Does a router add cost?

Routers typically add a small percentage fee on top of provider pricing, which is usually offset by the ability to fall back to cheaper models.

Can I mix providers in one product?

Yes. Most teams route simple requests to a cheap model and escalate only the hard ones to a frontier model.

Base token prices generally match provider list pricing, but discounts, caching, and batch tiers may differ.

Compare routed model costs across every provider in one estimate.

Pricing dataset updated Aug 28, 2026

Model

Input tokens per request

Output tokens per request

Requests per month

Cached input share

Estimated monthly cost

$147.50

Estimates use public list pricing per 1M tokens. Batch, enterprise, and regional rates may differ.

Routing platforms bill provider list price plus a small platform fee. The main saving comes from switching models, not from the router itself.

Use this calculator to price the same workload against several providers before you commit to one in production.

Moving 5M input tokens per month from GPT-5 to DeepSeek V3.2 drops input cost from about $6,250 to about $1,400.