Show HN: Free OCR Cost Calculator – Estimate multi-provider LLM token costs

Category: devtools

Tags: ocr, cost-calculator, llm, pricing, document-extraction

Score: 3.7/10 (Innovation: 3, Technical: 3, Documentation: 6, Utility: 5)

A web-based calculator that estimates LLM OCR costs per document and per month across multiple vision model providers, using real token counts from sample documents or user uploads. It fills a practical niche for teams budgeting document extraction at scale, though it is essentially a pricing comparison tool rather than a novel system.

Target audience: backend developers, data engineers, ML engineers evaluating OCR providers

Repository: https://ocrbench.app/blog/llm-ocr-cost-calculator/

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