At 200 requests/user/day (totaling 300,000,000 queries/mo), running Data extraction & tagging on Groq LPU — Llama 3.3 70B costs $413,250.00 / month ($8.265 / user / mo).
Data extraction & tagging for a 50,000 active users (mid-market enterprise) audience means 10,000,000 requests per day on average, each carrying 2,000 input and 250 output tokens at a 20% cacheable share — so the effective per-request cost on Groq LPU — Llama 3.3 70B is $0.001378, of which $0.00/mo comes back from prompt caching. Per active user that's $8.265/mo — the number to hold against your pricing tier and gross margin. Charging at least $41.325/user/mo keeps gross margin at or above 80%.
Quick answer
For 50,000 Active Users, Data extraction & tagging on Groq LPU — Llama 3.3 70B is modeled at 300,000,000 requests per month, costing $413,250.00 per month or $8.265 per active user.
Method & trust
This projection combines the selected active-user tier, requests per user per day, input/output tokens per request, and the modeled cache share. It is an operating estimate, not a provider invoice; production traffic and retries should be measured against it.
Total expected API invoice for 50,000 Active Users generating 300,000,000 queries.
Direct inference cost per MAU to model your SaaS pricing tiers and gross margins.
Savings generated by exploiting 20% cache hits on prompt context.
| Model | Provider | Monthly Spend (50,000 Active Users) | Cost / User / Mo | Annual Spend | Context Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Groq LPU — Llama 3.3 70B (Current) | groq | $413,250.00 | $8.265 | $4,959,000.00 | 128,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | openai | $1,884,000.00 | $37.68 | $22,608,000.00 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.4 Workhorse | openai | $2,355,000.00 | $47.10 | $28,260,000.00 | 256,000 |
| o3-mini | openai | $924,000.00 | $18.48 | $11,088,000.00 | 200,000 |
| o4-mini | openai | $891,000.00 | $17.82 | $10,692,000.00 | 256,000 |
| o1-mini | openai | $924,000.00 | $18.48 | $11,088,000.00 | 128,000 |
At 200 queries per user/day with Groq LPU — Llama 3.3 70B, the estimated cost is $8.265 per monthly active user (MAU). Total monthly bill for 50,000 Active Users is $413,250.00.
Assuming a 20% cache hit rate on repeated system and context tokens, prompt caching saves $0.00 per month ($0.00/year) on Groq LPU — Llama 3.3 70B.
With a direct COGS of $8.265 per user/month on Groq LPU — Llama 3.3 70B, charging at least $41.325 per user/month ensures an 80%+ software gross margin.