AI SEO Token & API Cost Calculator
Calculate exact API token costs across leading AI model providers for large-scale website audits, topic clustering, and schema generation.
Deep reasoning & AST refactoring
Fastest execution & 2M context
82% cheaper than proprietary models
Turnkey ChatGPT Action API
Zero API fee (Local Hardware)
Frequently Asked Questions About Token Costs
Verified answers to common technical and architectural questions.
How are the token cost estimates calculated?
Costs are calculated based on standard multi-pass audit token consumption (~4,500 tokens per audited page) multiplied by current official API pricing per 1M input/output tokens (August 2026 rates).
Why is DeepSeek R1 and Local Hermes so much cheaper?
DeepSeek R1 provides high-reasoning capabilities at $0.55/1M tokens (90% cheaper than Claude/GPT-4o), while local open-weight models like Nous Hermes-3 on Ollama run on your own hardware with $0.00 in ongoing API fees.