AI Code Assistant Monthly Cost Estimator
Running an AI coding assistant for your dev team? Estimate API costs for code completion, review, and generation workloads.
Recommended Setup
Model
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
Monthly tokens
380M
300M in / 80M out
Estimated monthly cost
$2,100
Cost Comparison: All Cloud Models
Based on 300M input + 80M output tokens/month
| Model | Provider | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss-20b | OpenAI | $19.40 |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Qwen (Alibaba) | $19.40 |
| Llama 3.1 8B (Groq) | Groq | $21.40 |
| Gemma 3 4B | $23.00 | |
| gpt-oss-120b | OpenAI | $25.60 |
| Gemma 3 12B | $27.00 | |
| Gemma 3n 4B | $27.60 | |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | Qwen (Alibaba) | $30.20 |
| Doubao Seed 2.0 Mini | Doubao (ByteDance) | $32.20 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | DeepSeek | $40.60 |
| Qwen3.5-Flash | Qwen (Alibaba) | $41.80 |
| Qwen3.5-9B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $42.00 |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $43.40 |
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $46.00 |
| GPT-5 Nano | OpenAI | $47.00 |
| gpt-oss-safeguard-20b | OpenAI | $48.00 |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B | $48.20 | |
| GLM-4.7 Flash | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $50.00 |
| Qwen3 14B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $55.20 |
| Doubao Pro 32K | Doubao (ByteDance) | $55.40 |
| Hunyuan TurboS | Hunyuan (Tencent) | $55.40 |
| Gemma 4 31B | $57.20 | |
| Gemma 3 27B | $60.00 | |
| Llama 4 Scout (Groq) | Groq | $60.20 |
| GPT-4.1 Nano | OpenAI | $62.00 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $62.00 | |
| Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $63.60 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | DeepSeek | $64.40 |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | Qwen (Alibaba) | $71.00 |
| Qwen3.5-Flash | Qwen (Alibaba) | $72.00 |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $72.00 |
| Qwen3 30B A3B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $76.00 |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $80.60 |
| Hunyuan T1 | Hunyuan (Tencent) | $86.80 |
| GPT-4o-mini | OpenAI | $93.00 |
| GPT-OSS 120B (Groq) | Groq | $93.00 |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | Qwen (Alibaba) | $100 |
| GLM 4.5 Air | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $107 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | DeepSeek | $108 |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $118 |
| Qwen3.6 35B A3B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $122 |
| Qwen3 32B (Groq) | Groq | $134 |
| Qwen3 Coder Flash | Qwen (Alibaba) | $138 |
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $140 |
| Qwen3.5-Plus | Qwen (Alibaba) | $140 |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | Qwen (Alibaba) | $141 |
| Qwen3.6 Flash | Qwen (Alibaba) | $147 |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 | DeepSeek | $155 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | $156 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna Pro | OpenAI | $156 |
| GPT-5.4 Nano | OpenAI | $160 |
| DeepSeek V3 | DeepSeek | $160 |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DeepSeek | $161 |
| GLM 4.6V | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $162 |
| DeepSeek V3 (Mar 2025) | DeepSeek | $169 |
| Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $170 |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $175 |
| Qwen3.5-27B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $185 |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | $195 | |
| Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | $195 | |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | Qwen (Alibaba) | $198 |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Qwen (Alibaba) | $203 |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $215 |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | Qwen (Alibaba) | $222 |
| GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI | $235 |
| GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | OpenAI | $235 |
| Llama 3.3 70B (Groq) | Groq | $240 |
| Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $244 |
| GPT-4.1 Mini | OpenAI | $248 |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking | Qwen (Alibaba) | $252 |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 | Qwen (Alibaba) | $252 |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Qwen (Alibaba) | $253 |
| Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen (Alibaba) | $255 |
| GLM 4.7 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $260 |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | $264 | |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | DeepSeek | $267 |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $278 |
| Qwen3-Max | Qwen (Alibaba) | $281 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $290 | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | $290 | |
| Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | $290 | |
| DeepSeek V3.1 | DeepSeek | $297 |
| R1 Distill Llama 70B | DeepSeek | $304 |
| GLM 4.6 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $310 |
| Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Qwen (Alibaba) | $320 |
| R1 0528 | DeepSeek | $322 |
| GLM 4.5V | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $324 |
| Doubao Seed 2.0 Pro | Doubao (ByteDance) | $331 |
| Qwen3.8 27B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $333 |
| Llama 3.3 70B (Together) | Together AI | $334 |
| Qwen3.6 27B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $352 |
