AVAILABLE FOR WEB, FLUTTER & QA PROJECTS
How to use this tool
1. Specify Batch Job Volume
Enter the total number of records, documents, or requests in your batch processing job.
2. Input Average Token Sizing
Set expected input prompt tokens and output completion tokens per batch item.
3. Choose Foundation Model
Select OpenAI GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku, or GPT-4o mini.
4. Review Immediate Dollar Savings
Compare standard real-time API cost against 50% off Batch API pricing with completion turnaround estimates.
Formula or logic used
Asynchronous Batch API Discount Mathematics
Major LLM providers offer an automatic 50% discount across both input and output token rates when requests are submitted asynchronously with a 24-hour SLA.
Standard Real-time Cost: $\text{Cost}_{\text{sync}} = (\frac{N \times T_{\text{in}}}{10^6} \times P_{\text{in}}) + (\frac{N \times T_{\text{out}}}{10^6} \times P_{\text{out}})$Batch API Cost: $\text{Cost}_{\text{batch}} = \text{Cost}_{\text{sync}} \times 0.50$Net Dollar Savings: $\text{Savings ($)} = \text{Cost}_{\text{sync}} - \text{Cost}_{\text{batch}}$Batch SLA: Completed within 24 hours via JSONL file upload and webhook notification
Examples
Example 1: Enterprise Product Catalog Classification (500k products)
Processes half a million e-commerce SKU descriptions overnight for less than a hundred dollars.
Example 2: Financial Report Extraction & Sentiment (25k reports)
Saves $600 per weekly analytics run by shifting non-urgent SEC filing analysis to asynchronous batching.
Common use cases
Synthetic Data & Dataset Generation
Generate fine-tuning or evaluation datasets at half the cost of interactive inference.
Nightly Data Enrichment Pipelines
Classify incoming customer feedback, support transcripts, or scraped articles during off-peak hours.
Bulk PDF & Document Extraction
Digitize historical archives or contract repositories without triggering rate limits.
Embedding & Vector Index Backfills
Generate millions of embeddings asynchronously without impacting production traffic capacity.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Batch API and standard API?
Standard APIs execute requests synchronously in real time (sub-second response). Batch APIs allow you to submit thousands of requests in a JSONL file, processing them within 24 hours at a guaranteed 50% price discount.
Do Batch APIs have separate rate limits?
Yes! Batch APIs feature separate, substantially higher queue limits (often 10x-50x standard TPM/RPM quotas), allowing you to run massive jobs without getting blocked by HTTP 429 rate limit errors.
Can I cancel a running Batch job?
Yes. You can cancel a batch job at any time before completion. You are only billed for the individual requests that completed processing prior to cancellation.
How do I receive results from a Batch API?
You can poll the batch status endpoint or listen to a webhook. Once complete, you download the results file containing the output and metadata for each item.
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