Describe the work in plain terms: how many requests, how long the prompts are, how much of it repeats. The calculator prices it against every model whose vendor publishes a rate, applies the caching and batch discounts those vendors actually offer, and converts to Australian dollars.
Prices read off vendor pricing pages on 7 September 2026. Nothing is estimated: where a vendor publishes no rate, the model is left out of the pricing and marked instead.
Each line changes one thing and holds the rest of your inputs steady. Figures are per month in Australian dollars.
The same volume, the same prompt length, the same cache and batch settings, run against every model whose vendor publishes a rate. Where a vendor offers no cache or batch rate, that discount is simply not applied. It is not assumed.
| Model | Origin | Licence | Per month | Per year | vs yours |
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All figures Australian dollars, converted at the rate in the panel above. Per-model source links and Australian availability are on the model comparison page.
Every price in this tool was read off the vendor's own pricing page on 7 September 2026 and is the standard list rate in US dollars per million tokens. Where a vendor publishes no price, as with Cohere's newest flagship, Microsoft's Phi family and Amazon's Nova 2 Lite, no number is shown at all.
Two levers move an AI bill far more than model choice does: how much of each prompt repeats, and whether the answer can wait. Caching typically cuts the input side by 80–90% where the vendor offers it, and batch halves most of the bill again. A team that gets both right can run a more capable model for less than a careless team pays for a cheap one.
Prices move. This page is a planning tool, not a quote. Check the vendor's page before you commit a budget. Not financial advice.
Everything above prices an API workload. Most Australian businesses never touch an API. They buy seats, and the seat price is where the money actually goes. Thirty-nine plans below, read off each vendor's own pricing page on 7 September 2026, using the Australian version of the page where one exists.
| Vendor | Plan | Annual rate | Month to month | Currency | Seats | What catches people out | Source |
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Rates are per user per month unless the vendor publishes a yearly figure, in which case we show the yearly figure and do not divide it, because that division would be our number rather than theirs. Quote-only plans are shown as not published. Australian dollar conversions in the calculator use — AUD per USD as at 7 September 2026, which is our conversion and not a vendor price.
