Token Factory Savings Calculator — FlexAI
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    Token Factory Savings

    Cut your inference bill by switching to open-source

    Compare what you're paying OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google against equivalent-quality open-source models on FlexAI Token Factory — for text generation and image generation.

    What you're paying today

    $1.25/M input · $10.00/M output

    Shapes the recommendation and the default input/output mix.

    100M
    1M10B

    Recommended open-source swap

    Frontier chat + code — #1 open model on OpenRouter

    $0.28/M input · $0.42/M output · indicative

    GPT-5 monthly cost

    $475

    with FlexAI Token Factory

    DeepSeek V3.2 monthly cost

    $34

    You save

    93%

    on every token, vs. GPT-5

    $441 / month

    $5,297 / year

    Start saving → Talk to an expertSee full pricing

    Token Factory goes live May 9, 2026 — get early access.

    Closed-source rates reflect published API pricing at the time of export. Token Factory rates are indicative pre-launch and will be finalized on May 9, 2026.

    Why open-source costs less

    No proprietary markup

    Closed-source APIs price in R&D recovery, brand, and margin on top of compute. Open-weights models on Token Factory are priced to the underlying inference cost — you pay for tokens (or images), not for the label on the box.

    Same quality tier, different economics

    Open-weights models — Llama 4, Qwen 3, DeepSeek V3.2, FLUX.1 — are competitive with frontier closed-source offerings on a growing number of public benchmarks, and for many production workloads they're a drop-in swap.

    FAQ

    How this calculator works, and what the numbers mean.

    Where do the closed-source prices come from?
    Published API rates from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google as of April 2026 — the same per-unit figures you'd see on their pricing pages. For text, we blend input and output token rates using the input/output mix you set under Advanced.
    What prices are you using for the open-source models?
    Per-model indicative pre-launch rates, sourced from the FlexAI Token Factory model database (pricepertoken.com, OpenRouter, Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI). They're labelled indicative in each model picker. FlexAI-published rates replace these on May 9, 2026.
    What about image models?
    Covered in the Image tab above. We compare DALL-E 3, GPT-Image-1, Imagen 4, and Gemini 2.5 Flash Image ("Nano Banana") against FLUX.1 on FlexAI Token Factory.
    Why does the recommended open-source model change when I switch use case?
    Different open-weights models lead in different workloads — DeepSeek R1 and Kimi K2.5 for reasoning, Qwen 3 Coder for code, Llama 4 Maverick for long-context RAG, GPT-OSS 120B for general chat at mid-tier cost. The picker ranks by use-case fit first, then by price.
    How will this stay current as new models ship?
    The model catalogues and prices live in a small set of data files kept in lockstep with the FlexAI Token Factory model database — we refresh whenever a new frontier-class model lands or a provider re-prices, and we'll do a full pass at every Token Factory pricing update.
    How do I know an open-source model is good enough?
    Run an eval on your own workload — that's the only answer that holds up. Read our guide on evaluating open-source models to understand what benchmarks matter, then use our lm-evaluation-harness blueprint to run 300+ standardized tests on FlexAI with no infra setup.

    Pricing

    Full Token Factory pricing

    Per-model rates and dedicated endpoints.

    Eval

    lm-evaluation-harness blueprint

    Run 300+ standardized benchmarks on any model with no infra setup.

    Startups

    FlexAI for Startups

    Credits and support for early-stage teams.