How much AI can you afford?

Pick a monthly budget and what you want to do. We'll show you exactly how much AI intelligence each provider delivers for your money — sorted by best value.

AI cost calculator

What do you want to do?

Code generation, debugging, refactoring

$20 per month

Llama

Best value
1,398,601intelligence per $1
Tokens per $1
1.7M
For $20/mo
63.6M
≈ months of coding
97.8
Per 1M (in / out)
$0.20 / $0.70

Prices verified 2026-08-11

DeepSeek

904,617intelligence per $1
Tokens per $1
904.6k
For $20/mo
25.7M
≈ months of coding
39.6
Per 1M (in / out)
$0.63 / $1.26

Prices verified 2026-08-11

Grok

200,000intelligence per $1
Tokens per $1
200.0k
For $20/mo
6.8M
≈ months of coding
10.5
Per 1M (in / out)
$2 / $6

Prices verified 2026-08-11

Gemini

105,263intelligence per $1
Tokens per $1
105.3k
For $20/mo
4.6M
≈ months of coding
7.1
Per 1M (in / out)
$2 / $12

Prices verified 2026-08-11

Claude

50,000intelligence per $1
Tokens per $1
50.0k
For $20/mo
2.1M
≈ months of coding
3.2
Per 1M (in / out)
$5 / $25

Prices verified 2026-08-11

ChatGPT

42,105intelligence per $1
Tokens per $1
42.1k
For $20/mo
1.9M
≈ months of coding
2.9
Per 1M (in / out)
$5 / $30

Prices verified 2026-08-11

Sorted by value. The intelligence score weights tokens per dollar by each model's capability tier — see the raw tokens-per-dollar figure too. How this works.