How do I use the OpenAI token counter accurately to estimate my monthly api costs before deploying a personal chatbot app to production
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
How do I use the OpenAI token counter accurately to estimate my monthly api costs before deploying a personal chatbot app to production
3 real searches · 1 real-search pass
site:platform.openai.com/docs token counting input output usage API pricing cached input tokens OpenAIGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
site:openai.com/api/pricing API pricing input output cached input tokens 2026Google ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
cookbook.openai.com token counting tiktoken chat completions usage estimateGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (3)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 3 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT3 real searches · gpt-6
site:platform.openai.com/docs token counting input output usage API pricing cached input tokens OpenAI Google ↗
site:openai.com/api/pricing API pricing input output cached input tokens 2026 Google ↗
cookbook.openai.com token counting tiktoken chat completions usage estimate Google ↗
- Open the official tokenizer · platform.openai.com
- Official GitHub repository · github.com
- Counting tokens · developers.openai.com
- Understanding and counting tokens · help.openai.com
- Pricing · developers.openai.com
- Reviewing API usage and costs · help-lb.openai.com
- Reviewing API usage and costs · help.openai.com
- OpenAI Usage Dashboard · platform.openai.com
Queries
3 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
site:platform.openai.com/docs token counting input output usage API pricing cached input tokens OpenAI OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Other / navigational | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
site:openai.com/api/pricing API pricing input output cached input tokens 2026 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Other / navigational | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
cookbook.openai.com token counting tiktoken chat completions usage estimate OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Other / navigational | — | — | 1x of 1 |