| Kimi K2 | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $355 |
| GLM 4.5 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $356 |
| GPT Audio Mini | OpenAI | $372 |
| Kimi K2.5 (Together) | Together AI | $374 |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $380 |
| Kimi K2 0905 | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $380 |
| Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | $390 | |
| DeepSeek R1 | DeepSeek | $410 |
| Kimi K2.5 | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $420 |
| Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $438 |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking | Qwen (Alibaba) | $440 |
| Qwen3 Coder Plus | Qwen (Alibaba) | $455 |
| Qwen3.5 397B (Together) | Together AI | $468 |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | $525 | |
| Qwen3 Max Thinking | Qwen (Alibaba) | $546 |
| GLM-5 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $556 |
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Anthropic | $560 |
| GPT-5.4 Mini | OpenAI | $585 |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $605 |
| Kimi K2.6 | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $605 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | DeepSeek | $606 |
| GLM-5-Turbo | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $680 |
| GLM 5V Turbo | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $680 |
| o4-mini | OpenAI | $682 |
| o3 Mini | OpenAI | $682 |
| o4 Mini High | OpenAI | $682 |
| o3 Mini High | OpenAI | $682 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | $700 |
| GLM-5.1 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $772 |
| GLM 5.3 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $772 |
| Qwen3.7 Max | Qwen (Alibaba) | $798 |
| GPT-5 Image Mini | OpenAI | $910 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro (Together) | Together AI | $982 |
| Moonshot V1 (128K) | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $1,000 |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | Qwen (Alibaba) | $1,080 |
| Qwen3.8 Max | Qwen (Alibaba) | $1,080 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $1,170 | |
| GPT-5 | OpenAI | $1,175 |
| GPT-5 Codex | OpenAI | $1,175 |
| GPT-5.1-Codex-Max | OpenAI | $1,175 |
| GPT-5.1 | OpenAI | $1,175 |
| GPT-5.1-Codex | OpenAI | $1,175 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $1,175 | |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 | $1,175 | |
| Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $1,210 |
| GPT-4.1 | OpenAI | $1,240 |
| o3 | OpenAI | $1,240 |
| o4 Mini Deep Research | OpenAI | $1,240 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | OpenAI | $1,400 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | $1,400 |
| GPT-4o | OpenAI | $1,550 |
| GPT Audio | OpenAI | $1,550 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | $1,560 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra Pro | OpenAI | $1,560 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | $1,560 | |
| Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) | $1,560 | |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools | $1,560 | |
| GPT-5.3 Chat | OpenAI | $1,645 |
| GPT-5.3-Codex | OpenAI | $1,645 |
| GPT-5.2-Codex | OpenAI | $1,645 |
| GPT-5.2 Chat | OpenAI | $1,645 |
| GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | $1,645 |
| GPT-5.4 | OpenAI | $1,950 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6★ recommended | Anthropic | $2,100 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Anthropic | $2,100 |
| Claude Sonnet 4 | Anthropic | $2,100 |
| Kimi K3 | Kimi (Moonshot AI) | $2,100 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | $3,500 |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Anthropic | $3,500 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | $3,500 |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | $3,500 |
| Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | $3,500 |
| GPT-5.4 Image 2 | OpenAI | $3,600 |
| GPT-5 Image | OpenAI | $3,800 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | $3,900 |
| GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | $3,900 |
| GLM-5.2 | Zhipu AI (GLM) | $4,640 |
| o3 Deep Research | OpenAI | $6,200 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) | Anthropic | $7,000 |
| Claude Opus 5 (Fast) | Anthropic | $7,000 |
| Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | $7,000 |
| o1 | OpenAI | $9,300 |
| Claude Opus 4.1 | Anthropic | $10,500 |
| Claude Opus 4 | Anthropic | $10,500 |
| o3 Pro | OpenAI | $12,400 |
| GPT-5 Pro | OpenAI | $14,100 |
| GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | $19,740 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) | Anthropic | $21,000 |
| Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) | Anthropic | $21,000 |
| GPT-5.5 Pro | OpenAI | $23,400 |
| GPT-5.4 Pro | OpenAI | $23,400 |
| o1-pro | OpenAI | $93,000 |
Frequently Asked Questions
How many tokens does a code completion request use?
Code completion requests typically send 1,000–8,000 input tokens (surrounding code context) and receive 50–500 output tokens. A team of 10 engineers making 200 completions/day could use 60–150M tokens/month.
Which model is best for AI code assistance?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.8 consistently lead coding benchmarks and are popular in tools like Cursor. GPT-5.4 is also excellent. For budget-conscious teams, GPT-5.4 Mini handles autocomplete well at $0.75/1M input.
Can I run a code assistant on a local GPU?
Yes. Models like CodeLlama 34B or Llama 3 70B (quantized) are suitable for code assistance. An A100 80G handles Llama 3 70B comfortably. For a team of 5-10 developers, a single A100 may be cost-effective vs cloud APIs.