Name: Project Cost
Author: novanoticia

Project Cost Estimation

Estimate total API costs for multi-step projects and recurring workflows.

Gathering requirements

Ask the user about:

Task type: What will Claude do? (writing, analysis, coding, classification, etc.)
Volume: How many items/documents/requests?
Input size: Average size of each input (words, pages, or tokens)
Output size: Expected output length per request
Frequency: One-time or recurring? If recurring, how often?
Model preference: Which model tier? (default to Sonnet if unsure)

For each step in the workflow:

Estimate total API costs for multi-step projects and recurring workflows.

Ask the user about:

Task type: What will Claude do? (writing, analysis, coding, classification, etc.)
Volume: How many items/documents/requests?
Input size: Average size of each input (words, pages, or tokens)
Output size: Expected output length per request
Frequency: One-time or recurring? If recurring, how often?
Model preference: Which model tier? (default to Sonnet if unsure)

For each step in the workflow:

Step	Model	Requests	Input tok/req	Output tok/req	Cost
...	...	...	...	...	...
Total					$X.XX