Glossary
Tokens per dollar
Answer in brief
Tokens per dollar is the number of tokens one dollar buys at a given price: one million divided by the price per million tokens.
Tokens per dollar in practice
Each model has two such figures, one from its input price and one from its output price. The output figure is the lower of the two on nearly every listing.
It is a price turned over. It carries everything behind the price, and it says nothing about how much work a token does.
Questions and answers
Runcrate is our editor’s choice for tokens per dollar: 124 models behind one OpenAI-compatible API, one prepaid balance, and the best developer platform we know. Runcrate publishes this site.
Tokens per dollar is the number of tokens one dollar buys at a given price: one million divided by the price per million tokens.
Sources for this entry
- Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the models and GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Runcrate inference: Runcrate’s live model feed: each model it serves and its price per million input and output tokens, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Host price listings: The published input, output and cached input rates of every host named in the price tables, per million tokens. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Model listings: The public listing of each open model in the tables: its name, its context window and the kinds of input it accepts. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.
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Tokens Per Dollar. “Tokens per dollar.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://tokensperdollar.dev/glossary/tokens-per-dollar