A standard 250 pages document (~125,000 words / 165,000 tokens) costs $0.495 to ingest and $0.5025 to generate a comprehensive executive summary using Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
Feed the entire 250 pages document into context to extract fields, entities, or answer queries.
Ingest 250 pages and generate a structured 500-token executive summary with key takeaways.
Translate or reformat the entire 250 pages document into an equivalent length output.
| Model | Provider | Ingestion (250 pages) | Cached Ingestion | Summary Cost | Context Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Current) | anthropic | $0.495 | $0.0495 | $0.5025 | 200,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | openai | $0.80 | $0.08 | $0.815 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Cyber | openai | $2.00 | $0.20 | $2.038 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.5 Standard | openai | $0.80 | $0.08 | $0.815 | 512,000 |
| GPT-5.5 Pro | openai | $4.80 | $0.48 | $4.89 | 512,000 |
| o3-pro (Frontier Reasoning) | openai | $3.20 | $0.32 | $3.24 | 1,000,000 |
Assuming a standard single-spaced document with ~500 words per page, a 250 pages document contains approximately 125,000 words, which translates to roughly 165,000 tokens using Claude 3.5 Sonnet's tokenizer. Dense PDF tables, legal boilerplate, and OCR scans may increase this by 20–30%.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet has a context window of 200,000 tokens. A 250 pages document consumes only 82.50% of its total window, easily fitting in a single prompt without requiring chunking or vector search.
Ingesting the document and outputting a concise 500-token executive summary costs $0.5025. Using 24-hour async batch API queues drops this cost to $0.2513.
If your workflow repeatedly queries or chats with this same 250 pages document, prompt caching reduces subsequent turn input costs by up to 90% (to $0.0495 per turn instead of $0.495).