Cost & VRAM Calculators

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Calculated Q4_K_M GiB budgets at 8K context for four named model architectures, with FP16 KV cache and a runtime allowance. Mobile reference view.

Primary Source: Hugging Face · Ollama

Cost & VRAM Calculators11-09 Verified

Local LLM GPU VRAM Calculator: GGUF Quantization Bit-Widths, KV Cache & Hardware Tiers

Estimate GGUF weight memory and architecture-based FP16 KV cache for four reference models. Use GiB consistently, include runtime allowance, and compare a capacity budget with actual available VRAM.

Vendor rate reference for seven Claude and Gemini prompt tiers, showing separate standard and batch cache-read prices. Mobile reference view.

Primary Source: Anthropic · Google Docs

Cost & VRAM Calculators11-09 Verified

LLM API Token Pricing, Prompt Caching & Batch Discount Formulas (Claude 5.5 vs. Gemini 4 Argon)

A side-by-side breakdown of per-million token rates, 5-minute and 1-hour prompt caching multipliers, 50% asynchronous batch discounts, and tokenizer overhead across Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5, and Google Gemini 4 Argon / 3.8 Flash.