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Summarize on a cheap model
Because summaries are short and the task is easy, a small model does the job at a fraction of the cost. Trim the input too. Compare models on the AI cost calculator.
The cost of summarizing documents or transcripts at scale.
Because summaries are short and the task is easy, a small model does the job at a fraction of the cost. Trim the input too. Compare models on the AI cost calculator.
Free AI summarization cost calculator — documents, length and model price to your monthly summarization bill.
Cost per document = input tokens × input price + summary tokens × output price. Summaries are short, so the input (the document you feed in) dominates — a smaller model handles most summarization well and far cheaper.
Usually not. Summarization is one of the tasks where small models perform close to frontier ones. Route it to a cheap model and save most of the cost.