Batch API discounts

Guide · sources linked inline · 2026-10-26

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google offer batch APIs: you submit many requests at once and get results asynchronously (typically within 24 hours) for roughly 50% off standard prices (official pricing pages for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google).

Good fits

• Classifying or tagging a backlog of documents
• Nightly summarisation and report generation
• Evaluations and synthetic data

Poor fits

• Anything a user is waiting for (chat, autocomplete, agents)

Our calculator shows standard prices; for batch workloads, halve the result as an estimate and confirm on the provider page.

Next step → Estimate the standard cost first

Prices last checked 2026-10-26 against official sources · how we verify