Cost and Reliability Calculator

Estimate monthly spend, expected failed requests, and fallback overhead based on your traffic profile. Use this to choose safer default routing policies before incidents happen.

Inputs

Requests per day

Avg input tokens/request

Avg output tokens/request

Cost per 1M tokens (USD)

Provider uptime (%)

Fallback cost multiplier

Fallback activation on failures (%)

Estimated Monthly Outcomes

Monthly Tokens

Base Monthly Cost

Failed Requests/Month

Fallback Cost Overhead

Projected Total Cost

Reliability Grade

Update any input to calculate recommendations.

How to Use This

Use real traffic baselines from the last 30 days.
Model conservative fallback activation during outages (60-90%).
Compare two providers by changing uptime and cost per 1M tokens.
Use output to set budget alerts and fallback runbooks.