GenAI Token Economics & Licensing Cost Calculator

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Token Economics & Licensing Cost Calculator

Enter your usage profile and pricing — we compute token consumption, compare API consumption vs seat licensing, find the breakeven, and give you a total-cost-of-ownership view with a whitepaper on how token economics really works.

Token Economics & Licensing Cost Calculator

Enter your usage profile and pricing — we compute token consumption, API vs seat-licensing cost, the breakeven, and a total-cost-of-ownership view. Every field has a tooltip; all numbers are pre-filled with sensible defaults so you can edit, not start from scratch.

The GenAI workload you are costing — e.g. 'contract review', 'sales email drafting', 'support ticket summarisation'.

All costs are shown in this currency. Prices convert from USD using indicative (non-live) FX rates.

Usage profile

People who will actually use the tool in scope — not the whole org. Drives total token volume.

Each prompt = one model call. 8/day is a light knowledge worker; 20/day is a power user.

≈0.75 of a word, or ~4 chars. 800 tokens ≈ a 600-word brief + system instructions. Pasting a long doc inflates this fast.

What the model generates. 400 tokens ≈ 300 words. Output is billed ~5× input, so this is the bigger lever.

Business days the workload runs. 20 is standard; use 22 for a 5-day operational team.

API / token pricing

Sets indicative USD list prices you can then edit. Frontier = top reasoning at ~5× cost; Standard = the sweet spot for most work; Fast/Light = high-volume, low-complexity routing.

List price for the selected tier in USD. Edit if you have a negotiated or committed-use rate.

USD

Usually 3–5× the input price. Edit if you have a negotiated rate.

USD

Providers discount cached repeated prefixes (system prompts, fixed context) — up to 50–80% off input on the cached portion. 0 if you don't cache.

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Seat licensing (for comparison)

Per-user-per-month seats. Defaults to your active-user count; reduce if only some users need a seat.

Flat enterprise seat price (e.g. ChatGPT Enterprise ~$30–60, Copilot ~$30). You pay this even for idle users.

USD

API / yr

$806

Seats / yr

$18,000

Tokens / mo

9.6M

Cheaper model

API consumption

saves $17,194/yr