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This Show HN aggregates input/output/cached pricing across 232 models from 14 vendors, with six workload calculators: general, chatbot with history, agent workflows, RAG split across indexing/retrieval/generation, voice bundling STT+LLM+TTS, and GPU rental. The agent calculator is the differentiator: most pricing tables ignore retry and tool-call amplification, which is exactly where real agent bills come from.
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