#llm token cost

An n8n AI agent has two bills that behave nothing alike: a flat n8n platform fee and a per-run LLM token cost. Here is what each one comes to, with modeled per-run math across Claude, GPT, and Gemini, and the levers that actually lower the total.

Muhammad Qasim Hammad·July 12, 2026·8 min

A single LLM call costs a fraction of a cent, until you multiply by 10,000 runs a month. Here is the reproducible token math: chars over 4 for tokens, the input and output rates, and the per-run times volume multiply, with one support-reply run priced across five models.

Muhammad Qasim Hammad·July 7, 2026·8 min