Price per request
The number your CFO actually cares about
What is the price per request
Price per request is the total cost of a single API call — input tokens plus output tokens combined. It is computed from the per-million-token prices multiplied by the actual token counts in the request and response.
A typical request — 500 input tokens, 300 output tokens — costs fractions of a cent with most models. The number only becomes significant at scale: 1M requests per month at $0.003 each is $3,000.
Why it matters
Per-million-token pricing is how providers quote. Price per request is how engineers budget. sourc.dev tracks per-million prices because they are the standard unit of comparison. Your actual cost depends on your prompt design, output length, and call volume.
Verified March 2026 · Source: sourc.dev methodology