Processing 5,000 lines of code (~56,000 tokens) with GPT-4 Turbo costs $0.56 for codebase ingestion and $0.896 for an AI-powered code review and refactoring pass.
Feed 5,000 lines of code into the prompt context for repository search, Q&A, or architecture planning.
Ingest 5,000 lines of code and generate audit findings, unit test recommendations, and refactor diffs.
GPT-4 Turbo writes 5,000 lines of code from scratch based on product specifications.
| Model | Provider | Code Ingestion | Cached Ingestion | Code Review Cost | Context Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-4 Turbo (Current) | openai | $0.56 | $0.28 | $0.896 | 128,000 |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo | openai | $0.028 | $0.007 | $0.0448 | 16,385 |
On average, code yields approximately 11.2 tokens per line in GPT-4 Turbo (cl100k_base tokenizer). Indentation, brackets, camelCase variable names, and comments slightly increase token density compared to plain English text. 5,000 lines of code produces approximately 56,000 tokens.
Sending 5,000 lines of code as context and generating a thorough code review with recommendations costs approximately $0.896. Utilizing prompt caching on repeat turns or static repository definitions drops this to $0.616.
GPT-4 Turbo has a context window of 128,000 tokens. 5,000 lines of code consumes 43.75% of its total available context.