AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TokenScale
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites.
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The LLM providers are constantly adding new models and updating their API prices. Anyone building AI applications knows that these prices are very important to their bottom line. The only place I am aware of is going to these provider's individual website pages to check the price per token. To solve this inconvenience I spent a few hours making pricepertoken.com which has the latest model's up-to-date prices all in one place. Thinking about adding image models too especially since you have multiple options (fal, replicate) to use the same model and the prices are not always the same.
2025 · pricepertoken.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Tokencost is a utility library for estimating LLM costs. There are hundreds of different models now, and they all have their own pricing schemes. It’s difficult to keep up with the pricing changes, and it’s even more difficult to estimate how much your prompts and completions will cost until you see the bill. Tokencost works by counting the number of tokens in prompt and completion messages and multiplying that number by the corresponding model cost. Under the hood, it’s really just a simple cost dictionary and some utility functions for getting the prices right. It also accounts for…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LLM Pricing▲178LLMs price comparison tool developed and updated by LLM
2024 · ailesson.io · its alternatives →
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TokenCounter▲117Count tokens and estimate costs for any AI model
2024 · tokencounter.co · its alternatives →
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Calculate and compare the cost of the latest LLM APIs
2024 · docsbot.ai · its alternatives →
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Tokenwise▲143A smart LLM proxy that shows where you're overpaying
Jun 2026 · tokenwisehq.com · its alternatives →
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Live pricing for 309+ AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek) plus real-world cost calculators: chatbots, API budgets, and token math. Updated 2026-09-06.
Aug 2026 · costperprompt.com · its alternatives →
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P402.io▲102Route, verify, and settle paid API calls with clear traces
Jan 2026 · p402.io · its alternatives →
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Estimate price for using different AI model API's
2025 · tap2solve.com · its alternatives →
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Compare OpenAI, Claude & Gemini costs for your exact task
Jul 2026 · officeskillset.com · its alternatives →
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Input token counts and costs for over 160 AI models.
2024 · zatomic.ai · its alternatives →
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Real-time AI API price comparison across 20+ providers
Jun 2026 · computeunion.net · its alternatives →
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High-volume AI API. 4.5x cheaper than OpenAI
Dec 2025 · tokenthon.com · its alternatives →
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See what 1M AI tokens actually looks like, in dollars
Jul 2026 · whatisamilliontokens.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I was once given the advice: Don't waste expensive frontier model credits (GPT/Claude/etc.) on bulk work. Send the boring, repetitive, high-volume jobs to a smaller model, and save the expensive prompts for when you actually need frontier-level reasoning. I complained and told my manager that I shouldnt have to think about using certain models for certain coding tasks, and that one model should handle everything. Well, here we are anyway. If anyone needs a place to absolutely abuse an LLM with high-volume tasks, come beat ours up at https://yolo-auto.com. Here are…
Jul 2026 · yolo-auto.com · its alternatives →
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I code on Claude's pay as you go API and started budgeting my token usage with my own CLI wrapper. Basically I set a budget for a task that I'm working on in my project: Task: "Fix mobile responsiveness" Budget: $3.00 and the budget updates after each prompt: Task: "Fix mobile responsiveness" Budget: $2.34 / $3.00 78% It helps keep an eye on my spending when working on projects.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Compare AI API costs before you send
May 2026 · prompt-cost-calculator-ten.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built an alternative to Google translate that's fast, accurate, and 1/30th the price. 20+ supported languages, not billed until 100k tokens, and already used thousands of times with real language learning users. The landing page has a demo for you to test performance yourself for free with no card required. (Also landing page says 1/13 the price because had to account for all 3 big names, with varying prices each). I built this as a workaround for my language learning startup, and it was perfect at a fraction of the cost. Hopefully it can help other devs in accessibility…
2023 · translateapi.web.app · its alternatives →
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Cut your Claude and GPT API costs by up to 96%
Jul 2026 · cheap-ai-apis.carrd.co · its alternatives →
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One API. Lowest token prices.
Jul 2026 · videorouter.sh · its alternatives →
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