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Find repeated context, retry loops, routing waste, fallback waste, and oversized prompts before estimating exact costs.
AI Agent Tool
AI Agent Token Waste Calculator
Find out how much token budget your AI agent is burning on waste.
Last updated: May 2026
Your Inputs
Set your own values manually.
Official provider pricing
Last verified: 2026-05
Note: Cache-hit pricing available ($0.5/M input) — not included in default calculation.
GPT-5.5: $5/M input, $30/M output · 256,000 context
Count tokens from a sample request via your provider dashboard.
Results
Effective cost per 1M tokens
$10.00
80% input + 20% output weighted average
Total tokens per session
500,000
50000 × 10
Waste tokens per session
75,000
Estimated cost per session
$5.00
Estimated waste cost per session
$0.7500
Monthly waste cost (20 sessions/day)
$450.00
Approximate — adjust session frequency to match your usage.
Disclaimer:All cost estimates are approximate and based on public API pricing. Actual costs depend on your contract rate, usage patterns, and provider pricing changes. This tool does not constitute financial, legal, tax, or operational advice. Verify pricing with your AI provider's official pricing page.
Assumptions & Limitations
- Agent waste is estimated as mostly repeated input/context tokens. Default mix: 80% input, 20% output.
- All numbers are rough estimates — actual token usage varies by model, prompt structure, and task type.
- Linear cost scaling assumed — no volume discounts modeled.
- 'Waste' is user-estimated, not measured from actual agent traces.
- Token count is approximate; actual counts vary by model tokenizer.
- This tool provides directional estimates only — not billing reconciliation.