AI Cost CLI

Terminal-based AI API cost calculator, recommender, and mcp server.

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Client Config & Setup

Choose your client or environment

Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-cost-cli": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ai-cost-cli"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

AI-Cost-CLI

A terminal-based calculator and recommendation engine for AI API costs. Supports multiple providers, local currency conversion, and automated pricing updates.

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

Terminal

pip install aicost-cli

With MCP server support:

Terminal

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
MCP Registry — io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli
Smithery.ai
Skills.sh

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to contribute, including pricing updates, bug reports, and code contributions.

Community

License

MIT — see LICENSE for details. Developed by Ufuk Aydın.

Read the full README →View source on GitHub →

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Frequently Asked Questions about AI Cost CLI

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "ai-cost-cli": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "AI-Cost-CLI"] } }

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AI Cost CLI

Terminal-based AI API cost calculator, recommender, and mcp server.

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Client Config & Setup

Choose your client or environment

Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-cost-cli": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ai-cost-cli"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

AI-Cost-CLI

A terminal-based calculator and recommendation engine for AI API costs. Supports multiple providers, local currency conversion, and automated pricing updates.

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

Terminal

pip install aicost-cli

With MCP server support:

Terminal

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
MCP Registry — io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli
Smithery.ai
Skills.sh

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to contribute, including pricing updates, bug reports, and code contributions.

Community

License

MIT — see LICENSE for details. Developed by Ufuk Aydın.

Read the full README →View source on GitHub →

Related MCP Servers

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Reviews

No reviews yet — be the first to share how this listing worked for you.

Frequently Asked Questions about AI Cost CLI

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "ai-cost-cli": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "AI-Cost-CLI"] } }

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Technical Specs & Signals

CategoryDeveloper Tools

27Quality signal: Emerging · 27/100How this signal is calculated ▾

Server availabilityNot measured

Not scored for repo-hosted servers — we can't reach the running server, only its GitHub page. Hosted MCP endpoints are health-checked live.

Verified ownership8/20

Documentation & tools11/30

Adoption & activity1/15

Community engagement0/10

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