Batch API Savings Calculator
Most LLM providers offer roughly 50% off when you submit work through their batch API instead of realtime endpoints. Enter your monthly token volume to see exactly what moving suitable workloads to batch would save.
% (50% is the industry-standard batch discount - check your provider)
Realtime vs batch, per month
| Model | In / Out per 1M | Realtime cost | Batch cost | You save |
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Which workloads suit batch? Batch APIs trade latency for price: jobs are queued and typically complete within minutes to 24 hours. Great fits:
- Bulk classification, tagging, moderation, and data extraction pipelines
- Embedding or summarizing large document backlogs
- Nightly report generation, evals, and synthetic data creation
- Re-processing historical data after a prompt change