 0905 | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $425 |
| Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $430 |
| R1 Distill Llama 70B | DeepSeek | $440 |
| Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $450 |
| Kimi K2.5 | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $450 |
| DeepSeek R1 | DeepSeek | $475 |
| Qwen3.5 397B (Together) | Together AI | $480 |
| Llama 3.3 70B (Together) | Together AI | $484 |
| Qwen3 Coder Plus | Qwen (Alibaba) | $488 |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | $563 | |
| Qwen3 Max Thinking | Qwen (Alibaba) | $585 |
| GPT-5.4 Mini | OpenAI | $600 |
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Anthropic | $600 |
| GLM-5 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $660 |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $675 |
| Kimi K2.6 | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $675 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | DeepSeek | $729 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | $750 |
| o4-mini | OpenAI | $770 |
| o3 Mini | OpenAI | $770 |
| o4 Mini High | OpenAI | $770 |
| o3 Mini High | OpenAI | $770 |
| GLM-5-Turbo | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $800 |
| GLM 5V Turbo | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $800 |
| GLM-5.1 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $920 |
| GLM 5.3 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $920 |
| Qwen3.7 Max | Qwen (Alibaba) | $962 |
| GPT-5 | OpenAI | $1,125 |
| GPT-5 Codex | OpenAI | $1,125 |
| GPT-5.1-Codex-Max | OpenAI | $1,125 |
| GPT-5.1 | OpenAI | $1,125 |
| GPT-5.1-Codex | OpenAI | $1,125 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $1,125 | |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 | $1,125 | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $1,200 | |
| Moonshot V1 (128K) | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $1,250 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro (Together) | Together AI | $1,270 |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $1,300 |
| Qwen3.8 Max | Qwen (Alibaba) | $1,300 |
| GPT-5 Image Mini | OpenAI | $1,350 |
| Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $1,350 |
| GPT-4.1 | OpenAI | $1,400 |
| o3 | OpenAI | $1,400 |
| o4 Mini Deep Research | OpenAI | $1,400 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | OpenAI | $1,500 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | $1,500 |
| GPT-5.3 Chat | OpenAI | $1,575 |
| GPT-5.3-Codex | OpenAI | $1,575 |
| GPT-5.2-Codex | OpenAI | $1,575 |
| GPT-5.2 Chat | OpenAI | $1,575 |
| GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | $1,575 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | $1,600 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra Pro | OpenAI | $1,600 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | $1,600 | |
| Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) | $1,600 | |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools | $1,600 | |
| GPT-4o | OpenAI | $1,750 |
| GPT Audio | OpenAI | $1,750 |
| GPT-5.4 | OpenAI | $2,000 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | $2,250 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Anthropic | $2,250 |
| Claude Sonnet 4 | Anthropic | $2,250 |
| Kimi K3 | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $2,250 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | $3,750 |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Anthropic | $3,750 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | $3,750 |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | $3,750 |
| Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | $3,750 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | $4,000 |
| GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | $4,000 |
| GPT-5.4 Image 2 | OpenAI | $4,750 |
| GLM-5.2 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $5,400 |
| GPT-5 Image | OpenAI | $5,500 |
| o3 Deep Research | OpenAI | $7,000 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) | Anthropic | $7,500 |
| Claude Opus 5 (Fast) | Anthropic | $7,500 |
| Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | $7,500 |
| o1 | OpenAI | $10,500 |
| Claude Opus 4.1 | Anthropic | $11,250 |
| Claude Opus 4 | Anthropic | $11,250 |
| GPT-5 Pro | OpenAI | $13,500 |
| o3 Pro | OpenAI | $14,000 |
| GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | $18,900 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) | Anthropic | $22,500 |
| Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) | Anthropic | $22,500 |
| GPT-5.5 Pro | OpenAI | $24,000 |
| GPT-5.4 Pro | OpenAI | $24,000 |
| o1-pro | OpenAI | $105,000 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Which LLM is best for high-volume batch processing?
For pure batch throughput, DeepSeek V4 Flash ($0.27/1M input) and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite ($0.10/1M) are the top picks. Doubao Seed 2.0 Mini ($0.03/1M) is the cheapest option for classification tasks that don't need high reasoning. For quality-sensitive extraction, Claude Haiku 4.5 ($1/1M) is cost-effective with strong accuracy.
Does batch API pricing save money for large jobs?
Yes — Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all offer batch API discounts of 25–50%. Claude Haiku 4.5 batch mode drops to $0.50/1M input. OpenAI's Batch API offers 50% off. These discounts make batch processing significantly cheaper than real-time API calls.
When should I move batch processing to a self-hosted GPU?
At 500M+ input tokens/month, cloud API costs typically range $50–500 depending on model. An A100 server running Llama 3 70B or Mistral Large can process 1B+ tokens/month at ~$1–3 per GPU-hour. At that scale, self-hosting often has a payback period under 3 months.