Each agent step carries the last one's context forward. Tool calls pile on top. By step 8 you can be paying 10× what you paid on step 1 — invisibly.
Per-seat pricing looks cheap for one developer and breaks down across a team. The real question is API spend versus seats at your headcount.
Input, output and cache pricing vary dramatically across models. Headline per-token rates rarely predict which provider actually wins your workload.
Set steps per run, tool calls per step, and how much context carries over between steps. Start from a preset or build your own.
Pick instruction size, message volume, and response length in plain English — no token counting required.
See cost per run, daily and monthly totals, and exactly which model wins — across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Grok and Mistral.
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Team API cost forecasting vs per-seat alternatives — model spend at 1 to 5,000 developers.
Pricing history
$/MTok input — Anthropic, OpenAI and Google flagship models 2023–2026
Pricing data sourced from official provider pages · Verified July 2026 · Supported providers