Does this include compute duration?

No. Add GB-second charges separately if your platform bills them.

What about free tiers?

Not modeled. Subtract free-tier allowances from your inputs if you have them.

Does it handle volume discounts?

No. Pricing is linear; add manual discounts if your vendor offers them.

Can I include OCR/AI add-ons?

Set a higher API per-page rate to reflect OCR or AI surcharges.

It helps benchmark vendors and internal pipelines against per-document pricing.

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PDF Splitting Cost Calculator

Estimate cloud costs to split/process PDFs, including API calls, storage, egress, and invocations.

Results

API/page cost: $3
Storage cost: $0
Egress cost: $0
Invocation cost: $0
Total cost: $3
Cost per page: $0

How to use this calculator

Enter total pages processed and per-1k page API price.
Add storage/egress GB and rates, plus invocation counts and pricing.
Review total cost and cost per page.

Inputs explained

API cost: Per 1,000 page processing price from your PDF service.
Invocation price: Serverless/Lambda/Cloud Functions cost per million requests.

How it works

API cost scales with pages / 1,000 × rate. Storage and egress multiply GB by their unit prices.

Invocation cost scales with calls / 1,000,000 × price per million. Totals are summed and divided by pages for cost per page.

Formula

API cost = (Pages ÷ 1,000) × API price per 1k pages
Storage cost = Storage GB × Storage $/GB
Egress cost = Egress GB × Egress $/GB
Invocation cost = Invocations ÷ 1,000,000 × Price per million
Total cost = API + Storage + Egress + Invocation
Cost per page = Total cost ÷ Pages

When to use it

Estimating PDF pipeline costs before launch.
Comparing vendors’ per-page pricing.
Checking if storage/egress dominates your cost stack.

Tips & cautions

If you cache outputs, reduce storage/egress inputs to match expected retention.
Include retries or parallelism in invocation counts for realistic estimates.
If egress is cross-region, increase the egress rate accordingly.
Does not include compute duration/GB-second charges or OCR CPU time.
Assumes linear pricing with no volume tiers.
Ignores free-tier allowances; subtract them manually if applicable.

Worked examples

5,000 pages, $0.50/1k pages, 0.1 GB storage @ $0.02/GB, 0.1 GB egress @ $0.09/GB, 500 invokes @ $0.20/million

API ≈ $2.50
Storage ≈ $0.002; Egress ≈ $0.009
Invocation ≈ $0.0001
Total ≈ $2.51; Cost/page ≈ $0.0005

Deep dive

Estimate PDF processing costs across API fees, storage, egress, and invocations.

Quickly see cost per page to budget your document pipeline.

FAQs

Does this include compute duration?: No. Add GB-second charges separately if your platform bills them.
What about free tiers?: Not modeled. Subtract free-tier allowances from your inputs if you have them.
Does it handle volume discounts?: No. Pricing is linear; add manual discounts if your vendor offers them.
Can I include OCR/AI add-ons?: Set a higher API per-page rate to reflect OCR or AI surcharges.
Why cost per page?: It helps benchmark vendors and internal pipelines against per-document pricing.

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