AI-Cost-CLI

Name: AI-Cost-CLI
Author: ufhouck

by ufhouckversion 1.1.0i★ –iRuns on your computer

Registry nameio.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

AI API cost calculator, recommender & MCP server. 29 models across text/image/video/audio.

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What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

Connection: Runs on your computer
Transport: stdio
Category: Design, images & audio

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
Runs on your computer with your user’s permissions (files, network, apps).
The registry lists no key to fill in.

You need

PyPIPython’s uv installed (for the uvx command)

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aicost-cli": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "aicost-cli"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add aicost-cli -- uvx aicost-cli

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aicost-cli": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "aicost-cli"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "aicost-cli": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "aicost-cli"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This one runs on your computer, and ChatGPT can only connect to servers on the internet. Pick another app.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.

Basic checksi

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Maker matches the repo
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Endpoint responds
This one runs on your computer; there is no internet endpoint
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Sign-in with OAuth
Runs on your computer and uses local settings instead
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No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
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Compared with others in Design, images & audioi

More stars than 0% of the other 2182 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 7% of the other 2182 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 2182 servers in this category

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Common questions

Is AI-Cost-CLI safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs on your computer. Your AI app starts it when needed, and data does not pass through the maker’s servers (unless it calls an online service itself).

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.1.0) reached the registry 7 months ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Python (uv) on your computer.

What can I use instead?

In the same category: Figma Context MCP, Claude Real Video, Figma MCP Server

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README from the maker

Open the README

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AI-Cost-CLI

A terminal-based calculator and recommendation engine for AI API costs. Supports multiple providers, local currency conversion, and automated pricing updates.

Preview: Direct vs. Aggregator Comparison

Compare the effective cost of using models directly vs. through gateways like OpenRouter, including platform fees.

                    Comparison: gpt-4o vs openrouter/gpt-4o

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Attribute ┃ gpt-4o ┃ openrouter/gpt-4o ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ Provider │ OpenAI │ OpenRouter │ ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Source │ Direct │ Aggregator │ ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Platform Fee │ 0.0% │ 5.5% │ ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Type │ text │ text │ ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Input Cost │ 111.4775 TRY (1M) │ 117.6088 TRY (1M) │ ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Output/Unit Cost │ 445.9100 TRY (1M) │ 470.4350 TRY (1M) │ └──────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘

Supported Models

Text Models

Model	Provider	Input/1M	Output/1M	Tags
Claude Opus 4.7	Anthropic	$5.00	$25.00	reasoning, coding, vision, agentic
GPT-5.5	OpenAI	$5.00	$30.00	multimodal, coding, agentic
GPT-5.5 Pro	OpenAI	$30.00	$180.00	precision, enterprise, agentic
Claude Sonnet 4.6	Anthropic	$3.00	$15.00	coding, fast, general
GPT-4o	OpenAI	$2.50	$10.00	reasoning, coding, vision
Gemini 3.1 Pro	Google	$2.00	$12.00	long-context, multimodal
DeepSeek R1	DeepSeek	$0.55	$2.19	reasoning, coding, smart
Gemini 2.5 Flash	Google	$0.30	$2.50	fast, reasoning, legacy
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite	Google	$0.25	$1.50	fast, cheap, agentic
DeepSeek V3	DeepSeek	$0.14	$0.28	general, coding, cheap

Image, Video & Audio Models

Model	Provider	Price	Type
Imagen 4 Fast	Google	$0.02/image	Image
GPT-Image-1	OpenAI	$0.02/image	Image
DALL-E 3	OpenAI	$0.04/image	Image
Imagen 4 Ultra	Google	$0.06/image	Image
Veo 3 Lite	Google	$0.05/sec	Video
Veo 3	Google	$0.40/sec	Video
Lyria 3 Clip	Google	$0.04/clip	Music
Lyria 3 Pro	Google	$0.08/song	Music
Whisper	OpenAI	$0.006/min	Speech-to-Text
TTS Standard	OpenAI	$15/1M chars	Text-to-Speech

Full list available via aicost list --currency USD

Features

Infrastructure Comparison: Compare Direct providers vs. Aggregators (OpenRouter) and Gateways (Portkey, LiteLLM, Martian).
Transparent Commissions: Automatically calculates platform fees (e.g., OpenRouter's 5.5% credit fee).
Direct Cost Calculation: Full breakdown of base costs and platform middle-layer fees.
Currency Conversion: Real-time conversion to local currencies (TRY, EUR, etc.) with offline fallback.
Automated Pricing: Weekly automated updates from official provider documentation.
MCP Server: Native support for AI agents (Cursor, Claude Desktop).

Installation

pip install aicost-cli

With MCP server support:

pip install aicost-cli[mcp]

Or from source:

git clone https://github.com/ufhouck/aicost.git

cd aicost pip install -e .

Usage

List All Models

aicost list --currency TRY

Calculate Cost

# Text model — token-based

aicost calc claude-opus-4.7 --input 1000000 --output 500000 --currency TRY

With platform fee breakdown (aggregators)

aicost calc openrouter/gpt-4o --input 1000000 --output 500000 --currency TRY

Output Example:

╭───────── Cost Calculation ──────────╮

│ Model: openrouter/gpt-4o │ │ Source: Aggregator │ │ │ │ Base Cost: 316.9976 TRY │ │ Platform Fee (5.5%): 17.4349 TRY │ │ │ │ Total Cost: 334.4325 TRY │ ╰─────────────────────────────────────╯

Compare Models

aicost compare claude-opus-4.7 gpt-5.5 --currency USD

Get Recommendations

aicost recommend "fast cheap coding" --currency USD

Sync Latest Pricing

aicost sync

MCP Server

Start the Model Context Protocol server for AI agent integration:

aicost mcp

Registries

PyPI
MCP Registry — io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli
Smithery.ai
Skills.sh

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to contribute, including pricing updates, bug reports, and code contributions.

Community

Code of Conduct
Security Policy
Privacy Policy
Changelog

License

MIT — see LICENSE for details. Developed by Ufuk Aydın.

AI-Cost-CLI

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Design, images & audioi

Common questions

Alternatives

Figma Context MCP

Claude Real Video

Figma MCP Server

README from the maker

AI-Cost-CLI

Preview: Direct vs. Aggregator Comparison

Supported Models

Text Models

Image, Video & Audio Models

Features

Installation

Usage

List All Models

Calculate Cost

With platform fee breakdown (aggregators)

Compare Models

Get Recommendations

Sync Latest Pricing

MCP Server

Registries

Contributing

Community

License