AI-Cost-CLI
AI API cost calculator, recommender & MCP server. 29 models across text/image/video/audio.
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AI API cost calculator, recommender & MCP server. 29 models across text/image/video/audio.
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- Kind
- MCP servers
- Topic
- Developer tools
- Publisher
- ufhouck
- Origin
- official
- Category
- ferramentas
- Transport
- local
- Version
- 1.1.0
- Stars
- 1
- Last push
- 2026-08-30T04:52:04Z
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- Python
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- MIT
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- 2026-08-29 04:01:36
- Updated
- 2026-08-29 04:01:36
- Origin id
io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli
README
# AI-Cost-CLI
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A terminal-based calculator and recommendation engine for AI API costs. Supports multiple providers, local currency conversion, and automated pricing updates.
<!-- mcp-name: io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli -->
## Preview: Direct vs. Aggregator Comparison
Compare the effective cost of using models directly vs. through gateways like **OpenRouter**, including platform fees.
```text
Comparison: gpt-4o vs openrouter/gpt-4o
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Attribute ┃ gpt-4o ┃ openrouter/gpt-4o ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Provider │ OpenAI │ OpenRouter │
├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Source │ Direct │ Aggregator │
├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Platform Fee │ 0.0% │ 5.5% │
├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Type │ text │ text │
├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Input Cost │ 111.4775 TRY (1M) │ 117.6088 TRY (1M) │
├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Output/Unit Cost │ 445.9100 TRY (1M) │ 470.4350 TRY (1M) │
└──────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
```
## Supported Models
### Text Models
| Model | Provider | Input/1M | Output/1M | Tags |
|-------|----------|----------|-----------|------|
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 | reasoning, coding, vision, agentic |
| GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | $5.00 | $30.00 | multimodal, coding, agentic |
| GPT-5.5 Pro | OpenAI | $30.00 | $180.00 | precision, enterprise, agentic |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | $3.00 | $15.00 | coding, fast, general |
| GPT-4o | OpenAI | $2.50 | $10.00 | reasoning, coding, vision |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | Google | $2.00 | $12.00 | long-context, multimodal |
| DeepSeek R1 | DeepSeek | $0.55 | $2.19 | reasoning, coding, smart |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | Google | $0.30 | $2.50 | fast, reasoning, legacy |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | Google | $0.25 | $1.50 | fast, cheap, agentic |
| DeepSeek V3 | DeepSeek | $0.14 | $0.28 | general, coding, cheap |
### Image, Video & Audio Models
| Model | Provider | Price | Type |
|-------|----------|-------|------|
| Imagen 4 Fast | Google | $0.02/image | Image |
| GPT-Image-1 | OpenAI | $0.02/image | Image |
| DALL-E 3 | OpenAI | $0.04/image | Image |
| Imagen 4 Ultra | Google | $0.06/image | Image |
| Veo 3 Lite | Google | $0.05/sec | Video |
| Veo 3 | Google | $0.40/sec | Video |
| Lyria 3 Clip | Google | $0.04/clip | Music |
| Lyria 3 Pro | Google | $0.08/song | Music |
| Whisper | OpenAI | $0.006/min | Speech-to-Text |
| TTS Standard | OpenAI | $15/1M chars | Text-to-Speech |
> Full list available via `aicost list --currency USD`
## Features
- **Infrastructure Comparison:** Compare **Direct** providers vs. **Aggregators** (OpenRouter) and **Gateways** (Portkey, LiteLLM, Martian).
- **Transparent Commissions:** Automatically calculates platform fees (e.g., OpenRouter's 5.5% credit fee).
- **Direct Cost Calculation:** Full breakdown of base costs and platform middle-layer fees.
- **Currency Conversion:** Real-time conversion to local currencies (TRY, EUR, etc.) with offline fallback.
- **Automated Pricing:** Weekly automated updates from official provider documentation.
- **MCP Server:** Native support for AI agents (Cursor, Claude Desktop).
## Installation
```bash
pip install aicost-cli
```
With MCP server support:
```bash
pip install aicost-cli[mcp]
```
Or from source:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/ufhouck/aicost.git
cd aicost
pip install -e .
```
## Usage
### List All Models
```bash
aicost list --currency TRY
```
### Calculate Cost
```bash
# Text model — token-based
aicost calc claude-opus-4.7 --input 1000000 --output 500000 --currency TRY
# With platform fee breakdown (aggregators)
aicost calc openrouter/gpt-4o --input 1000000 --output 500000 --currency TRY
```
**Output Example:**
```text
╭───────── Cost Calculation ──────────╮
│ Model: openrouter/gpt-4o │
│ Source: Aggregator │
│ │
│ Base Cost: 316.9976 TRY │
│ Platform Fee (5.5%): 17.4349 TRY │
│ │
│ Total Cost: 334.4325 TRY │
╰─────────────────────────────────────╯
```
### Compare Models
```bash
aicost compare claude-opus-4.7 gpt-5.5 --currency USD
```
### Get Recommendations
```bash
aicost recommend "fast cheap coding" --currency USD
```
### Sync Latest Pricing
```bash
aicost sync
```
## MCP Server
Start the Model Context Protocol server for AI agent integration:
```bash
aicost mcp
```
## Registries
- [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/aicost-cli/)
- [MCP Registry](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io) — `io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli`
- [Smithery.ai](https://smithery.ai/skills/ufhouck-oskt/aicost)
- [Skills.sh](https://skills.sh/ufhouck/aicost/aicost)
## Contributing
See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines on how to contribute, including pricing updates, bug reports, and code contributions.
## Community
- [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
- [Security Policy](SECURITY.md)
- [Privacy Policy](PRIVACY.md)
- [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md)
## License
MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details. Developed by [Ufuk Aydın](https://ufukaydin.com).